Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention, April 21-23, 2023, Westin Lombard Yorktown Center, Lombard, IL 2 2

[Pulpvault]

We're now just three months away from the 22nd Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention! This year's show will be held April 21-23, 2023 at our usual venue, the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center, Lombard, Illinois. We've sold out all 180 of our dealer tables, to dealers spanning the U.S., from Canada and the U.K. 

 

In addition to pulps and paperbacks, there are always many dealers there with Golden Age, Silver Age and other vintage comics, as well as original comic art.

 

As has been the case in years past, this year's convention will feature some incredible material in our estate auctions. Friday night (April 21), our auction will focus on material from the estate of legendary collector Robert Weinberg (including many more issues of Weird Tales), while on Saturday night (April 22), material from several consignors will be featured, including the first Conan and bat woman cover issues of Weird Tales, some very rare H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard items, and much more.

 

You can head to our website for complete details:

 

https://windycitypulpandpaper.com/home/

 

We hope to see you there!

[Pulpvault]

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.

[Pulpvault]

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).

 

[Pulpvault]

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.

 

[Pulpvault]

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/

[comicjack]

I have a feeling this show is going to be very busy with all the action pulps are taking this year.The show is a little more than two months away and your eyes will be amazed with some of those covers

[TerrysComics]

I'll be there: 

       

      

      

      

      

  

[Cobbledclam]

Puppets are people too!!!

[manetteska]

On 2/10/2023 at 9:32 PM, TerrysComics said:

I'll be there: 

       

      

      

      

      

  

Hi Terry - How much of your "usual" convention setup will you be bringing to this one? The whole she-bang or specific to pulps?

[TerrysComics]

On 2/13/2023 at 9:38 AM, manetteska said:

Hi Terry - How much of your "usual" convention setup will you be bringing to this one? The whole she-bang or specific to pulps?

mostly comic books as I will be coming from the Little Giant Old School Comic Show in New Hampshire.

 

[Pulpvault]

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!

[TerrysComics]

getting ready for the show: 

 

[TerrysComics]

more stuff:

    

        

           

Edited March 18, 2023 by TerrysComics

[manetteska]

On 3/18/2023 at 4:47 PM, TerrysComics said:

more stuff:

    

        

           

Trying to read the price stickers. 
 

[comicjack]

Only three weeks away to smell the pulp paper 

[manetteska]

Anyone need help setting up?

 

[Pulpvault]

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. 

[Comics-n-ERB]

Do you have a list of the vendors available?

[Pulpvault]

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

Do you have a list of the vendors available?

Current list is: Airship 27 - Ron Fortier & Rob Davis

Alvarado, Mark

Alexander, David

Aronovitz, David - The Fine Book Company

Bielski, Frank

Bieniek, Matthew

Bohnett, Brian

Broecker, Randy

Canja, Jeff - Modern Age Books

Certo, Nick

Chapman, Tim

Charet, Larry

Chomko, Mike

Coker, John - First Fandom

Conran, Mike

Cosgriff, John

Croft, Jason - Bachelor Pad Magazine

Dilbone, Keith

Dungan, Joe

Eisenstein, Alex

Ellis, Doug

Frank, Jane - Worlds of Wonder

Garcia, Bob - American Fantasy

Gaynor, Jeff + Terry Kalkanian - Unicorn Comics & Cards

Gerlach, Jim

Glaberson, Cory - Reel Art

Grams, Martin - Finders Keepers Classics + Carpenter, Gene - All-American Comics & Collectibles

Grapefruit Moon Gallery

Gunnison, John - Adventure House

Haffner, Stephen - Haffner Press

Hagenauer, George

Hallock, Larry - Ygor's Books

Hauser, John & Steve Spilger

Heritage Auctions - Todd Hignite & Rick Akers

Herman, Paul

Hickman, Mark

Hulse, Ed - Blood 'N Thunder

Jasinski, Joseph

Bill Thinnes & Dennis Harford

Jones, Stephen

Ketter, Greg - DreamHaven

Kitley, Jon & Dawn - Kitley's Krypt

Klauba, Doug

Korshak, Steve

Kraljic, Franz

Larson, Rich

Law, Mike & Nick

LePlae, Dave

Macuga, Peter

McCarthy, Jim

McMahan, John - My Back Pages

McVicker, Terence - Terence McVicker, Rare Books

Meli, Richard - Heartwood Books

Metropolis Comics / Comic Connect - Vincent Zurzolo

Morris, Brian

Nelson, Mark

Nelson, Phil

Olson, Dwayne

O'Neill, Terry - Terry's Comics

Parsons, Mike

Paxton, Tim - Tim's Books

Plexico, Van - White Rocket Books

Poole, Craig

Rankin, Donna - Tall Stories Books

Richards, Andy & Malcolm Edwards - Cold Tonnage Books

Ritter, David & Daniel - First Fandom Experience

Ritzlin, Dave - DMR Books

Roberts, Garyn

Roberts, Tom - Black Dog Books

Rohrwild, Markus

Ross, Bill

Saine, Joseph

Santman, Rick & Bill Thade

Saxby, Anne

Sayger, Stuart

Schmidt, Dave - Main Street Music

Schwinger, Laurence

Simms, Doug - Heroes & Games

Smith, Dave - Fantasy Illustrated

Smith, Steve - Oasis Audio

Sodin, Rocco

Stransky, Tom - Midway Book Store

Sweet, Jonathan

Taraba, Fred - Taraba Illustration Art

Tollin, Anthony - Sanctum Productions

Vander Zanden, Mark

Vanderbeek, Sheila

Vandrey, Phil

Walsh, Ray

Wehler, Jon

Welch, Chuck

Weinberg, Phyllis - Weinberg Books

Wheatley, Mark

White, David & Tommy Hancock - Pro Se Press

Wiener, Robert - Grant Books

Zarrillo, Robert

Zielinski, Zane

Zimmerli, Andy

[Pulpvault]

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!