G-8 and His Battle Aces, October 1935

Overview:

  • Title: G-8 and His Battle Aces, October 1935
  • Author: uncredited
  • Year: 2007
  • ISBN-10: 9781597981088
  • Publisher: Adventure House
  • Price: $9.95
  • Pages: 108+[12]
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: G-8 and His Battle Aces, October 1935
  • Notes:
    • Amazon.com gives the publishing date as 2008-07-21 as of 2012-12-14.
    • Reprints in facsimile the lead novel (by G-8 as told to Robert J. Hogan) and the non-genre air-war short story “The Bombless Bomber” from the October 1935 issue of the pulp magazine, which is also written by Robert J. Hogan.
    • Features continuing villain, the mad scientist Herr Doktor Krueger.
    • All G-8 reprints in this series by Adventure House are reprinted in order of original publication.
    • ”G-8 Speaks” is a letter section, and it opens with a short introductory essay by G-8 (Robert J. Hogan), and appears at the end of the book before the advertisements.
    • Unnumbered pages are Adventure House advertisements, blank pages, and the “G-8 Speaks” feature.
    • Volume 7, Number 1.
    • 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 front cover of the facsimile has been restored from the original.
    • 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 $12.95 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.