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Will Murray's Pulp Classics #26 G-8 and His Struggle Aces Audiobook #1: The Bat Staffel by Robert J. Hogan. Read by Doug Rock. Liner Records by Will Murray. They called G-8 the Soaring Spy. Record never noted his exploits - and for good reason! Nobody would ever believe that World War I was that wild! G-8, the high-flying ace pilot of World Battle I, was born in the front seat of an automobile barreling through the Holland Tunnel. His dad was Robert Jasper Hogan, who had made quite a name for himself as a prolific pulp article writer specializing in aviation fiction during the glamorous period now styled Between the Wars. Among experts of this now-lost art work, this university of writing was styled Yammering Guns, after the sound of contending synchronized machine weapons in furious action. The Spider, and a associate title to be targeted at the legions of visitors who drank up fictionalized accounts of World Battle I Allied aces versus Imperial Germany's various bi-winged matters and barons, red and otherwise. Among Popular's star authors, Hogan was doubtless the first article writer publisher Harry Steeger considered when casting about for the right scribe. The unnamed publication was on the program as a monthly. The designated writer would have to know his rudders and ailerons - and become reliable. Hard drinkers do not need to apply. And Hogan had been an air cadet during World Battle I, but the armistice came before he could dispatch out and see action. Steeger and Hogan hashed out a concept. It was part Eddie Rickenbacker and part What Price Glory? - that was a favorite Maxwell Anderson stage play converted into a film. Price stressed the horrors of warfare as counterpoint to the sentimental comradeship of the Allies in the trenches. Only in cases like this, by horror, Popular Magazines meant something a lot more horrific than mustard-gas trench warfare atrocities. For, envisioning the expected pressure on the writer's thoughts a monthly book would enact, Steeger and Hogan agreed that the new series would soon develop stale if indeed they didn't spice it up with components of the great. This recipe ranged from simply super-scientific fatality rays to the unabashedly supernatural manifestations. Nothing was taboo in G-8. Hogan was a pioneer of over-the-top plotting years before the term was coined. The leading tale, which came out in the October, 1933 issue of G-8 and His Struggle Aces, exemplified the outrageous strategy Steeger and Hogan envisioned for the series. Hogan called it The Bat Staffel. Therein he released a German mad scientist who bedevil his new hero the space and breadth of the series - some 11 tortured years. This first time out, Herr Doktor Krueger unleashed monster bats as big as bi-planes on Allied Sop with Camels and Spads. It designed for fearsome reading. Along with his canvas limited by the skies over No Man's Land during the four years encompassed by what was actually called the fantastic War, Hogan proceeded to go for broke, escalating from terrifying stories such as The Skeleton Patrol and Squadron of the Scorpion to unchecked phantasms of terror like Satan Paints the Sky, Here Flies the Hawks of Hell and The Bloody Wings of the Vampire. Hogan had a predilection for half-human antagonists, which manifested within an annual parade of beast-men, wolf-men, leopard-men, panther-men, even rhino-men. For G-8 and his battle buddies, the Battle to get rid of All Wars proved to be an extremely long and hairy issue. Before it was all over, G-8 battled odd menaces ranging from Martians to Zombies, with assorted undead minions of the Kaiser in between. If Hogan couldn't concoct a brand new beast-man, why, a clutch of cave men or freshly-defrosted Viking berserkers would keep his audience riveted. Recurring foes came and proceeded to go. G-8 finally vanquished Herr Doktor Krueger past due in the series. Or does he? Maybe they restored their feud for World Battle II. If so, Hogan didn't record those encounters. Without doubt they would have captivated ever-loyal lovers of the one and only Soaring Spy. This inaugural G-8 audiobook is narrated by the gifted Doug Rock. Stand clear! Contact! Zoooom! Tac-tac-tac-tac! Yammering Guns live again! Nick DeGregorio composed the music for the G-8 and His Struggle Aces group of audiobooks.
