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This year's Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 5-7, 2024 at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL) is now less than three months away! As usual, we'll have some great auctions Friday and Saturday nights. Here's the second issue of The Shadow -- one of several early Shadow pulps that will be in the Saturday night auction session.

This year's Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 5-7, 2024 at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL) is now three months away! As usual, we'll have some great auctions Friday and Saturday nights. Here's one of several early Doc Savage pulps (the second issue) that will be in the Saturday night auction session.

This year's Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 5-7, 2024 at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL) is now three months away! As usual, we'll have some great auctions Friday and Saturday nights. Here's one of several early Doc Savage pulps (the second issue) that will be in the Saturday night auction session.

I'm sorry, I wasn't clear.  The image you posted from the WC website was the one that sold at WC.

What I meant was that the Heritage copy was not the one that sold at WC.

On 12/16/2023 at 5:26 PM, davet75 said:

Then somebody should tell Windy City that they posted the wrong image, since I got directly from their 2023 auction website.  Check the link yourself:

https://windycitypulpandpaper.com/home/?page_id=37

 

 

Now that 2024 is here, it's time to start thinking about this year's Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 5-7, 2024 at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL). All 180 dealer tables have sold out. As usual, we'll have some great auctions Friday and Saturday nights.

Details can be found at our website:

www.windycitypulpandpaper.com

Here's one of the highlights that will be in the Friday night auction session at this year's convention -- Weird Tales December 1932, featuring the first appearance of Conan.

Now that 2024 is here, it's time to start thinking about this year's Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 5-7, 2024 at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL). All 180 dealer tables have sold out. As usual, we'll have some great auctions Friday and Saturday nights. Here's one of the highlights that will be in the Friday night auction session at this year's convention -- Weird Tales December 1932, featuring the first appearance of Conan.

On 12/16/2023 at 3:17 PM, davet75 said:

I know that there is a lot of negotiation space from many angles.   I have been offered a zero percent seller's premium by Heritage for a specific item i own.  And i'm a tiny fish in a huge ocean of buyers and sellers.   

I was checking the pics from the Windy City auction and it looks like a different copy than the one sold by Heritage.  The Windy city copy was nicer,  but I don't know the provenance, and it was not mentioned in the description. See below.  Considering the Windy City auction was April 2023, it still wouldn't have been a bad quick turnaround.  

This was not the Windy City copy that we sold in April 2023 at our auction.  

I'll be bringing roughly 1,000 pulps for sale with me to this year's Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 21-23, 2023 at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center). Among them will be this one -- a gorgeous copy of the February 1936 issue of Spicy Mystery, with a classic H.J. Ward cover. I'll hope to see some of you there!

On 4/13/2023 at 1:27 PM, Comics-n-ERB said:

Do you have a list of the vendors available?

The 22nd annual Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention will be taking place next week!  The convention will take place on April 21-23, 2023 at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, Illinois.  As usual, we will have auctions on both Friday (April 21) and Saturday (April 22) nights, and this year’s auctions will truly be fantastic. 

The Friday night auction features 200 lots of material from the estate of famed collector Robert Weinberg, while the Saturday night auction features material from several consignors.  And additional lots will be added to the Saturday night auction at the convention, to include material consigned there by convention attendees. 

Among the highlights in this year’s auctions are: 

- Numerous issues of Weird Tales in both Friday night's and Saturday night's auctions, including the first Conan story and the famous batwoman cover issue, many in gorgeous condition 

- A rare letter from Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright to one of Weird Tales’ artists, James Napoli, from 1935 

- Two issues of Amazing Stories, with the only two appearances of Buck Rogers in the pulps

- Other signed items by Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, August Derleth, Max Brand, Ray Cummings, Johnston McCulley (creator of Zorro) and many others 

- Complete runs of the pulps Air Wonder Stories, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Two Complete Science-Adventure Books and more 

- Many rare U.K. and Australian science fiction pulps and books 

- Numerous H.P. Lovecraft items, including a typescript leaf for "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and the 1937 publication, "HPL," which was limited to 25 copies

- Numerous Robert E. Howard, including the rare "The Hyborean Age"

- Rare items by Clark Ashton Smith, including "Odes and Sonnets” 

- A carbon typescript for Donald Wandrei's "The Sea Change", published in Weird Tales, May 1933, as "Spawn of the Sea"

- And much more! 

The complete auction catalog, along with images, is now available on our website: 

www.windycitypulpandpaper.com 

More details will be posted on our Facebook page -- search FB for Windy City Pulp and Paper or go to: 

https://www.facebook.com/windycitypulp/ 

The website also has details on absentee bidding, for those who can’t make it to the convention. 

But the auctions aren’t our only highlight!  Friday through Sunday, our massive dealer room will be buzzing, bursting with 180 six foot long tables, with roughly 100 dealers from the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Switzerland displaying pulps, vintage paperbacks, science fiction, fantasy & mystery hardcovers, golden and silver age comics, original illustration art, movie memorabilia and more! 

Our art show will feature a great display of art from the hero pulps, such as The Shadow and Doc Savage.  As usual, our film programming, curated by Ed Hulse, will run Friday and Saturday, showing movies and serials based on pulp stories.  Our evening programming will include presentations on the hero pulps.  And Sunday morning will see New Pulp Sunday, programming devoted to the vibrant and colorful world of New Pulp organized by Ron Fortier of Airship 27 Productions.  And all attendees will get a copy of our fabulous convention book, put out by Tom Roberts of Black Dog Books. 

We hope you’ll join us for the fun and excitement at this year’s Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention!  For more info, contact Doug Ellis at pulpvault@msn.com. 

We're now 6 weeks away from this year's Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention, which will be April 21-April 23, 2023! As has been the case since our 2008 show, we will be at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL.

As usual, besides our dealer room with 180 tables filled with goodies from vendors across the U.S., Canada and Europe, we have some tremendous auctions both Friday and Saturday nights. A revised auction catalog, which should be final, can be downloaded from dropbox at the link below:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/o31lxhkbri60gzl/2023%20Friday%20and%20Saturday%20Night%20Auction%20Catalog.pdf?dl=0

A copy of the catalog will also be shortly posted to our website (www.windycitypulpandpaper.com) and auction images should be available there within the week. 

We'll hope to see you at the first pulp party of the year this April!

The auction catalog for this year's Friday and Saturday night auctions at the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 21-23, 2023 at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center) is now available as a pdf file. There's some tremendous material in the auctions!

You can download the catalog from the link on our homepage below. We'll be taking photos of all of the auction items, and those will be posted to the website in the next few weeks.

https://windycitypulpandpaper.com/home/

Here's another of the absolutely beautiful issues of Weird Tales that will be in the Saturday night auction at this year's Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 21-23, 2023 at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center). This one is dated September 1935 with a lovely Brundage cover.

A few more Weird Tales that will be in our Saturday night auction at this year's Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 21-23, 2023 at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL).

 

Here's another of the Weird Tales which will be auctioned in the Saturday night auction at this year's Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 21-23, 2023 at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL).

There's another great Brundage cover on this September 1934 issue, which features the first installment of Robert E. Howard's Conan tale, "People of the Black Circle."

Over 90 issues of Weird Tales arrived yesterday, which will be auctioned in the Saturday night auction at this year's Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 21-23, 2023 at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL).

Here are two of them - the December 1932 issue (featuring the first appearance of Conan) and the October 1933 issue, with perhaps the most famous Brundage cover.

Here's another of the Weird Tales which arrived yesterday, which will be auctioned in the Saturday night auction at this year's Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 21-23, 2023 at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL).

This one is the October 1933 issue, which among other tales features Robert E. Howard's Conan novelette, "The Pool of the Black One," as well as a reprint of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Festival" and Clark Ashton Smith's, "The Seed of the Sepulcher."

Here's another of the Weird Tales which arrived yesterday, which will be auctioned in the Saturday night auction at this year's Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 21-23, 2023 at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL).

This one is the October 1933 issue, which among other tales features Robert E. Howard's Conan novelette, "The Pool of the Black One," as well as a reprint of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Festival" and Clark Ashton Smith's, "The Seed of the Sepulcher."