Today’s the first full day of PulpFest 2025. I plan on posting photos to PulpFest to ThePulp.Net’s Instagram feed throughout the day, so check back if there aren’t too many images showing below.
There’s still plenty of time for you to get to Mars, Penn. (just north of Pittsburgh). PulpFest lasts through Sunday, but Saturday night is really the last of the real action at the pulp convention. While the dealer room will be open Sunday morning, most of the dealers will be packing up by then.
Dealers began setting up last night (with a strictly enforced “no selling” policy in place). Some are still arriving and setting up this morning, but doors opened at 9 a.m. for early-bird shopping.
The annual pizza dinner at PulpFest begins around 5 this evening, and then shortly before 7 p.m., PulpFest chair Jack Cullers kicks off the evening of presentations with a brief welcome. That’s when I’ll start posting regularly.
Closing out the night will be the Bronze Bash, marking the return of Doc Con after eight years, this time at PulpFest.
Watch below for photographs and captions from Thursday evening’s events. The images appear shortly after they have been posted, so check back for updates throughout the day.
Please feel free to comment at the bottom of this post, or like or share the images on Instagram or other social media. I’m using the hashtag #pulpfest2025 on my photos from the convention; I encourage you to do the same.
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Tom Krabacher, Kurt Shoemaker, and Ed Hulse discuss the Masters of “Adventure” at PulpFest 2025. #pulpmags #pulpfest2025 @pulpfest #pf2501
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Jim Beard explores Tarzan: Lord of the Merchandising Jungle as part of ERBFest at PulpFest 2025. #pulpmags #pulpfest2025 @pulpfest #pf2501 #erbfest
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Tim King and Will Murray profile the Masters of Villainy, on the 90th anniversary of the first of the villain pulps. #pulpmags #pulpfest2025 @pulpfest #pf2501
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Ed Hulse discusses Edgar Wallace, one of PulpFest 2025’s Masters of Adventure, on the 150th anniversary of his birth. #pulpmags #pulpfest2025 @pulpfest #pf2501
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Cathy Wilbanks and Bernice Jones open PulpFest 2025 with a presentation of “Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Ideal Man.” #pulpmags #pulpfest2025 @pulpfest #pf2501 #erbfest
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@EdgarRiceBurroughsInc is expected to start preorders for its John Carter of Mars action figure (and Woola, just out of picture) in September. #pulpmags #pulpfest2025 @pulpfest #pf2501 #erbfest
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Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze, in bronze, the sculpture by Randy Bowen. #pulpmags #pulpfest2025 @pulpfest #pf2501 #doccon
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Here’s the original painting for the cover of “Wings” (September 1939) and a copy of the pulp. #pulpmags #pulpfest2025 @pulpfest #pf2501
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Here’s a detail of Don Hewitt’s cover painting for “Complete Stories” (Dec. 1, 1931) illustrating Raoul Whitfield’s story “Red Smoke.” #pulpmags #pulpfest2025 @pulpfest #pf2501
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Collectors are checking out the pulps in the dealers’ room at PulpFest 2025. #pulpmags #pulpfest2025 @pulpfest #pf2501
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The dealers’ room is officially open for PulpFest 2025. Plenty of pulps and pulp-related items for sale. #pulpmags #pulpfest2025 @pulpfest #pf2501
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There’s still plenty of time for you to get to Mars, Penn. (just north of Pittsburgh). PulpFest lasts through Sunday, but Saturday night is really the last of the real action at the pulp convention. While the dealer room will be open Sunday morning, most of the dealers will be packing up by then.
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