Episode 1826
G-8 and His Battle Aces
Thu, 2022-May-05 00:08 UTC
Length - 2:21
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The featured article for Thursday, 5 May 2022 is G-8 and His Battle Aces.
G-8 and His Battle Aces was an American air-war pulp magazine published by Popular Publications from 1930 to 1944. It was one of the first four magazines launched by Popular when it began operations in 1930, and lasted for just over two years under the title Battle Aces. The success of Street & Smith's The Shadow, a hero pulp (a magazine with a lead novel in each issue featuring a single character), led Popular to follow suit in 1933 by relaunching Battle Aces as a hero pulp: the new title was G-8 and His Battle Aces, and the hero, G-8, was a top pilot and a spy. Robert J. Hogan wrote the lead novels for all the G-8 stories, which were set in World War I. Hogan's plots featured the Germans threatening the Allied forces with extraordinary or fantastic schemes, such as giant bats, zombies, and Martians. He often contributed stories to the magazines as well as the lead novel, though not all the short stories were by him. The covers are by Frederick Blakeslee, and notable for their fidelity to actual planes flown in World War I.
The magazine originally appeared on a monthly schedule, but changed to bimonthly during World War II and ceased publication in 1944. Pulp historian Lee Server suggests that it was Hogan's talent as a writer that allowed the magazine to last as long as it did, since by the last issue, in June 1944, the aircraft it featured had long been obsolete.
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