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Publication: G-8 and His Battle Aces, April 1937

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  • Publication: G-8 and His Battle Aces, April 1937Publication Record # 419350
  • Editor: uncredited
  • Date: 2012-11-00
  • ISBN: 978-1-59798-432-4 [1-59798-432-9]
  • Publisher: Adventure House
  • Price:
    $9.95?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 105
  • Format:
    tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
  • Type: ANTHOLOGY
  • Cover: G-8 and His Battle Aces, April 1937 by Frederick Blakeslee (variant of Vultures of the White Death 1971)
  • Notes:
    • Print-on-demand facsimile reprinting of the original lead pulp novel (by G-8 as told to Robert J. Hogan) and the non-genre air-war short story “Dog Fight” (p 83) by Greaseball Joe (who is also Hogan), "Payoff in Steel" by an uncredited Hogan (91) and the aviation article “Air Angles” by George Bruce from the April 1937 issue of the G-8 pulp magazine.
    • All G-8 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.
    • Volume 11 Number 3.
    • The front cover of the facsimile has been restored from the original.
    • 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 original G-8 and His Battle Aces pulp 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.
    • Listed as an anthology as it is unknown how much this facsimile reprint has been edited.
    • The original pulp cost $0.10, this facsimile costs $10.95 in Canada.
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Anthology Title: G-8 and His Battle Aces, April 1937 • [G-8 and His Battle Aces reprints • 43] • anthology by uncredited

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