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August 14, 2006: "The Return of Pulp Fiction"
"Once sold for a dime or a quarter, rare pulp issues featuring a story by L. Ron Hubbard, Edgar Rice Burroughs or Raymond Chandler go for $500 to several thousand dollars at PulpCon. Often featuring attention-grabbing cover art and classic inside illustrations, the pulp fiction magazine has been transformed into mega bestsellers like "Battlefield Earth" and "Harry Potter" or Hollywood blockbusters like "Star Wars" and "Pirates of the Caribbean."
