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.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1891:
Carnegie Hall (interior pictured) in New York City, built by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, officially opened with a concert conducted by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Hall
1992:
The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, 202 years after it was first proposed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
2019:
Aeroflot Flight 1492 was struck by lightning after leaving Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport and caught fire during the subsequent emergency landing attempt, killing 41 people on board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_1492
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
lustrum: 1. (Ancient Rome, religion, historical) A ceremonial purification of all the people, performed every five years after the taking of the census; a lustration. 2. (by extension, literary) A period of five years. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lustrum
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
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