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Your narrator, the Leader
The Leader attended his favorite show of year, Pulpfest, 3-5 August 2023 held at the Doubletree hotel in Pittsburg-Cranberry, Pennsylvania. The Leader always enjoys talking to his dealer friends Tom Skemp, Tom Martin, Mark Hickman, Ray Walsh, Tim Paxton, John Gunnison and Craig Poole. Some of his favorite people at Pulpfest are the coterie of aficionados associated with Men's Adventure magazines: Bob Deis, Wyatt Doyle, Eric Blackburn, Innes Weir and of course Jacqueline Pollen.

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2 August 2023 in Mars, Pennsylvania
Lewis Forro with the Mars Saucer
I arrived at the Doubletree hotel in Pittsburgh-Cranberry late in the afternoon but there were no Pulpfest attendees there yet so I drove a few more miles to the nearby town of Mars. I had taken photos of me with the famous flying saucer in the middle of town two years ago but I wanted to take another one from a different angle.
Dealer Setup Day 3 August 2023
Tom Skemp
I bought several magazines and fanzines from Tom last year but he had a fair amount of new material this year for me to look over. I did buy from Tom 20 issues of Gary Carter's excellent fanzine from the 1990s, The Comic Book Marketplace and 10 issues of late 1940s, early 1950s Robert Harrison cheesecake magazines like Wink and Whisper that are rare in high grade. Also four issues of an oversize film magazine named Show from the early 1970s I had never seen before. Sadly, Tom decided he didn't want to sell the fanzine at right, Graphic Story World #12 from the 1970s which was a an issue devoted entirely to the artist Basil Wolverton. I'll give him a year to think about it and try again. I spent so much time with Tom I didn't have time to take any photos of the other dealers setting up except for Tom and Mark Hickman.
Mark Hickman
Here's Mark with a copy of the venerable science fiction pulp Astounding Science Fiction from 1941 that contains the first appearance of Isaac Asimov's most famous short story, Nightfall.
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