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G-8 and His Battle Aces was an American air-war pulp magazine published by Popular Publications from 1930 to 1944. Originally titled Battle Aces, it was retitled by Popular in 1933 after its hero, G-8, a top pilot and a spy, due to the success of Street & Smith's The Shadow, a magazine featuring a single character. Robert J. Hogan wrote the lead novels for all the G-8 stories, set in World War I, featuring the Germans threatening the Allies with extraordinary or fantastic schemes, such as giant bats, zombies, and Martians. Hogan and others wrote the short stories that filled the rest of each issue. The covers by Frederick Blakeslee are notable for their fidelity to planes flown in World War I. Originally a monthly, it began releasing an issue every two months shortly before World War II and ceased publication in 1944. Pulp historian Lee Server suggests that Hogan's talent as a writer kept the pulp alive, since by the last issue, in June 1944, the aircraft it featured had long been obsolete. (Full article...)

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