Several air fighters even got their own magazines, including The Lone Eagle, Dusty Ayres, and the most popular air war hero of them all, G-8. The magazine G-8 and his Battle Aces ran for 110 issues, and the secret of its longevity was that he wasn't fighting just Germans. Like other great Hero Pulp heroes, G-8 went up against threats that crossed the line into the worlds of fantasy, science fiction and the supernatural.
Well. Fast-forward eighty years, and we find James Reasoner, who's written tales in just about every other pulp genre, introducing his own air war hero, American ace Dave "Dead-Stick" Malloy, in Devil Wings Over France. I can't say much about the plot of this adventure without giving too much away, but suffice it to say that Malloy is a worthy successor to G-8, and I'm hoping more tales of his WWI heroics will be coming soon.
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Yeah, I enjoyed this one considerably!
Yep, a nifty story!
That's definitely a genre that needs a revival.
Very interesting, thanks for the heads up. I'd like to add that as a big time fan of G-8 for many years, I was delighted to start reading the very similar Philip Strange adventures by Donald Keyhoe which have IMO superior writing to Hogan's.
I talk about it some here:
http://thepulpreader.blogspot.com/2011/08/phantom-ace.html
Anyway I look forward to checking out "Devil Wings" as it sounds very promising.
Thanks for the heads up. This one sneaked up on me.
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