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Title: G-8 and His Battle Aces, #18 March 1935
Author: Robert J. Hogan, RadioArchives.com
Narrator: Nick Santa Maria
Format: Original Recording
Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-31-13
Publisher: RadioArchives.com
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Nostalgia Radio, Crime & Mystery
Publisher's Summary:
Will Murray's Pulp Classics
G-8 and His Battle Aces eBook
#18 March 1935
Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully narrated for easy listening as an audiobook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine. As a special bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction especially for this series of audiobooks.
G-8 and his Battle Aces rode the nostalgia boom ten years after World War I ended. These high-flying exploits were tall tales of a World War that might have been, featuring monster bats, German zombies, wolf-men, harpies, Martians, and even tentacled floating monsters. Most of these monstrosities were the work of Germanys seemingly endless supply of mad scientists, chief of whom was G-8s recurring Nemesis, Herr Doktor Krueger. G-8 battled Germanys Halloween shock troops for over a decade, not ceasing until the magazine folded in the middle of World War II. G-8 and his Battle Aces return in vintage pulp tales, reissued for todays readers in electronic format.
Members Reviews:
Solid war pulp adventure
With nothing to occupy their time in the early parts of the last century, other than plays, live music, sex (big families), and starting wars (making big families small), people had to do with reading, a lot of it, and a lot of reading material was required. Pulps, being the cheapest source of reading material, were constantly looking for new gimmicks, resulting in vast amounts of literary experimentation.
Since war horror fictions go back before even the pulps, and adventure fiction has always been popular, the G-8 air war adventure stories, written when airplanes were simpler, more romantic, and more easily understood, were the most popular war pulps ever published. Mixing the supernatural with the scientifically impossible would prove to be a winning formula, as over a hundred G-8s were published.
The G-8s were what many of the later weird-adventure Destroyer novels would be. Reading as if Hogan would take a standard pulp adventure plot, lots of legal drugs, and many gallons of bathtub gin, Hogan's G-8s were totally devoid of scientific plausibility or logic.
In "The Death Monsters", reoccurring villain, mad scientist Doktor Krueger has found a way to graft people's personality, or something, into the Ulp (?), which makes them big, mean and grotesque fighting machines. The Ulp resemble a cross between a floating human head, nose up, and a man-o-war, nose down.
The Ulp's tentacles are strong enough to crush steel, and are poison tipped, and the Ulp can levitate. Still, they aren't big enough to be practical, so Krueger bushwhacks three hundred elephants (in Germany!!) to make the Ulp larger (!!!).
The G-8s, because of the times, had to concentrate more on action, character, and plot, rather than gore, style, or mood. The G-8s were meant to entertain, not earn respect or awards for the writer. "The Death Monsters" entertained with more than its share of "WTF?" moments, including one dealing with an air war between the bi-planes and the Ulp.
The action is fast, the characters believable, and Frederick Blakeslee's cover is wonderful and fantastic. Now either the original pulp misnumbered its chapters, as there is no chapter ten, or chapter ten was lost in the reprinting, and is now AWOL. I suspect the former.
