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| 33rd
Annual Paperback Books Show
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2012! Valley Inn & Conference Center 10621 Sepulveda Blvd Mission Hills, CA 91345 818-891-1771 Admission - $5 Free Parking Website: BlackAce.net |
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| Gotham Pulp Collectors
Club - April 14,
2012! Gotham Pulp Collectors Club is a club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area. It meets the 2nd Saturday of every month. Name: Gotham Pulp Collectors Club Time: 1-4 PM Place: Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy Street, Manhattan (WestVillage) Contact: Mark Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com |
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2012 Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention
April 27 - 29, 2012! PULPS - PAPERBACKS - ORIGINAL ART - MOVIE MEMORABILIA OLD TIME RADIO - SCIENCE FICTION - POPULAR CULTURE - GOOD OLD STUFF!
CELEBRATING EDGAR
RICE BURROUGHS AND
THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF TARZAN OF THE APES‼ MEMBERSHIPS: Memberships are $35 for all three days, $25 for Friday only, $25 for Saturday only, and $10 for Sunday only (but see the HOTEL section for details on how to get a $10 refund on your membership!). We are also offering Early Bird Admission for non-dealers for $60, which is a three day membership which allows entry to the dealer room on Friday at 10 a.m. (which is one hour after dealer setup begins and two hours before the con generally opens to the public). Ages 13 & under are free. Please note that we can now accept payments online through paypal (account register@windycitypulpandpaper.com). DEALER INFO: Dealer setup begins Friday at 8:30 a.m. – the dealer room is open to the public from 11:00 a.m. - 5 p.m. Friday (9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. for Early Bid Admission), 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Sunday. For dealers, tables are 6’ long. Each table includes: 1 tablecloth and 2 chairs. Wall tables are $90 and island tables are $80. The dealer room will have around 130 tables. Each dealer and dealer’s helper must also buy a regular 3 day membership ($35). PROGRAM BOOK: All attendees will receive a program book, containing pulp articles and reprints. To advertise in the program book, rates are: full page ads $70 (4 1/8" x 6.75"), half page $40 (4 1/8" x 3 3/8"), business card size $25 (3.25" x 2"). The deadline for submitting and paying for ads is March 15, 2012. Please contact Tom Roberts at tom.roberts2@comcast.net for ad and other program book matters (other than payment). ART SHOW: We will once again be hosting an art show displaying original pulp and paperback art. For the eighth year in a row, the art show is sponsored by Dan Zimmer and the fine folks at Illustration magazine. If you have any art you’d like to make available for display in the art show, please contact us. The art show hours will be posted to the website when they are set. AUCTIONS: We will have 2 auctions, Friday and Saturday nights. PULP FILM FEST: Our Pulp Film Fest shows old movies based on pulp stories. More info, including the schedule, will be posted on the website closer to the con. The Pulp Film Fest is organized by Ed Hulse and sponsored by Blood ‘N’ Thunder magazine. WEBSITE: www.windycitypulpandpaper.com is the con’s website. We’ll be posting updates to it periodically up until the time of the con, so please check it for the most recent information. Also be sure to check out and join our Facebook page! CON SUITE: Our con suite will operate from Thursday night (come pick up your badges) until late Saturday night/early Sunday morning – stop by and grab a drink and some munchies, while chatting about our favorite hobby! HOTEL: For our twelfth show, for the fifth year in a row we’re at the Westin Lombard, in the Western suburbs of Chicago. The Westin is located about 20 minutes SW of O’Hare Airport and about a half hour West of Midway Airport. Room rates are $109/night, same as the last 2 years (to get the con rate, you must book by 5:00 p.m. Central time on April 5, 2012!). Parking is free. The hotel is in the midst of a shopping and restaurant corridor – it’s adjacent (within walking distance) to Yorktown Mall and about a mile from Oak Brook Shopping Center. For those with families, it’s also only 7 miles from the Brookfield Zoo, one of the nation’s top zoos. Movie theaters are also a short walk away. And if you like to gamble, the Aurora River Boat is about 10 miles away. If you are flying in and not renting a car, please check the website for details on various cab companies and shuttle services that offer fixed price transportation to and from the hotel. Please mention the con when booking rooms. Also, since it greatly benefits the convention to have folks stay at the Westin during the show, if you attend the con and stay at the Westin, we will refund you $10 of your membership at the show (limit 2 refunds per hotel room). PAY BY: Paypal (account register@windycitypulpandpaper.com) or check payable to Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention, LLC. Send checks to: 13 Spring Lane, Barrington Hills, IL 60010) |
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| Gotham Pulp Collectors
Club - May 12,
2012! Gotham Pulp Collectors Club is a club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area. It meets the 2nd Saturday of every month. Name: Gotham Pulp Collectors Club Time: 1-4 PM Place: Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy Street, Manhattan (WestVillage) Contact: Mark Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com |
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E. Howard Days - June 8-9, 2012!
Robert E. Howard Days 2012 is happening June 8th and 9th in Cross Plains, Texas, and we’d surely like to see you there! This annual festival to celebrate the life and work of Ol’ Two-Gun Bob Howard features the gathering of Howard fans from all over the world at the very spot where he created all of his marvelous work. Project Pride of Cross Plains, The Robert E. Howard Foundation and the Robert E. Howard United Press Association join forces each June to present two days of REH fellowship and everyone is invited. Come and enjoy tours of the Howard House and the town of Cross Plains, a Bus Tour, a Banquet and a Barbeque, panels, a silent auction, swap meet, a commemorative postal cancellation, plus some special events – and best of all, the opportunity to gather with fellow Howard fans to celebrate his life and legacy. This years is the 80th anniversary of the birth of REH’s most famous creation, Conan of Cimmeria, and we’re having a party! While nobody knows the words to Happy Birthday in the original Cimmerian tongue, there will be cake! (Without the 80 candles – too much of a fire hazard!) So make plans to join us in Cross Plains June 8th and 9th. I’m in the process of getting the fully detailed schedule together, but all of the usual fun activities continue this year. Here’s a short schedule so you can start planning. Hope to see you there! Visit the link
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| Gotham Pulp Collectors
Club - June 9,
2012! Gotham Pulp Collectors Club is a club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area. It meets the 2nd Saturday of every month. Name: Gotham Pulp Collectors Club Time: 1-4 PM Place: Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy Street, Manhattan (WestVillage) Contact: Mark Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com |
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| Gotham Pulp Collectors
Club - July 14,
2012! Gotham Pulp Collectors Club is a club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area. It meets the 2nd Saturday of every month. Name: Gotham Pulp Collectors Club Time: 1-4 PM Place: Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy Street, Manhattan (WestVillage) Contact: Mark Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com |
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Thursday, August 9th
through Sunday, August 12th
You can now book a room at the Hyatt Regency Columbus from the PulpFest home page. We now have a special link created by the Hyatt Regency where you'll be able to make a reservation at the special convention rate of $109 per night. You'll find instructions on our home page at www.pulpfest.com. You can also book a room at the Hyatt Regency Columbus by calling 1-614-463-1234. Please be sure to mention PulpFest in order to get the special convention rate. See you in August! 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of two of Edgar Rice Burroughs' most famous creations: Tarzan of the Apes and John Carter of Mars. While Tarzan is the better known of the two, John Carter came first, appearing in the novel, "Under the Moons of Mars," published in the February 1912 issue of THE ALL-STORY, a pulp magazine published by the Munsey Company. In August of this year, PulpFest will celebrate "100 Years of John Carter" with panels, presentations, and more. Please visit www.pulpfest.com for further details. And don't forget, Disney's major motion picture, JOHN CARTER, will be premiering in movie theaters on March 9th. PulpFest 2012 is very pleased to announce that award-winning science-fiction writer Mike Resnick will be its guest of honor. Winner of five Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award, Mike first became involved in science fiction through the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs. With this year being the hundredth anniversary of the start of Burroughs’ writing career, it is fitting that our guest of honor is an author who, early in his career, "wanted nothing more than to write books in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs." A recognized authority on the works of Burroughs, Mike is currently editing, with Bob Garcia, THE WORLDS OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS, an anthology of mostly original stories inspired by Burroughs and his creations. It will be published by Baen Books. For further information about our special guest, please visit the PulpFest website. Over the last ten days, the PulpFest website has been updated, bringing it into line for the 2012 convention that will take place from Thursday, August 9th through Sunday, August 12th. You can register for the convention, book a room at the hotel, read about our guest of honor, look at our programming schedule, and much, much more. Please visit www.pulpfest.com and check it out. There are still some minor tasks that need to be done, largely pertaining to archiving the posts dealing with last year's event, but the site is now good to go. While you're here, PulpFest now has its own twitter account. Go to https://twitter.com/ and become one of our followers. |
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Some of the guests announced to date are: James Darren, Singer and
Actor
Tall, good-looking James Darren was a student of acting coach Stella Adler and made his name in the 1950s in a series of teenage-themed films. A better actor than most of his contemporary teenage heartthrobs, which is probably why he was the only actor who appeared in all three Gidget movies, Gidget (1959), Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) and Gidget Goes to Rome (1963). It was in 1965 that James Darren was approach to co-star in a television series, The Time Tunnel, which has since become a pop culture classic. Robert Colbert from The Time Tunnel and Maverick Robert Colbert became an enduring television icon when he got the starring leads on Maverick and The Time Tunnel, two classic televisions series that can still be seen in reruns today. Ron Ely, Doc Savage and Television’s Tarzan The 15th screen Tarzan (if you don’t count Gordon Griffith) was to have played a Tarzan impersonator in a projected Mike Henry television show, which never materialized. He had been tested 14 months earlier when Henry got the part. In 1966, Ron Ely signed to play the lead role of Tarzan (a.k.a. Lord Greystoke), in a successful television series that ran two full seasons. Already well educated and fed up with civilization, Tarzan returned to the jungle and, more-or-less assisted by chimpanzee Cheetah and orphan boy Jai, waged war against poachers and other bad guys. Guest stars included Julie Harris, Jock Mahoney, James Earl Jones, Ethel Merman, Simon Oakland and Diana Ross, among others. The series was so successful he even starred in two movies made from that series in 1970. Ely claims that he refused to use a stunt double in his vine-swinging or animal fights, and as a result he was often injured on the set. It has been noted by Tarzan fans that Ely’s physical appearance and dialogue were much more like those of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ character than could be said for any other Tarzan. In 1975, Ron Ely won the sought-after role of Doc Savage for George Pal’s 1975 motion-picture of the same name. While fans of the pulp magazines don’t feel the movie lives up to the expectations of the printed page, it’s still a fun film. During the late thirties, Doc Savage and his five Amazing Adventurers are sucked into the mystery of Doc’s father disappearing in the wilds of South America. The maniacal Captain Seas tries to thwart them at every turn as they travel to the country of Hidalgo to investigate Doc’s father’s death and uncover a vast horde of Incan gold. It was reported that a sequel had been filmed in the Lake Tahoe area simultaneously with the principal photography for the first Doc Savage movie, but the sequel was never completed because of the poor box office for that first film. George Pal, famous for The Time Machine (1960) and War of the Worlds (1953), passed away shortly after this movie was released in theaters, possibly another reason why a sequel was never completed. |
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| Gotham Pulp Collectors
Club - August 11,
2012! Gotham Pulp Collectors Club is a club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area. It meets the 2nd Saturday of every month. Name: Gotham Pulp Collectors Club Time: 1-4 PM Place: Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy Street, Manhattan (WestVillage) Contact: Mark Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com |
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| DUM-DUM - August 15-18,
2012! The 2012 DUM-DUM will be held in Tarzana, CA. |
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| Gotham Pulp Collectors
Club - September 8,
2012! Gotham Pulp Collectors Club is a club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area. It meets the 2nd Saturday of every month. Name: Gotham Pulp Collectors Club Time: 1-4 PM Place: Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy Street, Manhattan (WestVillage) Contact: Mark Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com |
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| The Friends of Old Time Radio Convention - October 12-13, 2012! Greetings fans of The Friends of Old Time Radio Convention, 1976-2011. I'm writing with the best possible news about the future of old time radio fandom in the metro-New York/New Jersey area. There will be a convention in Newark this fall - if enough of you are willing to participate. Were you one of the people stalking the halls during that final Friends of Old Time Radio Convention, reveling in the big crowd, exuberant atmosphere and great community? One of the ones who thought "it would be a shame if this went away forever," or "I hope I get a chance to spend time with these people again." Well, your wishes have been granted. Celebrating Audio Theater - Old & New, a brand-new convention, will take place October 12-13, 2012 at the same old Ramada Plaza Hotel in Newark, NJ that was home to Friends of Old Time Radio all those years. It will feature live old time radio recreations as well as performances of modern audio drama, and a mix of panels and historical presentations familiar to FOTR attendees. Please see our website above for a more complete description of what we're up to. Also please see the "Buy Your Tickets" page and associated PayPal buttons and do so. CATON is a brand new, volunteer, non-profit organization. FOTR had a healthy cash cushion saved after 36 years. CATON has a few contributions from the initial committee members and that's it. If we don't sell at least 200 dinner tickets by July 1, 2012, the event won't happen. That's the minimum service for the banquet hall at the hotel. Last year's huge, enthusiastic, FOTR crowd was inspirational. We know many of you came because it was the "last" event. We hope that enough of you realized once you came that this community - and the art form that inspired it - is worth saving and perpetuating. Please join us. Since this list is comprised of FOTR veterans, I'll predict some of the Q&A but of course, write back with any questions of your own. Q. Who's in charge here? A. Our overall chairperson is Steven M. Lewis of The Gotham Radio Players. Sean Dougherty (me) is handling marketing, Craig Wichman, a long-time FOTR actor, is handling guest relations. Maggie Thompson has been acting as secretary and Jill Schissel has been handling the incorporation/legal issues. Q. What about Jay Hickerson? A. Jay is comfortably retired in Florida and while he has given us great advice about how to get the event going, he is not actively involved in CATON. Also, for anyone who hadn't heard, he suffered a bad fall just after the last FOTR convention. He is fully healed and doing great. Q. Which special guests are you inviting? A. It's March so the guest list hasn't started to take shape. We expect to draw on the New York-city area actors who have participated in FOTR in recent years. Arthur Anderson of The Mercury Theater and Let's Pretend has agreed to be our honorary chairman for the first event but beyond him it's too early to tell. Unless we get an overwhelming (and fast) reaction in terms of early ticket sales, it is unlikely we will be able to invite special guests from outside the area but FOTR itself went years before adding West Coast guests. We are committed to a mix of professional casts as well as providing a forum for talented amateur groups, similar to FOTR. Q. So what are you going to do? A. We are soliciting proposals now via the website for presentations and performances at CATON. If you are a historian, actor, director, author, or other person with something to add, please check the site, fill out the form and e-mail us and we'll let you know. I'd expect to see many familiar faces on stage as well as some new ones as we incorporate the best of modern audio drama into the program. Q. What about the dealers? A. We're reaching out and seeing who would be interested in selling at this event. Radio Spirits has already contacted us and expressed interest. Beyond that, well, buy your tickets. If we can tell dealers that pre-sales are strong, we'll have more of them. Q. Why is the new convention only two days instead of four? A. The first FOTR convention was only a single day. Committing to a minimum attendance for a banquet on Thursday night seemed a little too ambitious for a start-up event. Q. How many performances do you expect to have? A. We discussed that number at the last meeting and depending on how long we want to go in the evening it could be as many as ten in the two days. Keep watching the "2012 Program" page on the website. Right now, it's empty but it will fill in as we evaluate proposals (as of last Thursday, we already had two to evaluate). Q. Will there be a new e-mail list for the new event to which I can also subscribe? A. Yes, probably but frankly there isn't one right now. It's likely the next message to this list will be about that. In the meantime, our website, twitter feed, the old Friends of Old Time Radio Convention Facebook page, and the new CelebratingAudioTheaterOldandNew Facebook page, are the best ways to get frequent updates. Q. How Can I help? A. Forward this e-mail to anyone you think might be interested. I'm also putting together a canned "this is Celebrating Audio Theater Old & New" paragraph that bloggers can paste into their sites. Write me for it, it should be ready by tonight or tomorrow. Please find "CelebratingAudioTheaterOldandNew" on Facebook and like us. Please following the @CATOANCON twitter feed. We know, CATON was taken, so we needed to add the "a." It's not ideal. There is a "donate" button on the left side of our website's home page. If you are feeling especially helpful, please donate to us. Of course, the best donation would be to buy your tickets now and trust us to deliver the show. Ticket purchases will be refunded if the convention doesn't occur for any reason. Donations will be returned only if we didn't need the money for something we couldn't cancel. If you want us to be able to invite Chuck McCann or Shirley Mitchell from the West Coast, the donate button is really good way to help make that happen. We also still need volunteers for a lot of the behind-the-scenes activity at the event. If you think you have some time between now and October to help us with marketing, logistics, web design, mailing list administration, event staffing or anything similar, please let us know and we WILL find something for you to do. Please contact me with any questions. See you - everyone together now - in Newark in October! Sean Dougherty Celebrating Audio Theater Old & New celebratingaudiotheater@gmail.com seandd@optonline.net 201-739-2541 |
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| Arizona Doc Con 2012
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October 20, 2012! Doc Con 15 will be held Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012 in Glendale, Ariz., at the Comfort Suites located at 9824 W Camelback Rd, Glendale, AZ, US, 85305. Call to reserve your room (623) 271-9005 and mention "Doc Savage Convention" for our reduced group rate. Things kick off the night before with dinner and an evening activity, so plan on being there Friday, Oct. 19, and all day Saturday, Oct. 20. There's usually a breakfast/early lunch on Sunday. If you haven't checked out the teaser video yet, head over to YouTube or look for the Arizona Doc Con page on Facebook. |
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| Gotham Pulp Collectors
Club - October 13,
2012! Gotham Pulp Collectors Club is a club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area. It meets the 2nd Saturday of every month. Name: Gotham Pulp Collectors Club Time: 1-4 PM Place: Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy Street, Manhattan (WestVillage) Contact: Mark Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com |
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| Hamilton/Brackett
Day - October ??, 2012! Organizer Don Sutton and the Kinsman Historical Society have selected October ??, 2012 as the date for the re-named "Hamilton/Brackett Day." Haffner Press will send and post updates as they become available, but the approach this year is to acknowledge the efforts of *both* Ed & Leigh. The date has been moved from the middle of summer to the third Saturday in October. This year there will be a mini Star Wars Convention. The 501 Garrison was invited and a number of vendors have shown interest. There will be a costume contest for the kids. There will also be a world premier of their personal slide collection, a toast a their gravesite and much more. Edmond Hamilton & Leigh Brackett Day has a Facebook page that will be updated with new information as it becomes available. |
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| Gotham Pulp Collectors
Club - November 10,
2012! Gotham Pulp Collectors Club is a club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area. It meets the 2nd Saturday of every month. Name: Gotham Pulp Collectors Club Time: 1-4 PM Place: Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy Street, Manhattan (WestVillage) Contact: Mark Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com |
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| Pulp Adventurecon
2012 - To be announced! The date for Pulp Adventurecon 2011 is November 5th, 2011. Same location as always: Ramada Inn, 1083 Route 206, Bordentown, NJ 08505. Visit the Bold Venture Press website for the latest details. |
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| Gotham Pulp Collectors
Club - December 8,
2012! Gotham Pulp Collectors Club is a club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area. It meets the 2nd Saturday of every month. Name: Gotham Pulp Collectors Club Time: 1-4 PM Place: Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy Street, Manhattan (WestVillage) Contact: Mark Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com |
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| The 24th Annual New York City
Collectible Paperback & Pulp Fiction Expo - To be announced! The 24th Annual New York City Collectible Paperback & Pulp Fiction Expo will be held TBD A limited number of 6 and 8 foot tables available, but email or call for tables asap, as they go fast. Call Gary at 718-646-6126 after 5pm EST. Admission: Preview (8am) $10; General (9am - 3pm) $5; After 3pm FREE |
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| 54th Michigan Antiquarian
Book & Paper Show Lansing Center 333 E. Michigan Ave. Lansing, Michigan $4.50 admission Children 13 and under free The Antiquarian Book & Paper Show is the largest book and paper show in the Midwest, averaging over 70 exhibitors and one million old, rare, and collectible book and paper items for sale. |
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| ECOF 2011
Annual gathering of the Burroughs Bibliophiles to celebrate the life and works of the Master of Fantasy Adventure: Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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| ThrillerFest 11 - 2012! ITW's annual celebration of the thriller world is the largest event of its kind, a meeting place for authors, readers, budding writers, and publishing industry professionals. For 2012, |
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The 2013 Annual Edgar Rice Burroughs Chain
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