PulpFest 2024 took place Thursday through Sunday, Aug. 1-3, in Mars, Pa., just outside of Pittsburgh. Below are links to the Pulp Tales podcast’s audio recordings of 13 sessions — over 10.5 hours — from PulpFest 2024.
Pulp presentations
- Black Mask: The Early Years
- Ed Hulse, publisher at Murania Press, and longtime collector Walker Martin discuss the early years of the classic detective pulp, Black Mask.
- Under Covers: The Spicy Detectives
- Author John Wooley and pulp historian and author Will Murray go “under covers” with the Spicy detectives.
- Cloaks & Daggers: Spy Heroes of the Pulps
- Collector and former intelligence consultant Tim King explores the cloak-and-dagger of the spy heroes in the pulp magazines.
- The Spicy Artists
- Artist and pulp historian David Saunders discusses eight artists — Adolphe Barreaux, Harry L. Parkhurst, Delos Palmer, William F. Soare, Norman Saunders, Hugh J. Ward, Allen Anderson, and Joseph Szokoli — who painted covers and drew illustrations for the Spicy pulps. David is Norman Saunders’ son and proprietor of the website A Field Guide to Wild American Pulp Artists.
- The Women of Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Cathy Wilbanks, vice president of operations at Edgar Rice Burroughs Incorporated, and longtime fan, Bernice Jones, discuss the women of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ stories. The panel was part of ERB Fest, held in conjunction with PulpFest 2024.
- The Spice Must Flow! Pulp Spice in Men’s Adventure Magazines
- Bob Deis and Wyatt Doyle, co-editors of the Men’s Adventure Library series, explore the spicy pulp elements present in one of the pulp magazines’ successors, the men’s adventure magazines.
- Black Mask: The Popular Years
- John Gunnison, proprietor at Adventure House, author John Wooley, and pulp collector and dealer John McMahan discuss how the classic detective pulp Black Mask changed after it was purchased by Popular Publications.
- Pulp Paleontology
- PulpFest’s Mike Chomko and artist Mark Schultz delve into pulp paleontology as they look at how dinosaurs were depicted in the pulp magazines. Schultz wrote and drew the award-winning comic-book series, Xenozoic Tales, and has illustrated Tarzan and other Edgar Rice Burroughs characters. The panel was part of ERB Fest, held in conjunction with PulpFest 2024.
- America’s Secret Service Ace
- Pulp collectors Tom Krabacher and Kurt Shoemaker profile Operator #5, America’s Secret Service Ace. Popular Publications introduced its Operator #5 pulp magazine 90 years ago, in April 1934.
- Bob Howard and the Spicy Adventurers
- Pulp collector Morgan Holmes looks at Robert E. Howard and other writers of adventure stories in the Spicy pulp magazines.
- Secrets, Crossovers, and the Full Account
- Keith Howell moderates “secrets, crossovers, and the full account,” a discussion of new projects in the works by Meteor House. On the panel are writers Paul Spiteri, Sean Lee Levin, and Win Scott Eckert. This presentation was part of FarmerCon, held in conjunction with PulpFest 2024.
- Burroughs, Farmer, and Pulp
- Author and PulpFest committee member Craig McDonald talks with award-winning artist Douglas C. Klauba about illustrating works by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Philip José Farmer. The pane was part of both ERB Fest and FarmerCon, which were held in conjunction with PulpFest 2024.
- The Hardboiled Fiction of Peter Paige
- Pulp historian John Wooley talks with Peter Wolson about Wolson’s father, fictioneer Morton Wolson. Morton Wolson wrote for the pulp magazines, including Black Mask and Dime Detective Magazine, under the name of Peter Paige.
ThePulp.Net’s coverage
- Yellowed Perils: PulpFest
- TPN editor William Lampkin attended PulpFest 2024 and posted daily photos from “the summer’s pulp convention.”
- ThePulp.Net’s Facebook page
- In addition to our regular posts, you’ll find updates from PulpFest here and be able to comment on them (if you’re a Facebook member — if not, you should still be able to read the page).
- ThePulp.Net’s Instagram feed
- Look at photos posted live from PulpFest on TPN’s Instagram feed. Search for #pulpfest2024.
