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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, the success of Street & Smith's The Shadow, a magazine featuring a single character, led Popular in 1933 to retitle the pulp after its hero, G-8, a top pilot and a spy. Robert J. Hogan wrote the lead novels for all the G-8 stories, set in World War I, featuring the Germans threatening the Allied forces 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 actual planes flown in World War I. Originally a monthly, it became bimonthly during World War II and ceased publication in 1944. Pulp historian Lee Server suggests that Hogan's talent as a writer kept the magazine alive, since by the last issue, in June 1944, the aircraft it featured had long been obsolete.