G-8 and His Battle Aces, January 1936
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Overview:
- Title: G-8 and His Battle Aces, January 1936
- Author: uncredited
- Year: 2008
- ISBN-10: 9781597981545
- Publisher: Adventure House
- Price: $9.95
- Pages: 111+[9]
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: G-8 and His Battle Aces, January 1936
- Notes:
- Reprints in facsimile the lead novel and the non-genre air-war short stories “The Flying Possum” and “Black Cross Vengeance” from the January 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.
- No 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 7, Number 4.
- 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. It always startes 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 $0.15, 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.