G-8 and His Battle Aces, July 1938

Overview:

  • Title: G-8 and His Battle Aces, July 1938
  • Author: uncredited
  • Year: 2019
  • ISBN-10: 9781597987851
  • Publisher: Adventure House
  • Price: $12.95
  • Pages: 109
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: G-8 and His Battle Aces, October 1933
  • Notes:
    • Print-on-demand facsimile reprinting of the original G-8 WWI air war novel with some speculative elements from the July 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 is a 109-page reprint of the one-hundred and twelve page edition includes the non-speculative air-war short stories Death Makes a Bargain (p 82) as by Greaseball Joe, and The Balloon and the Buzzard (p 93) as by uncredited. Both are by an uncredited Hogan.
    • All G-8 facsimile 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.
    • The original pulp had 112 pages, this facsimile only contains 109 pages of the original pulp. It is unknown if the missing pages were ads or features.
    • Reprints volume 15, number 2, whole number 58.
    • All illustrations, including those of the non-genre stories, are by John Fleming Gould, although he is uncredited in this facsimile.
    • Contains many spot illustrations and character portraits that are filler, cropped details from the larger illustrations, or character portraits, and drift from one issue to another. These are not listed, but can be found on pages 8, 12 (G-8), 13, 16, 19, 23, 26 (Nippy Weston), 27 (Bull Martin), 28, 31, 37, 41, 48, 53, 57, 61, 64, 69, 74, and 80.
    • Back cover reprints a detail from the cover from two earlier issues of the G-8 pulps.
    • The original G-8 and His Battle Aces pulp magazine was published by Popular Publications, now Argosy Communications.
    • Galactic Central sites Edythe Seims as the actual editor. This edited facsimile version of the pulp is presumably edited by John P. Gunnison, the publisher of Adventure House.
    • Listed as a collection as all the material within is written by Robert J. Hogan.