PulpFest is a paradise for fans of pulp magazines, digests, vintage paperbacks, original artwork, and other collectibles. Collectors will also find first-edition hardcovers, men’s adventure and true crime magazines, series books, Big Little Books, B-movies, serials and their related paper collectibles, old-time radio shows, vintage comic books, and more in our spacious dealers’ room. PulpFest takes place at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania.
For those who simply like to read pulp or genre fiction, you’ll find science-fiction hardcovers and paperbacks, mysteries, adventure fiction, and countless pulp reprints from publishers such as Adventure House, Age of Aces, Meteor House, Stark House Press, and Steeger Books. Fans of contemporary genre fiction will get to meet the many popular writers who regularly attend PulpFest — Jim Beard, Christopher Paul Carey, Win Scott Eckert, Craig McDonald, Will Murray, and others — and buy directly from them. And don’t forget to ask for their autographs.
PulpFest 2025 will also have panels and presentations on genre fiction and art, publisher presentations, and more. Click the “programming” button at the top of our webpage to learn more.
And don’t forget that we’ll also be hosting both ERBFest 2025, FarmerCon XX, and Doc Con XXI. Your registration to PulpFest 2025 gets you into all of the conventions. That’s four conventions for the price of one!
Accommodating about 150 tables, our dealers’ room will be open on Thursday, August 7, for early-bird shopping from 9 am to 4:45 pm. If you stay at the DoubleTree, PulpFest is pleased to offer free early-bird privileges. It’s our way to thank loyal PulpFest attendees who reduce the convention’s costs by staying at our host hotel. If you stay elsewhere, you can still purchase early-bird privileges for an additional $30.
You can make a reservation at the DoubleTree by clicking the “Book a Room” button at the top of the PulpFest webpage. You can also reserve a room by calling 1-724-776-6900 or 855-610-8733. Be sure to mention PulpFest or use the code CDT91R to receive the special convention rate of $136 plus tax per night.
The PulpFest 2025 dealers’ room will also be open from 9 am to 4:45 pm on August 8 and 9, and from 9 am until 1 pm on Sunday, August 10. However, buying opportunities on Sunday will be limited as most dealers will be packing up.
And don’t forget about the PulpFest Saturday night auction. On Saturday evening, August 9, PulpFest will sell auction lots submitted by members with pulps, digest magazines, vintage books, fanzines, and more up for bid. We hope to have our catalog online by the end of May 2025. Be sure to bookmark pulpfest.com and watch for additional news about our auction.
If you read or collect pulps, genre fiction, books, vintage paperbacks or comic books, original artwork, or other pop culture collectibles, PulpFest is the place to be. We look forward to seeing you from August 7 – 10 at PulpFest 2025, summer’s Amazing pulp con.
To learn more about registering for PulpFest 2025, please click the “registration” button at the top of the PulpFest webpage.
To learn more about PulpFest, visit our YouTube Channel and check out Craig McDonald’s Make Your Plans Now for PulpFest 2025!
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If you’re a paper collector, wouldn’t you like to have a time machine to join the people in the photograph above? This late May 1942 newsstand was located in Southington, Connecticut. Featured are pulp magazines, comic books, and other publications largely dated June and July 1942.
The original black and white photograph was taken by Fenno Jacobs of the Office of War Information and posted to shorpy.com — the American Historical Photo archive — by Dave, the webmaster and co-owner of Shorpy, Inc. — on December 10, 2013. The image was later colorized by Avi A. Katz and posted to his blog, “Colorizing History,” on October 19, 2014. It is used here with permission.
Why not climb aboard the PulpFest 2025 time machine for a chance to purchase some of the pulp magazines and comic books displayed in our featured image? For more information on buying at PulpFest, please contact Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com or by regular mail at 1272 Cheatham Way, Bellbrook, OH 45305. He’ll be glad to send you a PulpFest 2025 registration form with further details about the convention when they are available in 2025.
Don’t forget to watch for our forthcoming posts on our PulpFest 2025 dealers. They’ll begin on July 14 and run through July 18.
Our final image was adapted by William Lampkin from Walter Baumhofer’s cover for the April 1935 issue of Doc Savage Magazine, illustrating Lester Dent’s “The Spook Legion.”
Leslie Silberberg is a writer and popular culture enthusiast who began posting on our website in 2022. She enjoys the science fiction pulps, particularly the work of such leading female writers as Leigh Brackett, Claire Winger Harris, Zenna Henderson, Judith Merril, C. L. Moore, Margaret St. Clair, Wilmar H. Shiras, Francis Stevens, and Leslie F. Stone — many thanks to Ms. Silberberg for her contributions to pulpfest.com.
