Our Dealers
Thank you to the following exhibitors who filled our dealers’ room at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Convention Center with collectible pulp magazines and digests, vintage paperbacks, first edition hardcovers and series books, original art, B-movies and serials, collectible comic books and more. Many of them will be coming to the Hyatt Regency Columbus in August 2012. Please support them when you attend PulpFest 2012.
Adventure House/John Gunnison
John Gunnison will be offering his usual extensive stock of pulp magazines as well as the many pulp reprints and reference works he has published under the Adventure House banner. For more info, please visit John’s website at http://adventurehouse.com/.
Airship 27/Ron Fortier & Rob Davis
Headed by Ron Fortier and Rob Davis, Airship 27 is a leading producer of new pulp fiction. Starring the classic heroes of yesteryear–from the Green Lama and Sherlock Holmes to Ravenwood and the Masked Rider–you’ll find plenty of thrills by visiting the Hangar 27 website.
Jim and Walter Albert
These collecting brothers from Arkansas and Pennsylvania will have pulps, paperbacks, hardcovers, fanzines, and more that will be pleasing to just about everyone who will be attending PulpFest 2011. Only The Shadow knows what you’ll unearth!
Battered Silicon/George Vanderburgh
George has published over 600 books, including a wide variety of detective fiction as well as his highly regarded Lost Treasures of the Pulps series. Along with Robert Weinberg, he’s also the editor of Arkham House Publications. His website is at www.batteredbox.com/.
Black Dog Books/Tom Roberts
Tom Roberts and his aide-de-camp, Gene Christie, will be peddling a wide variety of pulp reprints produced under the Black Dog Books emblem. From hero pulps to weird menace to classic adventure yarns, Black Dog publishes them all. You’ll find more information at Black Dog Books.
Nick Certo
A dealer since 1987, Nick always manages to unearth lots of rare and desirable items. A resident of New York, he brings choice selections of pulps and related items to the conventions at which he exhibits. Please visit his AbeBooks.com website.
Mike Chomko
Last year’s Munsey Award winner, Mike Chomko, is known as the "one-stop seller for your pulp reprint and reference needs." At PulpFest 2011, he’ll have his usual wide selection of such material. Please visit the Mike Chomko, Books website and download a copy of his latest catalog for a look at his inventory.
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Winner of the Lamont Award and the author of Old Magazines: Identification and Value Guide and other fine reference books, Richard will be offering a wide variety of pulps, slick magazines, hardcovers, paperbacks, and original artwork. He has been a book dealer for the last forty years.
Jack Cullers
If you’re looking for pulps and out-of-print paperbacks, pulp reprints or hardbound fiction and non-fiction, find your way to Jack’s table. He always has a wide variety of such material. You just may come across something you’ve been questing after for many years.
Curious Bookshop/Ray Walsh
As usual, Ray will be offering a broad array of paper collectibles–pulps, paperbacks, original artwork, collectible hardcovers, vintage comic books, and more. He’ll be bringing it all from East Lansing, Michigan, home to the Curious Book Shop and Classicon for over forty years.
Dark Star Books/Gary Diedriech
Located about an hour from Columbus in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Dark Star will be offering a variety of material including pulps, digests, and collectible hardcovers and paperbacks. Through the end of August, used hardcovers are 30% off at their store just east of Dayton!
Dave’s Comic Vault/David White
Located in suburban Chicago, Dave has been collecting for 35 years and selling since 2006, mostly through ebay. At PulpFest he will have many science fiction pulps as well as some hero and horror. Dave’s Comic Vault will also have fanzines, paperbacks, digests, and pulp reprints.
Dearly Departed Books/S. & L. Edwards
Scott and Linda Edwards of Alliance, Ohio have been antiquarian booksellers since 1978, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, Western and adventure first editions, vintage paperbacks and pulps. Visit the Dearly Departed Books website for further details.
Keith Dilbone
Keith will be selling Avon MMM, Avon Fantasy Readers, digests, British science fiction, and paperbacks from all the collectable publishers, both keys and commons. He’ll also be looking for foreign science fiction, fantasy and horror paperbacks to buy or trade.
Doug Ellis and Deb Fulton
Two of the founders of the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention, Doug and Deb will be offering a wide selection of general fiction, science-fiction and other pulps as well as original art and other collectibles. They’ll also have copies of Pulp Vault #14, the first issue in fifteen years.
Bob Flowers
This good-natured collector from Illinois usually has a little bit of everything including pulps, paperbacks, fanzines, and related material. His offerings come from a wide range of genres–hero, detective, adventure, science fiction, and Western. If you’re looking for variety, stop at Bob’s tables.
Girasol Collectables/Neil & Leigh Mechem
Girasol will be selling pulp magazines, their own line of quality pulp replicas, pulp reprints, including their own Pulp Doubles, books about pulps and other related items. To browse their impressive assortment of offerings, please visit their well-designed website at Girasol Collectables.
Martin Grams, Jr.
A widely published old time radio and television expert, Martin carries a wide selection of classic DVDs, along with books and magazines. He’ll also have copies of his newest book for sale–The Shadow: The History and Mystery of the Radio Program–as well as his popular studies of The Green Hornet and The Twilight Zone.
Art Hackathorn
A specialist in detective and Western pulps, Art will also have some collectible hardcovers and paperbacks as well as movie and Western magazines. He’ll also be carrying some digests from the mystery and Western genres. Art is one of the leading dealers in these fields.
Haffner Press/Stephen Haffner
Stephen Haffner will be offering his handsomely illustrated hardcovers featuring the work of Leigh Brackett, Edmond Hamilton, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, and Jack Williamson. Visit haffnerpress.com for a look at the publisher’s coming releases, hopefully available at PulpFest.
Mark Halegua
In addition to selling a small selection of pulp magazines, Mark offers CDs featuring thousands of pulp cover images through Pulps 1st. Mark also writes about pulp for Comic Related and All Pulp. He will have several neo-pulp fiction stories appear later this year.
Rick Hall
Scouring flea markets and antique shows up and down the East Coast, Rick rescues pulps for the collections of his fellows in the pulp community. From Ace Detective to Zoom and everything in between, you may find a great deal amongst Rick’s "found" pulps.
Rodger Harris
Coming from Indiana, Rodger will be selling movie memorabilia and Big Little Books, plus a variety of pulps including Westerns, science fiction, and titles such as Argosy and Adventure. A previous attendee of PulpFest, this will be Rodger’s first time as a dealer at our convention.
Paul Herman
This Connecticut-based dealer and collector exhibits at many pulp and paperback conventions. He offers a wide variety of material including pulps, paperbacks, and vintage digests. He is particularly strong in the mystery and detective fields, turning up many scarce items in these genres.
Mark Hickman
This Ohio dealer will have pulps, including a variety of science fiction magazines and hero pulps, as well as comics and original artwork from pulps, comics, digests, and paperbacks–a little bit of everything. Mark’s father was the late Lynn Hickman, publisher of The Pulp Era.
Hooked on Books/Deb & Wayne Keil
Selling books since 1975, the Keils are well known at Midwestern book and paper shows. Specializing in vintage mystery and science fiction, their inventory includes collectible paperbacks, digests, magazines, pulps, and hardcovers. For additional details, please visit Hooked on Books.
Ed Hulse
In addition to his award-winning fanzine Blood ‘n’ Thunder, Ed will be displaying a selection of highly collectible pulps, paperbacks, hardcovers, and fanzines. Ed is well-known as a purveyor of high-grade pulp magazines.
Don Hutchison
The winner of the Lamont Award in 1990, this highly regarded author and editor from Toronto, Canada usually offers a wide variety of material for sale at his table. Expect to see some pulps and pulp reprints as well as solid reference works and some of Don’s own published materials.
John McMahan
John hails from Oklahoma where he has long been active as a fan and dealer. At PulpFest 2011, John will be selling pulps, books, comics, original art, movie posters, and more. He trades on ebay as mybckpages.
Main St. Music/David Schmidt
From Waterloo, IL, David will be bringing pulps and digests, collectible paperbacks, original artwork, Arkham House books, vintage comics, and other paper ephemera. Visit Main Street Music for more information about this fine Midwestern dealer of paper collectibles.
Thomas Martin
Coming from western Ohio, Tom will be selling detective, hero, and science fiction pulps; an extensive selection of crime digests such as Guilty and Trapped; and a wide assortment of collectible paperbacks, hardcovers, magazines, Big Little Books and other material.
Walker Martin
A collector whose activity dates to the early days of pulp fandom, Walker has owned practically every pulp at least once. A resident of New Jersey, he’ll be selling pulps, original artwork, and one-of-a-kind canceled checks from the files of Munsey and Popular.
Meteor House/Michael Croteau
Mike Croteau of Meteor House will be offering back issues of Farmerphile, select items from the Philip Jose Farmer estate sale, the first two volumes of The Worlds of Philip Jose Farmer, and more. You can find further details at The Official Philip Jose Farmer Home Page.
Will Murray
The author of over fifty novels and assorted books, including The Duende History of The Shadow Magazine, will have copies available for sale of his new Doc Savage novel, The Desert Demons, as well as Writings in Bronze, a collection of his Doc Savage non-fiction.
Phil Nelson
This personable dealer from Waverly, Ohio will be armed with a wide variety of pulps, from Argosy and Detective Fiction Weekly to Doc Savage and Amazing Stories. He’ll also have paperbacks, comics and other items. He’s a fan of North-West Stories and Top-Notch.
Off-Trail Publications/John Locke
California’s John Locke will be selling a variety of excellent and often rare pulp reprints that generally include extensive original research into pulp history, all published under the Off-Trail Publications imprint. For pulp fiction off the beaten track, visit John’s table.
Rick Payne
Rick Payne has collected 1930s and 1940s pop culture memorabilia for over forty years. He’s bringing vintage posters, premiums, publications, and character memorabilia. If Depression-era kids liked it, chances are he’ll have it. His ebay store is dadric’s attic.
Art Phillips
Art will be selling his collection that has been forty years in the making. Visit him and shop for hardcovers, paperbacks, pulp magazines and digests that span over 100 years of science fiction, action, adventure, mystery, menace, masks, crooks, con-men, capes and heroes.
Craig Poole
A resident of northern Virginia, Craig has been attending pulp conventions for years. He will have several pieces of vintage original cover art, representing an eclectic mix of genres, but with science fiction the main focus. He will have paperback cover art and, perhaps, a few digest or pulp cover paintings.
Laurie Powers
This Los Angeles resident is the creator of the popular Laurie’s Wild West blog. She will be selling copies of the new collection of her grandfather Paul Powers’ Western stories, Riding the Pulp Trail. She’ll also have Pulp Writer, Paul’s memoir about being a pulp fiction writer during the Great Depression.
R & B Enterprises/Brendan & Robin Faulkner
R & B Enterprises has been in the popular culture business for over twenty years. Located in Danbury, Connecticut, they’ll have a wide selection of pulps, vintage magazines, movie and television classics, paperbacks, digests, and related material. See their website for more info.
Wayne Reinagel
Writer/illustrator Wayne Reinagel is president and publisher of Knightraven Studios. He will be offering his critically acclaimed "Steampulp" novels: Pulp Heroes–More Than Mortal, Pulp Heroes–Khan Dynasty (nominated for four separate best novel awards in 2011) and Modern Marvels–Viktoriana.
Joseph Saine
A full-time antique toy dealer from Rossford, Ohio by day and an avid paperback reader and collector by night. Joe is thinning his collection/accumulation of paperbacks. He also has an attic-fresh load of over 250 great condition Big Little Books that haven’t seen the light of day since the thirties and more.
Sanctum Books/Anthony Tollin
Tony will be selling all of his fine pulp reprints–The Avenger, Doc Savage, The Shadow, and The Whisperer–four of the great pulp heroes. He’ll also have artwork by George and Jerome Rozen and Bob Powell for sale. Please visit the Sanctum Books website for details about his latest publications.
David Saunders
The creator of the Munsey Award, David is an expert on pulp artists. He will be selling autographed copies of his biographies of pulp artists, including his father, Norman Saunders, and Spicy artist H. J. Ward. Visit David’s website at www.pulpartists.com for brief, illustrated biographies of many pulp artists.
Jerry Schattenburg
This knowledgeable and respected dealer and collector from the Kansas City area sells pulps from a wide range of genres. At PulpFest, he’ll also have offerings of science-fiction and fantasy first editions, original art, and more.
Gary Shaheen
This dealer/collector from New York will have a selection of Shadow and other hero and detective pulps–some in higher grades–plus early Amazing Stories and other science fiction and fantasy titles. He may also have collectible hardcovers and vintage comic books.
Tom Skemp
Specializing in horror and science fiction, is back for a second time as a PulpFest dealer. A resident of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Tom will be selling collectible hardcovers and several hundred paperbacks as well as some limited and British editions. It’s great to have you back again, Tom.
Tim’s Books/Tim Paxton
Tim Paxton of Grand Rapids, Michigan specializes in paperbacks and small press, first edition hardcovers, dealing mainly in high-grade science fiction, fantasy and horror as well as mysteries and pulp-related material. Check out the Tim’s Books website at AbeBooks.com.
Barry Traylor
Although he won’t have a table at the convention, Barry is the "go-to" guy when it comes to the PulpFest auctions. If you have any questions concerning our auctions, please write to barry@pulpfest.com or visit the "Auctions" page under "Programming."
Randy Vanderbeek
A pulp collector for about forty years, Randy is from Kalamazoo, Michigan. She will be bringing hundreds of pulp magazines from all genres for sale or trade. Of course, the more she sells, the more she’ll be able to buy from the many fine dealers who will be attending PulpFest 2011.
Jon Wehler
This personable dealer and collector offers pulps, original art, and other paper collectibles. He’ll also have lots of vintage paperbacks from many different genres. Based in Ohio, he exhibits at a variety of book and paper shows throughout the Midwest. And he’s a nice guy.
Wild Cat Books/Ron Hanna
The award-winning publisher of cutting-edge fiction in the tradition of the pulps, Ron offers everything from science fiction and fantasy to hero pulp and horror under the Wild Cat Books imprint. He’ll also have pulps, paperbacks, comics, monster magazines, and more.
Yammering Magpie/Peter Marchionna
A classic film dealer from the Chicago area offering some of the best and rarest movies from the silent era, pre-code, film noir, Westerns, and cult movies. Visit the Magpie at PulpFest for a taste of classic cinema.
Many thanks to these and a few sellers who asked not to be listed on our website for making PulpFest 2011 a great success.
