PulpFest 2026 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 home, admission is free to all. However, buying opportunities will be extremely limited as the vast majority of our dealers will be packing up their displays throughout the morning.
Although there are no programming events scheduled for Sunday, our dealers’ room will be open from 9 am until 1 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. Unfortunately, most of them will be packing up to head home.
If you have not been able to attend PulpFest in 2026, start making plans now to join next year’s gathering. As always, expect a terrific dealers’ room and superb programming. And don’t forget, your PulpFest membership will include memberships in Doc Con 2027, FarmerCon XXII, and The Shadow Con 2027. That’s four conventions for the one price!
Please join us from August 5 to 8 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania, for a salute to “Pulp Heroes of the Air” and a lot more at PulpFest 2027. Check out our post scheduled for tomorrow to learn more.
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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 2027. Please bring your friends!
Your PulpFest Organizing Committee — Mike Chomko, Jack Cullers, Sally Cullers, Bill Lampkin, Craig McDonald, David and Regie Powell, and Barry Traylor.
Our featured image is excerpted from Mike Hinge’s original art for the August 1973 issue of Amazing Stories. A native of New Zealand, Hinge emigrated to the United States in 1959, finding work as an advertising artist. A leading science fiction fan in his homeland, he renewed his relationship with fandom after moving to New York City in 1966. Ted White, the former editor of Amazing Stories who passed away in May of this year, used Hinge’s psychedelic cover art to help identify Amazing as the “hippie” science-fiction magazine. In addition to his work for Ted White, Mike Hinge also created cover art for Algol, Analog, and other magazines and books.
Our lead image was adapted by William Lampkin from Alex Schomburg’s cover art for the February 1964 issue of Amazing Stories. Schomburg, who is best known for creating more than 500 covers for comic books, painted twenty covers for Amazing Stories, with all but two of them contributed between 1960 and 1965. At PulpFest 2026, we saluted the 100th anniversary of Amazing Stories and more.
