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| Front view of the dealer’s room. |
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| Rear view of the dealer’s room. |
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| Veteran pulp original art collector and dealer Craig Poole from Northern Virginia had a nice display of original pulp cover art. Several of his paintings included the pulp or digest magazine the painting was used for. Craig said he might move to Richmond, Virginia soon and if he does I told him I want to come up from Virginia Beach and visit him. I told him I was looking for the original painting for the Ace paperback book The Gates Of Creation from the mid 1960s illustrated by Gray Morrow. Craig told me he collected Ace cover original paintings and so if he found it he would have to keep it for himself. |
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| Here is Craig with a copy of the science fiction digest Galaxy October 1966. The original painting is right behind him. |
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| Comic book dealer Brian Livingston from Cincinnati, Ohio showing off a nice copy of the fist issue of the pulp magazine Marvel Science Stories August 1938. Asking price is a reasonable $150. This pulp’s publisher was Martin Goodman best known for being the publisher of Timely / Atlas / Marvel comics from the late 1930s up through the late 1960s. Goodman didn’t like science fiction pulps or comics but he kept this pulp going off and on under different names and size formats up through the mid 1950s. Some of the Marvel sci-fi pulps had early art by Marvel Comics star artist Jack Kirby. |
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| Mark Hickman of Wauseon, Ohio has been been around the pulp collecting hobby a long time. His father Lynn Hickman published the first fanzine, Pulp Era, about pulps. Mark is asking $200 for this September 1930 issue of the Clayton publishing era Astounding Stories of Super Science and $100 for this really rare British digest magazine Temple of the Dead from 1951. |
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| Now here’s an interesting piece of pulp collecting history: a letter from Pulpcon organizer Ed Kessell from 1971 to Mark’s father asking him to attend the first upcoming Pulpcon in Dayton, Ohio. I used to see frequent ads in the early 1970s advertising Pulpcon in the comic book tabloid newspaper The Buyer’s Guide To Comic Fandom. I always wanted to go but Ohio was just to far away for a kid age 18 living in Savannah, Georgia. At least that grown-up kid at age 61 now living in Virginia finally made it in 2015. |
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| David’s an English professor from Pensacola, Florida with an interest in popular culture and not just the usual mainstream literary stuff all our English teachers made us read in school. He wrote this hardcover book All Man about Men’s Adventure magazines which the usual English teacher would just sneer at, so good for David for bucking the system. This book was poorly marketed in the comic book world which I’m more familiar with as it wasn’t solicited for sale in the Diamond Distributor’s catalog Previews, so I never it knew it existed until I saw David selling it at this show. It’s currently $30 on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble but David was selling them for $20 with his autograph thrown in for free. I bought one of course. |
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| Doug Simms of Columbus, Ohio had this softcover copy of Tales of Terror from 2000 about EC comic books which I had never seen before. I bought the deluxe hardcover copy from dealer David Hinson at a comic book convention in North Carolina years ago and I never knew there was a softcover. |
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| Jon Arfstrom of Anoka, Minnesota, about age 90, is the last man on Earth who drew painted covers for the legendary pulp magazine Weird Tales. He drew a few covers in the early 1950s shortly before the magazine went out of business. He gave a talk at one of the nightly panel discussions. The young man on his left asking him the questions is pulp expert David Saunders, son of the famous pulp artist Norman Saunders. |
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| Jon Arfstrom with his 1989 watercolor painting of horror writer Robert Bloch and a 1990 acrylic painting of an even more famous horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft. I talked with Mr. Arfstrom briefly about some other Weird Tales cover artists that I was familiar with: Virgil Finlay, Margaret Brundage and Matt Fox. He was familiar with all of them of course but I don’t think he ever met any of them. He had said in his panel talk the night before that he lived in far away Minnesota and mailed his cover paintings for Weird Tales to their office in New York. |
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| I’ve been reading Robert Bloch off an since the 1960s and regret not being able to afford this painting of him by Mr. Arfstrom. Bloch is best known as the author of Psycho which was made into the Alfred Hitchcock movie. He also wrote two 1960s Star Trek TV episodes. Check out two of his most famous short stories “That Hell-Bound Train” and “Yours Truly Jack The Ripper.” |
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| John Gunnison of Silver Springs, Maryland is a big mover and shaker in the pulp collecting hobby. Here is with an expensive copy of the September 1930 Weird Tales; expensive because a Robert E. Howard story is featured on the cover. John is the owner of the pulp reprint book company Adventure House. I last time I had seen John was in the late 1990s when he was set up selling pulps at one of the shows in the Baltimore area. |
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| Ray Walsh is the long time owner of the Curious Book Shop in East Lansing, Michigan. Here is surrounded by his huge assortment of pulps and rare books. The Joan of Arc poster he’s holding is an incredibly rare advertising poster published by Bantam Books to be displayed in book stores in the old days. I didn’t remember Ray until I saw his name on his business card. I had set up as a dealer at one of his pulp and paperback shows in Lansing circa 1997. |
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| Tim Paxton of Grand Rapids, Michigan had a selection of high grade rare hardcover books. This nice condition first edition of The Mask of Cthulhu, 1958 by August Derleth from the legendary Arkham House publishing company can be yours for only $350. I enjoyed comparing notes with Tim on some of our favorite science fiction authors like Isaac Asimov, Clifford D. Simak and so forth. I told him I wanted a high grade copy of Simak’s City and he said he would try to get one for me. |
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