G-8 and His Battle Aces, June 1935

Overview:

  • Title: G-8 and His Battle Aces, June 1935
  • Author: uncredited
  • Year: 2006
  • ISBN-10: 1597980773
  • Publisher: Adventure House
  • Price: $9.95
  • Pages: 104+[12]
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: G-8 and His Battle Aces, June 1935
  • Notes:
    • Amazon.com gives the publishing date as 2006-11-21 as of 2012-12-14.
    • Reprints in facsimile the lead novel and the non-genre air-war short story “The Vulture Patrol” from the June 1935 issue of the pulp magazine. Both are written by Robert J. Hogan.
    • All G-8 reprints in this format are reprinted in order of original publication.
    • Unnumbered pages are advertisements and blank pages.
    • Volume 6, Number 1.
    • 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.
    • Features continuing villain, the mad scientist Herr Doktor Krueger.
    • 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 front cover of the facsimile has been restored and slightly altered from the original.
    • The original pulp cost $0.15, this facsimile costs $14.95 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.