PulpFest 2023 is drawing to a close, but there is still time to get in on the action. With most of our dealers getting ready to head for home, admission is free to all. However, buying opportunities will be limited as the vast majority of our dealers will be packing up their displays.
Although there are no programming events scheduled for Sunday, our dealers’ room will be open from 9 am until 1:30 pm. Located in the Grand Ballroom of the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, our dealers’ room will feature exhibitors selling and trading pulp magazines and related materials, digests, vintage paperbacks, contemporary genre fiction and pulp reprints, men’s adventure and true crime magazines, first-edition hardcovers, series books, dime novels, original art, Big Little Books, B-movies, serials and related paper collectibles, old-time-radio shows, and Golden and Silver Age as well as pulp-related comic books and games.
If you have not been able to attend PulpFest in 2023, start making your plans right now to join next year’s gathering. As always, expect a terrific dealers’ room and superb programming.
Please join us from August 1 – 4 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania for a celebration of “Spice, Spies, and Shaw.”
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Many thanks to all of you who attended this year’s convention. We hope that you enjoyed yourself and plan to return next year for PulpFest 2024. Please bring your friends!
Your PulpFest Organizing Committee — Mike Chomko, Jack Cullers, Sally Cullers, Bill Lampkin, Sara Light-Waller, Craig McDonald, & Barry Traylor.
Our main advertising image for PulpFest 2023 was adapted by PulpFest advertising director William Lampkin from The Phantom Detective for January 1934, with cover by Rafael M. DeSoto, and Thrilling Sports for Winter 1947, with cover by Rudolph Belarski. Additional artwork was provided by Mark Wheatley. The image promoted our salute to “Chilling Sports,” a celebration of the centennials of Weird Tales and Sport Story Magazine.
In addition to our “Chilling Sports” salute, PulpFest 2023 also celebrated the ninetieth anniversary of the great pulp heroes of 1933, particularly Robert E. Howard’s Conan, Doc Savage, and that “Master of Men” known as The Spider. Our featured image is excerpted from Rafael DeSoto’s cover painting for the October 1941 issue of The Spider.
Visit us tomorrow to learn more about the theme of next year’s PulpFest and be sure to bookmark pulpfest.com to stay informed about the world of pulp.
