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PulpCon veterans Al Tonik, from left, Wooda “Nick” Carr and Ray Beam visit Friday morning shortly after doors to the dealers’ room open.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_060804_2.jpg","Bill Thinnes looks over the display of Girasol pulp reprints as Girasol’s Leigh Mechem looks for an issue of The Spider.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_060804_3.jpg","PulpCon guest of honor Ernest Chiriacka, left, and David Saunders, son of pulp artist Norman Saunders, talk with Al Tonik on Friday.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_060804_4.jpg","Ron Fortier, seated right, discusses his Captain Hazzard<\em> book as Don Hutchison, author of The Great Pulp Heroes, sits beside him at a dealer’s table.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_060804_5.jpg","A magnet featuring the covers of the phantom “Bleeding Sun” adventure of Doc Savage hides on a filing cabinet door of Bonnett’s Books in Dayton, Ohio.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_060804_6.jpg","PulpCon guest of honor Ernest Chiriacka holds a plaque, with samples of his cover art, given to him following a slideshow and a questions-and-answer session Friday night.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_060804_7.jpg","Panelists, from left, John Gunnison, Tom Roberts, Ed Hulse, Rich Harvey and Neil Mechem discuss the impact of pulp reprints on the pulp market Friday evening.
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addPhoto("pulpcon_060804_8.jpg","Friday evening’s auction brought 108 items, mostly pulps, to the block, including this set of five Fantastic Stories pulps.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_060804_9.jpg","Following Friday evening’s scheduled activities, several convention attendees retired to the PulpCon suite for small discussions, snacks and drinks.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_060804_10.jpg","Snacks, drinks and camaraderie welcomed convention attendees to the PulpCon suite Friday night following scheduled activities.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_060805_2.jpg","Rich Harvey looks through stacks of Argosy as Tim Cottrell looks on at the Bookery book store in Fairborn, Ohio. Numerous attendees made a pilgrimage to the store for 20% off.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_060805_3.jpg","The marque inside the Dayton Convention Center welcomed PulpCon attendees. But the front doors remained sealed while renovations continued on the center.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_060805_4.jpg","High-quality pulps lined the display rack behind John Gunnison’s tables. There were relatively few low-quality pulps, but plenty of mid-range and higher quality ones.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_060805_5.jpg","Late Saturday afternoon, the dealer’s room begins to empty out as dealers begin packing away their pulps.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_060805_6.jpg","Guest of honor Phil Klass, right, who often wrote under the name William Tenn, provided an entertaining remembrance of the science fiction pulps. PulpCon’s Rusty Hevelin is at left.
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addPhoto("pulpcon_060805_7.jpg","Scott Hartshorn and Sue Irmo played Lamont Cranston/The Shadow and Margot Lane in the PulpCon Players’ adaptation of “Death Triangle” on Saturday night.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_060805_8.jpg","Saturday night’s auction feature a much greater number of items than Friday night’s. This photo and autograph by The Shadow actor Victor Jory sold for $50.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_wrap_01.jpg","Ernest Chiriacka, one of PulpCon’s guests of honor, signs prints of one of his pin-up paintings, next to a stack of pulp cover prints, at his table in the dealers’ room.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_wrap_02.jpg","Ron Hanna, left, of Wild Cat Books, talks with a customer about the second edition of Jay Ryan’s The Handbook of Bronze.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_wrap_03.jpg","Bonnett’s Books in Dayton, Ohio, is packed with books, comics, DVDs, pulps, magazines and hundreds of knicknacks hanging from the ceiling or on the countertops.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_wrap_04.jpg","The Girl’s Gone Wild bus parked outside the PulpCon hotel, but the girls never showed up at the con. Nonetheless, Patrick Cranford, from left, Bill Thinnes, Duane Spurlock, Bill Mann, Lohr McKinstry and David Kalb got a laugh outside the bus.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_wrap_05.jpg","After the evening’s PulpCon events had wound down, small group conversations shifted into high gear in the PulpCon suite over in the hotel.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_wrap_06.jpg","After the evening’s PulpCon events had wound down, small group conversations shifted into high gear in the PulpCon suite over in the hotel.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_wrap_07.jpg","After the evening’s PulpCon events had wound down, small group conversations shifted into high gear in the PulpCon suite over in the hotel.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_wrap_08.jpg","After the evening’s PulpCon events had wound down, small group conversations shifted into high gear in the PulpCon suite over in the hotel.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_wrap_09.jpg","Chris Kalb, left, talks with Wooda “Nick” Carr on Saturday. Chris purchased an issue of The Spider at the Friday night auction that contained a letter from “Pvt. Nick Carr.”");
addPhoto("pulpcon_wrap_10.jpg","Among the items up for auction on Saturday night were reference photos, including this one, used by artist Walter Baumhofer.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_wrap_11.jpg","A group from Galaxy Press, publishers of new reprints of L. Ron Hubbard works, interviewed PulpCon attendees, including PulpCon’s Don Ramlow, for a documentary.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_wrap_12.jpg","Randy Vanderbeek and others browse the tables displaying items for Saturday night’s PulpCon auction.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_wrap_13.jpg","Construction at the Dayton Convention Center closed its ground-floor entrances, so PulpCon attendees had to climb the stairs to the skywalk to come and go.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_wrap_14.jpg","The PulpCon Players entertained Saturday night with a rendition of “Death Triangle,” an episode of The Shadow radio program, in honor of the character’s 75th anniversary.");
addPhoto("pulpcon_wrap_15.jpg","John Goodwin, president of Galaxy Press, donates an autographed lithograph of a Frank Frazetta painting to PulpCon for auction Saturday night.");
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