G-8 and His Battle Aces, October 1935
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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.