G8 and His Battle Aces #45 Robert J Hogan John P Gunnison Frederick Blakeslee Books
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Flight From the Grave by Robert J. Hogan "Deathless men from another world who move like machines against a helpless human race!—these are the enemies that G-8 must fight—this is the test of an airman's courage! What is the Fate that lies before the Master Spy? Where is the end of the trail of Death?"
G8 and His Battle Aces #45 Robert J Hogan John P Gunnison Frederick Blakeslee Books
Before television, even before radio took off, there were the pulps, and reading, believe it or not, one of the main sources of entertainment was reading, and for the masses, cheap reading was the rule, and part of this cheap reading were, the now extinct, pulps. And the publishers of these pulps had to walk a tightrope with their audiences, give their readers what they want, all the while keeping their material fresh enough so that the readers thought they were getting something new.And that often meant mixing genres, like the G-8 pulp, in which the lead novel mixed the fantasy, mystery, thriller, air war, and horror genres into a blender for the G-8 novels. It should also be noted that we never learn the real names of the central character of this pulp series.
********The G-8 series was also pretty unique in the pulp field for not wasting a good villain, because in "The Flight Of The Green Assassin" Robert J. Hogan brings back to G-8's readers Chu Lung, a Chinese madman and scientist. Chu Lung has, with some help from G-8's most famous villain, Herr Doktor Kruegar, who makes a cameo, has created and perfected the ghastly Green Death. The Green Death being a mortar that shoots out a hollow ball filled with a mysterious substance, that when shot out of a mounted canon, flies tried and true to hit the Allied aircraft and to blow them into small bits. And what's worse is that these balls don't even have to be well aimed to hit their target as the missile always finds its target, no matter how poorly aimed.
But for Chu Lung's plan to succeed, first he must eliminate the legendary G-8 and his famous Battle Aces, Nippy and Bull, so he puts out the word through his spy network that a substantial reward will be given to the person who kills G-8. But, not waiting for the death of G-8 to enact his plans, Chu Lung installs his weapon on a zeppelin and proceeds to systematically eliminate the Allies Air Forces. Yet, despite several attempts on his life, G-8 goes undercover as Captain Archibald, a Chu Lung spy that G-8 has captured, to track down Chu Lung, and from there on the novel becomes a real mess, but in a good way. Chu Lung's men will attack G-8's headquarters, where there will be a brutal man-to-man fight; Nippy and Bull are kidnapped; Battle, G-8's manservant goes undercover, flies a plane, and along with G-8 gets captured; and Nippy and Bull are fed to small mountain of red ants. Yowsa, the action never stops.
Thing will cumulate into an air battle, including the scene seen on the cover of this magazine, as G-8 fights for his life on the outside of a rampaging zeppelin.
This is easily one of the best G-8 novels that I've read so far. Sure, the characters run more to type than having any real depth, but everybody gets a decent amount of time on stage, and nobody, even the mad Doktor Chu Lung, embarrass themselves. They all have their jobs to do and they do them well. And for fans of this series, G-8’s manservant "Battle" steps up and has his day in the sun, fighting alongside G-8 to rescue the kidnapped Nippy and Bull; he even creates a new weapon for the G-8 arsenal.
Chu Lung’s new weapon is ripped right from the pages of a Doc Savage novel, and while there is some "yellow menace" talk, there is, surprising enough, little racist banter considering those politically incorrect times. The action of this G-8 novel is brisk, well-paced, and the air battles exciting.
The only real problem that I had with this novel is that Hogan falls back on the that old hoary pulp cliché "the magic make-up". The magic make-up being the stuff that instantly transforms a person into somebody else, that never needs retouching, stays perfect under all kinds of harsh conditions for days on end, can be slept in, and which fools even the closest companions of both parties. Still, that complaint aside, this is a pulp novel, that like many good hero pulps, has the right amount of speculative elements, action, and a brilliant and evil villain. What a great movie serial this novel would have made.
As this is a facsimile reprint of most of the September 1937 pulp magazine, it also reprints two of the original stories that were also printed in the original magazine.
********The first of the reprints is 'The Pig And The Professor' and it is a humorous story with a serious point to make about comradery as the 69th Pursuit Squadron gets two new replacements. The snooty Lieutenant Hopkins and the farm-bred Jasper Peck and his pet pig, and right away there is tension between the two. The snooty Hopkins has a real hate-on for Peck’s pig. The tension will build until the two have a serious clash in which only one can remain standing. Perhaps a minor story, but one which is still entertaining.
********'Aces And Glory' is the other story, and in it Jack Bennett of the 64th is a daredevil ace who keeps volunteering for the most dangerous of missions. Why? Then he receives a message from an old friend from the states in that that the hard-nosed cop Mike Fagan is coming to get him as he is wanted for a crime that he didn't do. How will Bennett get out of this trouble, get Bennett off of his tail, save himself, and prove that Fagan may be a crooked cop? A solid mixture of air war and crime genre stories. Hagan fills out this story with several dynamite air battles. Worth reading the magazine for if you're a crime fiction fan.
********All-in-all, a really above average issue, and besides the fiction, it is chock full of great illustrations by the forgotten and underrated John Fleming Gould. And just as Robert J. Hogan has written all of the stories in this issue, so has Gould drawn all of the artwork in this issue, Frederick Blakeslee has done all of the covers for this magazine, and once again he has turned in another exciting poster worthy cover.
For this site I have read and reviewed these other books of interest:
G-8 And His Battle Aces #18: The Death Monsters by Robert J. Hogan.
G-8 And His Battle Aces #29: Skeletons Of The Black Cross by Robert J. Hogan.
G-8 And His Battle Aces #30: The Patrol Of The Dead by Robert J. Hogan.
G-8 And His Battle Aces #45: Flight From The Grave by Robert J. Hogan.
Ghost Pilot by Anton Emmerton.
No Man’s World #1: Black Hand Gang by Pat Kelleher.
No Man’s World #2: Ironclad Prophecy by Pat Kelleher.
No Man’s World #3: The Alleyman by Pat Kelleher.
Variety Novels Magazine, September 1938 edited by Anonymous.
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G8 and His Battle Aces #45 Robert J Hogan John P Gunnison Frederick Blakeslee Books Reviews
when I got, I was thrilled to my toes. great story lines and fanatic places that I though was lost to the modern lifestyle of today's in-crowd. I am so incredible happy that someone somewhere is still printing this hair-rising, heart pounding, he-man yarns that kids of all ages should be reading, even in school!
G8 goes up against an old enemy. The oriental menace sides with the Germans , and will sell them a wonder weapon. Great ww1 action yellow peril story. Better than average G8 story.
G-8, Nippy, and Bull are relaxing in their headquarters/hanger and commenting on how easy to shoot down recently the German pilots have become, and how they would like a little more challenge to their antagonists. They will soon learn to beware what they wish for.
Because as they are chilling, a mysterious voice fills the air of their sanctuary telling them to wait, but G-8 smelling a trap quickly evacuates everybody just before a bomb goes off, which itself leaves behind a warning from an old enemy. An enemy long dead and buried.
Then the bomber comes back, he's shot down, burned, and then he is shot again, and still the killer continues his onslaught on G-8, and it is here that G-8 finds that the dead do walk!!!
Enter into all of this the blond, blue-eyed "girl spy" R-1, and accompanying her is the walking cliché "Betsy" ("Lands sakes!!"), a black 200 pound Haitian woman who is a specialist in voodoo and this novel's chief villain King Jalito, a man who can raise the dead, and who is now working for the Germans. She's also this novel's chief comic relief, and at this she fails miserably.
Unfortunately what starts off with a promising premise starts to go downhill at the seventy page mark for several reasons. The first being that the funee starts and I wasn't amused. Betsy starts doing her best mammy routine, and acting foolish; Battle has to dress up in drag, and fat jokes abount. ***Sigh***. Oh, and evidently, voodoo zombies don't attack wimmen folk. Who knew? Coulda fooled me.
The second problem is that G-8 is constantly captured, constantly escapes, captured, escapes, wash, rinse, repeat. And what's worse, G-8 only seems to keep escaping through the stupidity of the Germans. And I noticed that G-8 gets whacked on the noggin so many times that in real life he would be suffering from untreatable brain damage by the novel's end.
The third is that there is little air war action here; G-8 spends most of his time skittering about on the ground like rat in a cage. Because for an air war pulp, and novel, G-8 spends an awful amount of time on the ground in "Flight From The Grave' in his attempt to find out what is behind the walking, and flying, dead. That's okay for me though, I don't always read these novels for the air warfare. Still, a few dogfights would have been welcome, so for those that are jonesing for them will be disappointed.
Then there is the fact that for a series about a trio of bad ass pilots who fight monsters and German fighters, it takes two women to rescue their sorry butts as they are given a right proper stomping by King Jalito. So, after all of the build-up, the ending comes across as truly anti-climatic. I expected more.
On-the-other-hand, the novel is a smooth read, even though that there is no page twenty-six, as page twenty-six is actually a reprint, illustration and all, of page twenty-eight. There are also no real glitches in the novel's logic, such as it is, or plot. So if you can overlook the plot points that I didn't like, you'll still find that this is an exciting pulp read. Except for the last ten pages, I almost gave this short novella four stars. Three stars.
This "facsimile" reprint, it only has a hundred and ten of the hundred and twenty-eight pages of the original pulp, also contains two non-weird, straight air war stories from the original magazine.
******** The first is "Brass Buttons And Dynamite", and it is more of an incident during the war, and an uncredited Robert J. Hogan documents that pilot Hal Roberts has just lost his longtime pal on a bombing run. Now upset over the treatment that he gets from General Dunning, who is his commanding officer, pulls his gun, commits an act of mutiny, and gets himself a new flying partner. A good, but unpretentious, war tale and character sketch. Eventually we learn both sides of the story, the pilot's and the general's. The ending is left open, but, I liked it. Four stars.
******** The last story is "The Flying Canaries", which also by an uncredited Hogan, and here the 68th observation squadron gets a new commanding officer, and he is an officious, politically connected popinjay who doesn't know half of what thinks he does, and besides being a fool, is also incompetent, and a coward, who also manages to get his equally idiotic brother transferred to the base. Humor is relative, but this story has a serious edge behind its absurdist mask. If you liked television shows like "Baa Baa Black Sheep" you'll like this story. Perhaps it is just filler, but it's good entertaining filler. Not one for the ages, but I've read worse, and it still holds up after being reprinted seventy-eight years later, something nobody involved in this pulp ever thought would ever happen. Four stars.
There is also a letter section, that has been severely edited, and an excerpt from novel "Drome Of The Damned", a Lone Eagle story by Lieut. Scott Morgan that has also been reprinted by Adventure House.
The G-8 novel "Flight From The Grave" had a strong beginning, and interesting set-up, but a weak ending, but the two short stories still brought up this replica's point average. I suspect others might like this novel even more.
It also helps that the novel had a plethora of decent to great illustrations by John Fleming Gould, and another poster worthy cover by Frederick Blakeslee, which does illustrate a scene from the G-8 novel and which looks like it could have graced any issue of "Weird Tales".
World War II ended the whole air war genre. So sad, too bad.
For this site I reviewed these other weird war books
Afterlife Battlefield by Johnny Ostentatious.
Captain Midnight Chronicles edited by Christopher Mills.
THE DESERT by Bryon Morrigan.
G-8 and His Battle Aces #18 The Death Monsters by Robert J. Hogan.
G-8 and His Battle Aces #29 Skeletons Of The Black Cross by Robert J. Hogan.
G-8 and His Battle Aces #28 The Patrol Of The Dead by Robert J. Hogan.
Ghost Pilot by Anton Emmerton.
Monster Island A Zombie Novel #1 Monster Island by David Wellington.
No Man's World #1 Black Hand Gang by Pat Kelleher.
No Man's World #2 The Ironclad Prophecy by Pat Kelleher.
No Man's World #3 The Alleyman by Pat Kelleher.
The Ship of Ishtar (Planet Stories Library) by A. Merritt (Abraham Merritt).
Tomes of the Dead Stronghold by Paul Finch.
Before television, even before radio took off, there were the pulps, and reading, believe it or not, one of the main sources of entertainment was reading, and for the masses, cheap reading was the rule, and part of this cheap reading were, the now extinct, pulps. And the publishers of these pulps had to walk a tightrope with their audiences, give their readers what they want, all the while keeping their material fresh enough so that the readers thought they were getting something new.
And that often meant mixing genres, like the G-8 pulp, in which the lead novel mixed the fantasy, mystery, thriller, air war, and horror genres into a blender for the G-8 novels. It should also be noted that we never learn the real names of the central character of this pulp series.
********The G-8 series was also pretty unique in the pulp field for not wasting a good villain, because in "The Flight Of The Green Assassin" Robert J. Hogan brings back to G-8's readers Chu Lung, a Chinese madman and scientist. Chu Lung has, with some help from G-8's most famous villain, Herr Doktor Kruegar, who makes a cameo, has created and perfected the ghastly Green Death. The Green Death being a mortar that shoots out a hollow ball filled with a mysterious substance, that when shot out of a mounted canon, flies tried and true to hit the Allied aircraft and to blow them into small bits. And what's worse is that these balls don't even have to be well aimed to hit their target as the missile always finds its target, no matter how poorly aimed.
But for Chu Lung's plan to succeed, first he must eliminate the legendary G-8 and his famous Battle Aces, Nippy and Bull, so he puts out the word through his spy network that a substantial reward will be given to the person who kills G-8. But, not waiting for the death of G-8 to enact his plans, Chu Lung installs his weapon on a zeppelin and proceeds to systematically eliminate the Allies Air Forces. Yet, despite several attempts on his life, G-8 goes undercover as Captain Archibald, a Chu Lung spy that G-8 has captured, to track down Chu Lung, and from there on the novel becomes a real mess, but in a good way. Chu Lung's men will attack G-8's headquarters, where there will be a brutal man-to-man fight; Nippy and Bull are kidnapped; Battle, G-8's manservant goes undercover, flies a plane, and along with G-8 gets captured; and Nippy and Bull are fed to small mountain of red ants. Yowsa, the action never stops.
Thing will cumulate into an air battle, including the scene seen on the cover of this magazine, as G-8 fights for his life on the outside of a rampaging zeppelin.
This is easily one of the best G-8 novels that I've read so far. Sure, the characters run more to type than having any real depth, but everybody gets a decent amount of time on stage, and nobody, even the mad Doktor Chu Lung, embarrass themselves. They all have their jobs to do and they do them well. And for fans of this series, G-8’s manservant "Battle" steps up and has his day in the sun, fighting alongside G-8 to rescue the kidnapped Nippy and Bull; he even creates a new weapon for the G-8 arsenal.
Chu Lung’s new weapon is ripped right from the pages of a Doc Savage novel, and while there is some "yellow menace" talk, there is, surprising enough, little racist banter considering those politically incorrect times. The action of this G-8 novel is brisk, well-paced, and the air battles exciting.
The only real problem that I had with this novel is that Hogan falls back on the that old hoary pulp cliché "the magic make-up". The magic make-up being the stuff that instantly transforms a person into somebody else, that never needs retouching, stays perfect under all kinds of harsh conditions for days on end, can be slept in, and which fools even the closest companions of both parties. Still, that complaint aside, this is a pulp novel, that like many good hero pulps, has the right amount of speculative elements, action, and a brilliant and evil villain. What a great movie serial this novel would have made.
As this is a facsimile reprint of most of the September 1937 pulp magazine, it also reprints two of the original stories that were also printed in the original magazine.
********The first of the reprints is 'The Pig And The Professor' and it is a humorous story with a serious point to make about comradery as the 69th Pursuit Squadron gets two new replacements. The snooty Lieutenant Hopkins and the farm-bred Jasper Peck and his pet pig, and right away there is tension between the two. The snooty Hopkins has a real hate-on for Peck’s pig. The tension will build until the two have a serious clash in which only one can remain standing. Perhaps a minor story, but one which is still entertaining.
********'Aces And Glory' is the other story, and in it Jack Bennett of the 64th is a daredevil ace who keeps volunteering for the most dangerous of missions. Why? Then he receives a message from an old friend from the states in that that the hard-nosed cop Mike Fagan is coming to get him as he is wanted for a crime that he didn't do. How will Bennett get out of this trouble, get Bennett off of his tail, save himself, and prove that Fagan may be a crooked cop? A solid mixture of air war and crime genre stories. Hagan fills out this story with several dynamite air battles. Worth reading the magazine for if you're a crime fiction fan.
********All-in-all, a really above average issue, and besides the fiction, it is chock full of great illustrations by the forgotten and underrated John Fleming Gould. And just as Robert J. Hogan has written all of the stories in this issue, so has Gould drawn all of the artwork in this issue, Frederick Blakeslee has done all of the covers for this magazine, and once again he has turned in another exciting poster worthy cover.
For this site I have read and reviewed these other books of interest
G-8 And His Battle Aces #18 The Death Monsters by Robert J. Hogan.
G-8 And His Battle Aces #29 Skeletons Of The Black Cross by Robert J. Hogan.
G-8 And His Battle Aces #30 The Patrol Of The Dead by Robert J. Hogan.
G-8 And His Battle Aces #45 Flight From The Grave by Robert J. Hogan.
Ghost Pilot by Anton Emmerton.
No Man’s World #1 Black Hand Gang by Pat Kelleher.
No Man’s World #2 Ironclad Prophecy by Pat Kelleher.
No Man’s World #3 The Alleyman by Pat Kelleher.
Variety Novels Magazine, September 1938 edited by Anonymous.
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