After more than a week, the Doc Con 2008 highlights video has been completed and posted.

I finally found time to edit down almost 30 minutes of video to 10 minutes.

The results are available below or on YouTube.



Feel free to visit YouTube and rate the video or add your comments. While you’re there, check out the highlight reels from the 2006 and 2007 Arizona Doc Cons.

The “Doc Savage Begins” video shown during the event (it turns up about 45 seconds into the 2008 reel) was posted on Yellowed Perils just after the con. It’s available on YouTube, also.

After you’ve watched these, start making plans to attend next year’s con, Doc Con XII. Keep an eye out here for an announcement regarding the date and location.

— William

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AOL, where ThePulp.Net began as .Pulp many years ago, has pulled the plug on its Web hosting service for members as of Oct. 31. What does that mean for pulp fans? A lot.

Currently gone are such terrific sites as Chris Kalb’s Doc Savage site, the 86th Floor; Jim Gould’s Doc Savage Collectibles site; Rich Harvey’s Bold Venture Press site; Mr. Kalb’s G-8 Web Base; and Lars Klores’ Weird Tales Web site, just to name a few.

Links to these and other AOL-based sites are still on various pages at ThePulp.Net, but will be disappearing over the next few weeks.

Meanwhile, if you had a pulp-related site on AOL, please drop us a note with details of what will become of it.

We’d really hate to see these sites gone forever.

— William

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We just concluded a terrific Doc Con XI a few hours ago. I'll post a wrap-up video in the next few days, as soon as I get the raw footage edited.

Meanwhile, here’s a six-minute video celebrating the 75th anniversary of the pulp debut of Doc Savage Magazine. Doc Con host Courtney Rogers compiled a chronology of events that coincided with Doc’s debut year, 1933. I had the easy job of putting it together into a short video.

This video led off the day’s Doc Con events. Hope you enjoy it.



— William

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Speaking of pulp conventions, I’m remiss for not mentioning this earlier: Doc Con 11 is coming up in less than a week, on Saturday, Nov. 1, at Courtney Rogers’ house in Glendale, Ariz. (just northeast of Phoenix).

What better way to fill you in than with an e-mail that this year’s host sent out recently:

Doc Con 11 is upon us! Doc Con 2008 t-shirts are in hand, as well as the official Doc Con 11 booklet The Big Book of Bronze. Admission to the con is $20, which will get you a shirt and a book.

The Big Book of Bronze is 74 pages and crammed full of articles and pictures and activites. For those not attending the con, copies can be purchased through lulu.com for $9.95 pus shipping.

Glendale, Ariz., is the locale this year, and just happens to be at my home. The con “officially” starts at 10 a.m. sharp, so you will want to arrive sometime between 9 and 10 a.m.

We have a mixture of new and old features. Since we are celebrating the 75th anniversary of Doc Savage magazine, we start the con with a magnificent video on Doc Savage Begins, brilliantly put together by William Lampkin (and Courtney Rogers - ed.). From there we have a presentation on Fred Pfeiffer and Len Leone, another unearthed Hidalgo Trading Company lost crate found by Glenn Hodges-Horner, an interactive Doc Savage Challenge created by Jay Ryan (it’s a stunner!), a James Bama favorite cover art poll (and maybe more interesting... least favorite covers!), a raffle, sale table and giveaway table, commemorative card signing, card signings for James Bama, Bob Larkin and Len Leone, and Bronze fellowship! Superamalgorgeous!

We had a very successful Bob Larkin print promotion where we purchased 75 autographed cover prints from Bob. We were going to present these at the con, but everyone was too eager to have them in their hands, so they were handed out at the last Doc Day! We will have a few available to purchase at the con, and if interest allows, may make another order from Bob. Bob's wife has cancer and our modest purchases have helped with some of their medical expenses.

Some of us plan to get together for dinner and a possible radio play recording at Jay Ryan's house on Halloween evening. Anyone interetsed in joining us, please let me know.

If you need Doc Con information, e-mail me at cmr007@netzero.net.

See you on Nov. 1!

Don’t forget to bring a Doc- or pulp-related item or two to trade if you’re interested in participating in the raffle.

I’ll echo what Courtney said: Hope to see you there!

— William

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Don’t know if you check out the Pulp.Events listing on ThePulp.Net’s front page (or many of the Pulp Companion pages). But if you have looked at it the past few days, you might have noticed the appearance of second PulpCon listing.

Shortly after the end of this year’s PulpCon, PulpCon 39 was announced for Aug. 14-16, 2009, in Dayton, Ohio. But apparently, things weren’t going as smoothly as they seemed.

There has been a growing disatisfaction with the steady decline in attendance at PulpCon the past few years. And there was a sharp dropoff this year, which worried many regular, longtime participants who saw this as a sign PulpCon was languishing while other pulp gatherings, particularly Windy City Con, were booming.

At the annual organizational meeting, members of the PulpCon committee discussed ways to better promote PulpCon, considered moving PulpCon to another city (since Dayton is relatively small and difficult to reach if you’re flying in), and, in general, how to stem the decline. According to folks present at the meeting, it was decided to investigate these options more, then make a decision on next year’s PulpCon.

Well, that’s when things went awry. While some committee members were exploring options, a unilateral decision was made by other committee members — PulpCon’s “old guard” — to commit PulpCon to the Dayton Convention Center for next year. Essentially keeping things at status quo.

So three members of the committee, who have been pushing to keep PulpCon relevent — Jack Cullers, Barry Traylor and Mike Chomko — decided to strike out on their own with a new, improved pulp convention. Earlier this month, the group settled on July 31-Aug. 2, 2009, in the more accessible Columbus, Ohio. The name? PulpCon 2009.

(Click here to read the official announcement.)

The PulpCon controversy has generated a lot of discussion on the PulpMags group at Yahoo, most of it positive in regard to PulpCon 2009. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.

I’ve been to only one PulpCon (in 2006), but I’ve paid my annual “membership” most years for the past decade or so, even when I haven't been able to attend. So I'm eager for PulpCon to succeed, in either form.

But if attendance at PulpCon is dropping as fast as the stock market these days, then something needs to change. Hopefully PulpCon 2009 will be what’s needed.

— William

Update: Since this was posted, the name of the new pulp convention has been changed to PulpFest. I've changed the logo and the name on the press release page, but left the entry otherwise intact. — William

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