G-8 and his Battle Aces, April 1938

Overview:

  • Title: G-8 and his Battle Aces, April 1938
  • Author: uncredited
  • Year: 2018
  • ISBN-10: 9781597987790
  • Publisher: Adventure House
  • Price: $12.95
  • Pages: 112
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: G-8 and His Battle Aces, October 1933
  • Notes:
    • Reprints the volume 14, number 3, whole number 55.
    • Features reoccurring villains Herr Kruger and Herr Geist.
    • Listed as a collection as all the material within is written by Robert J. Hogan.
    • Back cover reprints a detail from the cover from two earlier issues of the G-8 pulps.
    • All G-8 facsimile reprints in this series from Adventure House are reprinted in order of their original publication.
    • All illustrations, including those of the non-genre stories, are by John Fleming Gould, although he is uncredited in this facsimile.
    • The original G-8 and His Battle Aces pulp magazine was published by Popular Publications, now Argosy Communications.
    • G-8 Speaks is a letter section, and it usually opens with a short introductory essay by G-8 (Robert J. Hogan) and then goes on to print some G-8 fan letters.
    • According to the Galactic Central site Edythe Seims is the original editor. This facsimile version of the pulp is presumably edited by John P. Gunnison, the publisher of Adventure House, and is missing a few pages.
    • Contains many spot illustrations and character portraits that are either filler and/or drift from one issue to another, or are cropped from the larger full-page illustrations, these are not listed.
    • Print-on-demand facsimile reprinting of the original G-8 WWI air war novel with some speculative elements from the March 1938 issue of the pulp magazine of the same name. The lead pulp novel is listed in the magazine as by G-8 as told to Robert J. Hogan.
    • This reprint edition includes the non-speculative air-war short stories The Skyman from Hell (p 74) as by uncredited, The Mad Dog Patrol (p 87) by Greaseball Joe, and Aces High (p 96) by uncredited. All the Greaseball Joe stories are part of a series.
    • There are a number of micro and small illustrations, and character portraits scattered throughout the G-8 novel, these are not listed, but are on pages 7, 12, 14, 15 (G-8), 17, 22, 28, 33, 34 (Nippy), 35 (Bull Martin), 38, 43, 47, 51, 56, 61, 66, and 71. Many of these illustrations are reprinted multiple times throughout the G-8 story.