Welcome to the PulpFest 2025 Auction page. Here you will find our illustrated 2025 auction catalog and the results of this year’s auction. We had a total of 270 lots in this year’s auction, including 40+ so-called “half-lots.”
The auction was held on Saturday evening, August 9, beginning at 9 pm.
Included in the auction was a nice run of the large-sized Argosy from 1941 – 42; over 50 issues of New Worlds Science Fiction, long the leading British science fiction magazine; 26 early issues of Weird Tales in good to very good condition; the first two issues of The Pulpster from its years as the Pulpcon program book; a complete set of Bantam’s Doc Savage paperbacks; several Arkham House first editions; a nice selection of Shadow pulps; the first appearance of Peter Pan; the ultra-rare LA Bantam Book #13, Children’s Favorite Stories; a run of Who’s Who in Baseball from the 1930s; artwork by Michael Kaluta; and much more.
The highlights of the auction were two lots of Street & Smith’s People’s Magazine. Each of these lots sold for amounts far north of $1500.
You’ll find the results of our auction within the photographic catalog at the bottom of this page.
Maneuvering Through Our Photo Catalog
Click an image for an enlarged view. Click the right side (or arrow) of the enlarged image to proceed to the next image. Click the left side to return to a previous image. To start a slideshow, click “play slideshow” at the end of each description. You can stop the slideshow at any time by clicking “pause slideshow.” To return to the auction page, click the close button at the bottom right of the image box, or somewhere outside the image.
To download a PDF of our PulpFest 2025 Auction Catalog, please click HERE. To download a PDF of our PulpFest 2025 Auction Additions Catalog, please click HERE.
Consigning Material to the PulpFest 2026 Auction
Do you have a piece of art or a pulp collection you want to sell? Wouldn’t it be nice to see your collection stay with people who appreciate what you or your departed loved one has enjoyed? Why not have PulpFest sell it through our annual auction? This year’s PulpFest Auction is scheduled for August 9.
PulpFest welcomes large and small collections, from a single item to thousands of books, pulps, comics, digests, fanzines, and related collectibles. If you’re ready to sell that collection, consider using the PulpFest auction. You don’t have to be a member of the convention to participate. If what you have is somehow related to the pulp magazines of the early twentieth century and related pop culture collectibles, we’re interested!
Although we will accept any submissions up through the day of the 2026 PulpFest auction, you are encouraged to submit your lots before the start of the convention. This will allow PulpFest to list your lots — including photographs and descriptions — on our online auction page. Online bids will be accepted for all lots that have been submitted by 11:59 pm on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. Any material submitted after that date will not be added to the online bidding page.
If you’re interested in consigning to our 2026 auction or have further questions, please write to PulpFest auction coordinator, Mike Chomko, at mike@pulpfest.com or 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA 18104.
Our featured image is excerpted from Rafael DeSoto’s cover art for the January 1934 issue of Ned Pines’s The Phantom Detective, published by Standard Magazines. PulpFest advertising director, William Lampkin, adapted this image for the PulpFest auction banner, utilized at the convention.
Our lead image is Peoples Favorite Magazine for April 10, 1919, with cover art by P. J. Monahan. Street & Smith launched People’s Magazine with its July 1906 number. A companion to The Popular Magazine, in its early years, it emphasized detective fiction rather than the adventure stories found in other general fiction magazines. Beginning in 1915, it became the regular home for H. Bedford-Jones’ adventures of John Solomon.
PulpFest 2025 Auction Photo Catalog
The following abbreviations have been used in the captions:
DJ = DJ, ed = edition, pr = printing, HC = hardcover, SC = softcover, PB = paperback, SF = Science Fiction, FC = front cover, BC = back cover, VG = Very Good, NF = Near Fine
All grades are based on an eyeball examination, mostly of photographs.
Descriptions of the auction lots can also be found in our PDF catalog.
