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Publication: G-8 and His Battle Aces, October 1935

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  • Publication: G-8 and His Battle Aces, October 1935Publication Record # 405402
  • Author: uncredited
  • Date: 2007-07-00
  • ISBN: 978-1-59798-108-8 [1-59798-108-7]
  • Publisher: Adventure House
  • Pub. Series: G-8 and His Battle Aces (Adventure House)
  • Pub. Series #: 25
  • Price:
    $9.95?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 108+[12]
  • 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: COLLECTION
  • Cover: G-8 and His Battle Aces, October 1935 (1935) • by Frederick Blakeslee
  • 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.
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Collection Title: G-8 and His Battle Aces, October 1935 • [G-8 and His Battle Aces reprints • 25] • collection by uncredited

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