William E. Barrett
Mike Molloy and Tommy McNamara were the "Twin Terrors of the Western Front".They flew as if they had been born in Spads, they drank like thirsty whales, and they'd fought by each other's side through every mile of air along the lines and in every bar from the Front to Paris. If there were no more pressing targets, they pounded each other to a pulp, for any reason at all, and were strangely happy.Leading the 24th Pursuit Squadron across WWI Europe's blood red skies, Molloy and McNamara were the bane of the German Air Force. Their names and reputations were known wherever fighting men met with blazing guns or flying fists. Written by William Hartley, the twenty tales of Molloy and McNamara appeared in Dare-Devil Aces between 1936 and 1942. Age of Aces has collected the first eleven of them for this volume.
They said it couldn’t happen here. Then they said one man couldn’t stop it! Richard Wentworth spent his vigilante career as The Spider always in the shadows. Now evil acted in broad daylight. The Party of Justice swept into office, rewriting the laws of New York state overnight to benefit their criminal backers and make slaves of its people. This American Reichstag gave itself sweeping powers and raised a private army to exert its malevolent will. How could The Spider hope to stop a criminal conspiracy as big as the state itself? This time The Master of Men would go beyond taking the lives of evildoers… by bringing Hope to the tyrannized citizens of the Empire State! The “Black Police Trilogy” is author Norvell Page’s classic pulp fiction Nazi allegory from 1938. Originally published in three consecutive months of The Spider Magazine, the novels are collected in book form for the first time!
Before he became a writer for the Pulp magazines, O.B. Myers was a decorated WWI fighter pilot. He is able to bring those experiences to life in his fiction about the air war in Europe. In this volume we introduce you to two of Myers’ best series.
The Black Sheep of Belogue: After his arrest for striking an inept superior officer, Yank ace Dynamite Pike escapes court martial and hides out at a hidden drome in the forest of Belogue. Along with his trusted mechanic Splicer Teale, he wages a private war against the Germans while also trying to evade capture by the Allies. These outlaw eagles, who call themselves “The Black Sheep of Belogue”, blaze an explosive trail through Europe’s war skies!
The Mongol Ace: Crack American pilot Clipper Stark is assigned the terrible task of stopping the seemingly invincible “Mongol Ace”. Janghiz Kaidu, a descendant of Genghis Khan, joins the German army so he can kill more of the hated Russians. Instead he is shipped off to the Western front where he is trained as a pilot. His sadistic nature makes him the Allies’ most feared and despised adversary. Only Clipper Stark can match the Mongol Ace’s ferocious skills. But can even he kill the unkillable?
We also have two articles about Myers’ wartime exploits by fellow pilot Kenneth Porter that originally appeared in Battle Aces in November 1931. The Frederick Blakeslee cover painting depicts the actual dogfight that won O. B. Myers the Distinguished Service Cross.
Once more, The Three Mosquitoes shout out their familiar battle cry: ""Let's Go!" And the three khaki Spads take to the air, flying into terror skies, each sporting the famous Mosquito insignia. In the cockpits sat three warriors who were known wherever men flew as the greatest and most hell raising trio of aces ever to blaze their way through overwhelming odds. Always in front was Kirby, their impetuous young leader. Flanking him on either side were the mild-eyed and corpulent Shorty Carn, and lanky Travis, the eldest and wisest Mosquito.
From the pages of Popular Publications' air war pulp magazines, author Ralph Oppenheim who had never been in an airplane brings us four more unforgettable adventures of this reckless and inseparable trio: The Magic Inferno from Dare-Devil Aces, April 1932; TNT Patrol from Dare-Devil Aces, June 1932; Suicide Patrol from Battle Aces, September 1932; The Flying Stingaree from Battle Birds, September 1933
Murder of the Pigboat Skipper & Murder of the Admiral by Steve Fisher
As chief detective for U.S. Naval Intelligence, Lieutenant Commander Sheridan Doome's job was a grim one. Whenever an extraordinary mystery or crime occurred in the fleet, on a naval base, or anywhere the navy worked to protect American interests, Doome was immediately dispatched to investigate it. Fear and dread would always precede Doome’s arrival in his special black airplane. For, in an explosion during WWI, he had been monstrously disfigured. Much of his skin had been burned away, leaving his head and face an expressionless bone-white lump of scar tissue. But behind the ugliness was a brilliant mind. Sheridan Doome always got his man. Before Sheridan Doome became a staple in the pages of The Shadow magazine, two Doome hardcover mysteries were written in the mid-1930's by acclaimed hard-boiled author Steve Fisher (I Wake Up Screaming) and edited by his wife Edythe Seims (Dime Detective, G-8 and His Battle Aces). Age of Aces now brings you both books in one huge double novel, presented in a retro "flip book" style.
In this grim business of war, The Red Falcon Flies Alone. He carries no flag and owes allegiance to none. But the Falcon is still ready to give the service of his courage, and his guns, to the men who made him an outcast. Join Barry Rand and the great warrior Sika as they fly their patched together plane from their hidden base in the Vosges Mountains to battle the Germans and help win the Great War. In this fourth exciting collection of Robert J. Hogan’s adventures of The Red Falcon, Age of Aces brings you the last of the stories from the Dare-Devil Aces years, including a second cross-over appearance by G-8 and His Battle Aces. Also in this volume is Scott Cranford’s new original story that chronicles The Red Falcon’s beginnings. Stories included: The Invisible Raiders, Boomerang Busters, Hell's Triplets, The Flame Staffel, Black Legion Patrol, Drums of Doom, The Renegade Patrol, The Branded Eagle, Vultures of Vengeance, Flight of the Vultures.
For Chinese Brady, war and excitement were like bread and butter. He was known far and wide as a fierce warrior, a soldier of the world. And after almost twenty years of scrapping in every war and revolution, in every corner of the globe, Brady was going to finally fight under his own flag, as a Captain in the WWI American air force. But rank didn’t matter to him. After all, he had been a Prime Minister in Abyssinia, a General in China, a Major in Honduras, a Chief of Staff in Mexico, and a buck private in Guatemala. What did matter was that he could now bring his savage skills to bear against Germany, to save Europe from the Kaiser and all his evil minions! The tales of Chinese Brady were written by C. M. Miller. They appeared in Popular Publications’ Battle Birds and Dare-Devil Aces from 1933 through 1940, thirteen of them in all. And Age of Aces is bringing them to you, collected for the first time in one volume.
Robert J. Hogan
Age of Aces has released The Red Falcon: The Dare-Devil Aces Years Volume 2. Journey Back to an Age of Aces!
All along the Western Front the Germans curse them "Verdamnt Der Rot Falker!" They were Barry Rand, Yank ace and his giant Senagalese aide, Sika. Their blood-red ship was a patched-up crate of salvaged wreckage-their drome a hidden tarmac in the Vosges Mountains. Yet from Paris to Berlin they were known as the most deadly pair of hellcats that ever blazed a death trail through Boche skies! This exciting second volume of the collected adventures of The Red Falcon by Robert J. Hogan includes the following gripping air-war tales: S.O.S. Patrol, The Falcon Twins, Black Buzzards, The Headless Pilot, and The Invisible Patrol (with guest appearances by Smoke Wade and The Sky Devil).
Also included is David Saunders' in-depth look at the life and art of Popular Publication's master aviation artist, Frederick Blakeslee.
For Jed Garrett, "Captain Babyface" of the American Special Agent's Corps, his order are simple: KILL MR. DEATH!
But who is Mr. Death? One of German's brightest chemists and inventors, he had grown weary of life and entered a monastery near Alsace-Lorraine. But war came and the monastery was bombed. Though severely injured, German surgeons patched him back together. He was left horribly disfigured, and now, sworn to vengeance against the Americans, he uses his evil genius for German in the "War to End All War."
Author Steve Fisher, best known for his hardboiled work in BLACK MASK and in novels like "I Wake Up Screaming," wrote for many other pulps as well. In Popular Publications long-running aviation pulp DARE-DEVIL ACES, he created the ten titanic tales of Captain Babyface. For the first time, they are presented together in one volume.
