G-8 and His Battle Aces, April 1936
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Overview:
- Title: G-8 and His Battle Aces, April 1936
- Author: uncredited
- Year: 2009
- ISBN-10: 9781597982139
- Publisher: Adventure House
- Price: $9.95
- Pages: 111+[8]
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: Scourge of the Sky Beast (Complete Novel)
- Notes:
- Reprints in facsimile the lead novel and the non-genre air-war short story “The Windbag Wizard” from the April 1936 issue of the pulp magazine. All are written by Robert J. Hogan, the novel is listed as “by G-8 as told to Robert J. Hogan”.
- Features continuing villain, the mad scientist Herr Doktor Krueger.
- Few ads from the original pulp are reprinted.
- All G-8 reprints in this format by Adventure House are reprinted in their original order of publication.
- Unnumbered pages are advertisements and blank pages.
- Volume 8, Number 3.
- All illustrations, including that of the non-genre story, 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 front cover of the facsimile has been restored and slightly altered from the original.
- ”G-8 Speaks” is the letter column for the original pulp magazine. The column always starts off with a long essay by G-8 (Robert J. Hogan) and was usually followed by letters from the readers.
- The original G-8 and His Battle Aces 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 $0.10, this facsimile costs $10.95 in Canada.
- G-8's wiki page is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-8_(character)#List_of_G-8_and_His_Battle_Aces_titles.