G-8 and His Battle Aces, April 1934

Overview:

  • Title: G-8 and His Battle Aces, April 1934
  • Author: uncredited
  • Year: 2003
  • ISBN-10: 1886937648
  • Publisher: Adventure House
  • Price: $9.95
  • Pages: 112
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: G-8 and His Battle Aces, April 1934
  • Notes:
    • Amazon.com gives the publishing date as 2003-02-25 as of 2013-01-31 as the book is out-of-print from the publisher.
    • Reprints in facsimile the lead novel (by G-8 as told to Robert J. Hogan) and the non-genre air-war short story “The Masked Pilot” by C. M. Miller (p 34)from the April 1934 issue of the pulp magazine. The Cruickshank story might have some supernatural elements to it.
    • Features the fifth appearance of the continuing G-8 villain, the mad scientist Herr Doktor Krueger.
    • All G-8 reprints in this series from Adventure House are reprinted in order of original publication.
    • ”G-8 Speaks” is a letter section, and it usually opens with a short introductory essay by G-8 (Robert J. Hogan) and then prints some letters, there are no letters this issue, just an essay.
    • Unnumbered pages are Adventure House advertisements and the “G-8 Speaks” feature.
    • Volume 2, Number 3.
    • The front cover of the facsimile has been restored and slightly altered from the original.
    • All illustrations, including those of the non-genre stories, are by John Fleming Gould.
    • Contains many spot illustrations and character portraits that are either filler and drift from one issue to another, or are cropped from the larger full-page illustrations.
    • The original G-8 and His Battle Aces pulp magazine was published by Popular Publications, now Argosy Communications.
    • The original editor of the pulp is uncredited. This edited version of the pulp is presumably edited by John Gunnison, the publisher of Adventure House.
    • The original pulp cost $0.15, this facsimile now costs $14.95 in Canada.