G-8 and His Battle Aces, August 1936

Overview:

  • Title: G-8 and His Battle Aces, August 1936
  • Author: uncredited
  • Year: 2010
  • ISBN-10: 9781597982801
  • Publisher: Adventure House
  • Price: $9.95
  • Pages: 111+[3]
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: G-8 and His Battle Aces, August 1936
  • Notes:
    • Reprints in facsimile the lead novel (by G-8 as told to Robert J. Hogan) and the non-genre air-war short story “The Blinking Buzzard” (p 93) from the August 1936 issue of the G-8 pulp magazine. All fiction and features are written by Hogan.
    • Features the fifteenth 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 their 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 goes on to print some G-8 fan letters.
    • Unnumbered pages are Adventure House advertisements and blank pages.
    • Volume 9, Number 3.
    • The front cover of the facsimile has been restored 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 $0.10, this facsimile costs $10.95 in Canada.