If you’re a dealer who specializes in pulp magazines, genre fiction, vintage paperbacks, series books, first edition hardcovers, original art, dime novels, men’s adventure, true crime, digest, or slick magazines, Big Little Books, B-movies, serials, and related collectibles, old-time-radio shows, or Golden, Silver, or Bronze Age comic books, then PulpFest is for you.
PulpFest, however, is not only a terrific venue to sell vintage material. It’s also a great place to market science fiction, mystery and detective fiction, adventure or western fiction, and more. The people who attend our convention love genre fiction and art, old and new.
Publishers such as Adventure House, Age of Aces, Murania Press, and New Texture do well selling their pulp reprints and related materials at PulpFest. So do resellers such as Mike Chomko, Books. Contemporary authors and publishers such as John Bruening, Charles F. Millhouse, Will Murray, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and Meteor House have likewise found PulpFest to be a great event for selling their contemporary and classic genre fiction. After all, our afternoon programming centers around contemporary genre fiction and art.
Our dealers’ room at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry is quite large. It accommodates about 150 six-foot tables. Island tables cost $100, while wall tables are $110. All dealers and their helpers are also required to purchase full weekend memberships. Advance memberships cost $40 if staying at the DoubleTree and $50 if staying elsewhere.
You can click here to download the convention’s 2025 registration form. For additional registration information, please click the “registration” button at the top of our website. Although wall tables are still listed on our registration form, many of them have been reserved. Please write to Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com for further details.
We will allow early-arriving dealers to begin setting up on Wednesday evening, August 6, from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. Absolutely no one who is not a dealer or dealer’s helper will be allowed into the dealers’ room during this time. No buying, selling, or trading will be permitted during this period. This time is meant to be used for set-up alone.
Dealers will also be able to set up on Thursday, August 7, starting at 8 a.m.
Our dealers’ room will be open daily from 9 am until 4:45 pm from August 7 – 9. It will also be open on Sunday, August 10, from 9 am until 1 pm. Dealers may begin packing up as soon as the room opens on Sunday.
All dealers will also be able to submit material to our Saturday Night Auction. Further details will soon be available.
The convention will be promoted through web-based advertising and postcard giveaways at bookstores and comic shops, collectibles and pop culture conventions, and other venues. PulpFest will also be advertising in Alter Ego, Men’s Adventure Quarterly, Paperback Parade, and other publications, including a few convention program books. We’ll also be listed on convention calendars such as Fancons.com and Upcoming Cons, as well as the event calendars at Pittsburgh City Paper, Positively Pittsburgh, and other local websites.
In mid-July, we’ll be posting about all of the dealers who will be selling at PulpFest 2025. Our marketing and programming director, Mike Chomko, will be putting these posts together and releasing them through our homepage and social media sites.
We recommend booking your hotel room as soon as possible. Last year, the hotel sold out two months before the start of the convention.
To reserve a room at the DoubleTree, please click 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.
Two complimentary breakfast coupons are included in our hotel’s nightly rate as well as free wifi and parking. Rest assured, PulpFest is very appreciative of all the dealers who help to reduce the convention’s substantial costs by staying at the DoubleTree and supporting our host hotel.
So what are you waiting for? Start planning now to attend PulpFest 2025 as a dealer and sell to hundreds of readers and collectors at the pop-culture center of the universe!
We look forward to seeing you from August 7 – 10 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, just nineteen miles north of Pittsburgh in Mars, Pennsylvania. Please join us at PulpFest 2025 — “Summer’s Amazing Pulp Con” — where your sales will simply be Fantastic!
For more information about becoming a PulpFest dealer, please contact Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com or by regular mail at 1272 Cheatham Way, Bellbrook, OH 45305. He’ll be happy to send you further details.
Our PulpFest 2025 web card has been adapted by PulpFest advertising director William Lampkin from Margaret Brundage’s original cover painting for the August 1935 number of Weird Tales, illustrating Paul Ernst’s “Doctor Satan.”
The main image on the back of our PulpFest 2025 postcard was adapted by William Lampkin from Jerome Rozen’s cover art for the September 1935 issue of The Mysterious Wu Fang. Our featured image was excerpted from Rozen’s original cover art for the March 1936 issue of The Mysterious Wu Fang.
We’ll be saluting the 90th anniversary of the “villain” pulps and much more at PulpFest 2025.
Please join us August 7 – 10 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry for PulpFest 2025, celebrating 53 years of summertime pulp cons.
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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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.
