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		<title>Premiering at PulpFest 2o25!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Devildog Squadron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald E. Keyhoe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[AGE OF ACES will be back at PulpFest again this year where we will be debuting our two new titles! 

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AGE OF ACES will be back at <a href="http://www.pulpfest.com" target="_blank">PulpFest</a> again this year where we will be debuting our two new titles! </p>
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<p>For those who were disappointed that the Devildogs took a break last year, you&#8217;ll be happy to hear they&#8217;re back with a third volume of their exploits. Paired with that will be the volume of stories Franklin H. Martin had in <em>Aces</em>.</p>
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<p align="center"><strong>Franklin H.Martin&#8217;s Aces</strong><br />
by FRANKLIN H. MARTIN</p>
<p>This volume collects the five stories the enigmatic Martin had in <em>Aces</em> in the August through December issues of 1932 including the epic two part Black Hawk of Prussia story! </p>
<p>He is known as The Black Hawk of Prussia, but just who is von Woolrich? Every description of him is different. Some say he is big and dark. Others claim to have seen him—and say he’s short and slight, with reddish hair. Some rumors describe him as a man who can break a laminated mahogany prop over his knee like a stick of kindling wood. Others say that he is esthetic, an artist and a musician—he is said to have composed several splendid arias before the war. Or maybe he is just a name made up to scare little boys, like a boogy-man. Whatever the case may be, one thing is for certain—von Woolrich, is a master-mind spy!</p>
<p>Stories include: Pilots of the Night (10/32), Zero Patrol (11/32), The Death Parade (8/32), Lone Eagle (9/32) and Blaze of Glory (12/32). Also a special feature on Franklin H. Martin’s winning submission to the<em> Writer’s Digest-Liberty </em>$2,000 Short Story Contest and a bibliography of Martin’s pulp stories</p>
<p>Paired with this is the third volume of Donald E. Keyhoe&#8217;s Mad Marines—The Devildog Squadron! We gave them a rest last year and they are raring to go in five more Weird World War adventures!</p>
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<p align="center"><strong>Devildog Squadron: The Mystery Meteor</strong><br />
by DONALD E. KEYHOE</p>
<p>“Cyclone Bill” Garrity and his Mad Marines are back in the thick of things in five more Weird World War I Adventures from the imaginative pen of Donald E. Keyhoe. Those crazy Germans have come up with even more ways to turn the tide and win the war. Whether it’s going to elaborate lengths to convince an English scientist it is still 1915 and England and Germany are in a war against France to get the formula for a super explosive he invented; raining an extremely deadly and corrosive liquid fire down from the skies killing all in its deadly path; or developing a brilliant silvery beam that can cut anything in it’s way to shreds. If that’s not enough, throw in the fact that the Devildog’s latest replacement is a dead ringer for the Kaiser’s own brother and you’ve got all the making of classic Keyhoe madness!</p>
<p>The Devildog adventures featured in this volume are all from the pages of <em>Sky Birds:</em> Hangers of Hell (8/34), The Spandau Cyclone (10/34), Devildog Dynamite (12/34), The Mystery Meteor (1/35).</p>
<p>In addition to these new books, we&#8217;ll have all of our other titles on hand as well as our previous convention exclusive—Arch Whitehouse&#8217;s <strong>Coffin Kirk</strong>, and 2022&#8217;s two book set of Steve Fisher&#8217;s Sheridan Doome! So if you&#8217;re planning on coming to Pittsburgh for PulpFest this year, stop by our table and say hi and pick up our latest releases!</p>
<p>We hope we see you there!</p>
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		<title>Premiering at PulpFest 2o24!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexis Rossoff]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AGE OF ACES will be back at <a href="http://www.pulpfest.com" target="_blank">PulpFest</a> again this year where we will be debuting our two new titles! </p>
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<p>We&#8217;re taking a break from Donald Keyhoe whose stories we&#8217;ve been reprinting religiously practically every year since 2011—for just this year to start up two new series character collections. Have no fear, Keyhoe&#8217;s Devildog Squadron will return next year.</p>
<p>If you were here at Christmas, then you&#8217;re familiar with Arch Whitehouse&#8217;s Casket Crew. We uploaded the six stories Whitehouse ran in the British version of <em>Air Stories</em> featuring the crew over the holidays. Here we bring you the first volume of their run in <em>Aces</em> magazine.</p>
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<p align="center"><strong>The Casket Crew</strong><br />
by ARCH WHITEHOUSE</p>
<p>One-Oh-Nine Squadron of the Independent Air Force was the craziest bomber squadron on the Western Front and Handley Page No.11 was the reason why. It was flown by The Casket Crew: Lieutenant Graham Townsend, the mad Englishman, pilot of No.11; Lieutenant Phil Armitage, equally crazy American, the reserve pilot and bombing officer; Corporal Andy McGregor, wearing his Black Watch kilts, aerial gunner; with Sergeant Michael Ryan, silent fighting Irishman on the toggle board and Corporal Harry Marks, dizzy Australian, manning the rear gun-turret. There was enough insanity scrawled across the log book of No.11 to make the wildest fiction seem tame in comparison! </p>
<p>The extraordinarily prolific Arch Whitehouse drew upon his own experiences as a tail-gunner in the Royal Air Force to bring to life the colorful aces that flew through his stories. His characters for Flying Aces and Sky Birds were extremely popular with readers of the 1930’s and ’40s. The Casket Crew was his only series outside those magazines, running in the pages of Aces and Wings. This exciting collection features five crazy exploits from Aces Magazine: Lost Wings (8/31), Terror Turret (2/32), Handley Hate (5/32), The Flying Fortress (6/32), and Thunder Patrol (9/32).</p>
<p>Paired with this is the first volume of Alexis Rossoff&#8217;s Hell-Cat Squadron! We&#8217;ve posted a couple Hell-Cat stories from <em>War Birds</em>, but the series was rebooted when it moved to <em>Flying Aces</em> so that seemed like a good place to start.</p>
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<p align="center"><strong>The Hell-Cat Squadron: Cyclops of the Skies</strong><br />
by ALEXIS ROSSOFF</p>
<p>The order came direct from G.H.Q.: “Send one undesirable pilot of your organization to Alons. Arrange pilot’s departure from your drome so that he will reach destination not earlier than second hour nor later than third hour after noon, twenty-eighth day this month.” Never was an order complied with more promptly as thirty cursing, rebelious undesirables found themselves thrown together in the doomed, scorched region known by all as Hell’s Half Acre. There, under the command of “Iron” Mike Hilton, himself ostrasized for questioning his superiors, they became the Hell-Cats! </p>
<p>Siberian-born, Russian war veteran Alexis Rossoff started writing air and war fiction stories in the late 1920’s as his eyesight slowly faded away. The adventures in this volume are from 1931 to 1932. After a successful operation to restore his vision in the mid thirties, Rossoff, a self-professed boxing nut, switched from primarily writing air war fiction to writing sports stories. This action-packed tome compiles six thrilling adventures from the pages of Flying Aces Magazine: Hell-Cat Harvest (1/31), The Old Man’s Whiskers (2/31), The Hell-Cat’s Kittens (3/31), The Cyclops of the Skies (6/31), Rusty Rides the Thunderbolt (12/31), and The Black Moth (1/32).</p>
<p>In addition to these new books, we&#8217;ll have all of our other titles on hand as well as our previous convention exclusive—Arch Whitehouse&#8217;s <strong>Coffin Kirk</strong>, and 2022&#8217;s two book set of Steve Fisher&#8217;s Sheridan Doome! So if you&#8217;re planning on coming to Pittsburgh for PulpFest this year, stop by our table and say hi and pick up our latest releases!</p>
<p>We hope we see you there!</p>
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		<title>Premiering at PulpFest 2023!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2023 10:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AGE OF ACES will be back at <a href="http://www.pulpfest.com" target="_blank">PulpFest</a> again this year where we will be debuting our two new titles! </p>
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<p>First up is another collection of tales of that Inseparable trioâ€”The Three Mosquitoes!</p>
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<p align="center"><strong>The Adventures of the Three Mosquitoes: The Night Monster</strong><br />
by RALPH OPPENHEIM</p>
<p>THE Three Mosquitoesâ€”Kirby, the Dâ€™Artagnan of the group, led the formation even though he was the youngest, but his amazing skills had won him the position of leader of the trio. On his right flew â€œShortyâ€ Carn, bald, stocky, and mild of eye, but nevertheless a dead shot with a gun. On his left flew Travis, the oldest and wisest of the trio, whose lanky legs made it difficult for him to adjust himself in the little cockpit. With their customary battle cryâ€”<em>â€œLetâ€™s go!â€</em>â€”theyâ€™re off on another dangerous mission in perilous skies!</p>
<p>Ralph Oppenheimâ€™s Three Mosquitoes was one of the longest running aviation series to never have its own magazine. They flew for twelve years, through nine different magazines in over five dozen stories! This thrilling volume collects four action-packed adventures from the pages of Popular Publicationsâ€™ <em>Dare-Devil Aces:</em> The Night Monster (2/32), The Crimson Ace (7/32), The Rocket Ace (11/32), and The Secret Ace Patrol (6/33).</p>
<p>Paired with this is the second volume of Donald E. Keyhoe&#8217;s Fighting Marinesâ€”The Devildog Squadron!</p>
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<p align="center"><strong>Devildog Squadron: The Flying Juggernaut</strong><br />
by DONALD E. KEYHOE</p>
<p>â€œCYCLONE BILLâ€ Garrity and his Mad Marines are back in the thick of things in six more Weird World War I Adventures from the imaginative pen of Donald E. Keyhoe. Those crazy Germans have come up with even more ways to turn the tide and win the war. Operating from airfields hidden in the sides of cliffs under a waterfall, beneath an impenetrable dome, or simply under camouflage nets, the Germans unleash everything from deadly rays that can wipe an entire drome off the face of the earth; the dead pilots flying again; a tank as large as a city block and just as tall that can flatten everything in itâ€™s path; and the cloak of death itself lurking in the night sky ready to suck the life out of anything it should happen to touchâ€“â€“both pilot and plane!</p>
<p>The Devildog adventures featured in this volume are all from the pages of <em>Sky Birds:</em> Devildog Doom (6/32), Luckyâ€™s Day (8/32), The Devildogsâ€™ Decoy (1/33), The Flying Juggernaut (2/33), The Squadron Nobody Knew (7/33), and Devildog Breed (7/34).</p>
<p>In addition to these new books, weâ€™ll have all of our other titles on hand as well as our previous convention exclusiveâ€”Arch Whitehouseâ€™s <strong>Coffin Kirk</strong>, and last year&#8217;s two book set of Steve Fisher&#8217;s Sheridan Doome! So if youâ€™re planning on coming to Pittsburgh for PulpFest this year, stop by our table and say hi and pick up our latest releases! We hope we see you there!</p>
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		<title>Premiering at PulpFest 2022!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2022 10:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reprints]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[AGE OF ACES will be back at PulpFest again this year where we will be debuting our new titles! ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AGE OF ACES will be back at <a href="http://www.pulpfest.com" target="_blank">PulpFest</a> again this year where we will be debuting our new titles! </p>
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<p>First up is the third and final volume of Robert J. Hogan&#8217;s lanky cow-poke of the Western Front, Smoke Wade! Robert J. Hogan pulled from his varied experiences as a ranch hand, a pilot, and a flight instructor to breath life into Smoke Wade in 1931. This sizable third and final volume of Smoke Wadeâ€™s exploits, covering 1933-1938, collects his last 18 adventures from the pages of <em>Battle Birds</em> and <em>Dare-Devil Aces,</em> before his stories moved to the back pages of Hoganâ€™s <em>G-8 and his Battle Aces!</em></p>
<p align="center"><strong>The Adventures of Smoke Wade: Volume III</strong></p>
<p>FLYING through the Hell-Skies of the Western front in a Pinto-colored spad he named Jake, after his favorite ranch pony, Smoke Wade and the pilots of the 66th Pursuit fight their way out of one tight spot after another in their battle to put an end to the evil Baron von Stolz, Germanyâ€™s top Ace. But when the chips are down, donâ€™t bet against Smoke Wade!</p>
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<p>We&#8217;ve paired this with the first in a series of four books with Donald E. Keyhoe&#8217;s Mad Marinesâ€”Devildog Squadronâ€”in eight Weird World War I Adventures from the pages of <em>Sky Birds!</em></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Devildog Squadron: The Crimson Fog</strong></p>
<p>MEET â€œCyclone Billâ€ Garrity. Square of jaw and stern of eye, he was the big, hard-boiled C.O. of the 28th Pursuitâ€”a squadron of 27 of the maddest Marines on the Western Front: there was Hick Jones, the tall, lanky Texan who was second in command; Larry Brent, the youthful leader of B Flight; and Lucky Lane and his three lunaticsâ€”the solemn-looking Mack Tuttle, Benny Sparks, and the big Irish lug, Pug Flanaganâ€”to name just a few. They may have been hard drinkers with no concept of regulations, but they were all two-fisted fighters in the air, able to out-maneuver, out-fly, and out-scrap any bizarre menace that came their way. They wereâ€”as the enraged Boche had labeled them, <em>der Teufelhund Jagdstaffel</em>â€”THE DEVILDOG SQUADRON! </p>
<p>AND, as if that wasn&#8217;t enough, we are also re-issuing our one long out of print titleâ€”Sheridan Doome! Originally presented in a retro â€œflip bookâ€ style back in 2008 as our 9th book, Sheridan Doome collected the two hardcover adventures of the U.S. Naval Intelligence Lieutenant Commander. Before Sheridan Doome became a staple in the pages of <em>The Shadow </em>magazine, two Doome hardcover mysteries were written in the mid-1930â€™s by acclaimed hard-boiled author Steve Fisher (I Wake Up Screaming) and edited by his wife Edythe Seims (<em>Dime Detective, G-8 and His Battle Aces</em>).</p>
<p align="center"><strong>The Murder of the Admiral and The Murder of the Pigboat Skipper</strong></p>
<p>AS CHIEF detective for U.S. Naval Intelligence, Lieutenant Commander Sheridan Doomeâ€™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 Doomeâ€™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. </p>
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<p>Both Sheridan Doome books are priced to sell at $7.99 a piece!</p>
<p>In addition to these new books, weâ€™ll have all of our other titles on hand as well as our previous convention exclusiveâ€”Arch Whitehouseâ€™s <strong>Coffin Kirk</strong>. So if youâ€™re planning on coming to Pittsburgh for PulpFest this year, stop by our table and say hi and pick up our latest releases! We hope we see you there!</p>
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		<title>Cowboys of the Air</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2022 10:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the Aerial Lasso Which Covers a Circular Space as Great as Six Hundred Feet, Catches the Enemy Plane in Its Enmeshing Wires]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HERE&#8217;S and interesting article from the pages of the San Francisco Chronicle in 1918 theorizing about a new &#8220;Lasso&#8221; bomb that would &#8220;rope&#8221; an enemy when exploded near their plane. Sounds like the kind of thing that should come from the pages of Robert J. Hogan&#8217;s six-gun ace, Smoke Wade, but is actually from the father of Science-Fiction himself, <a href="http://scihi.org/science-fiction-hugo-gernsback/" target="_blank">Hugo Gernsback,</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electrical_Experimenter" target="_blank"><em>The Electrical Experimenter!</em></a></p>
<h3>&#8220;Cowboys&#8221; of the Air</h3>
<p><font size="-2">The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California â€¢ 22 September 1918</font></p>
<p><strong>How The New Lasso Shell Makes Possible the Rare and Exciting Sport of Roping Hostile Airplanes</strong></p>
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<p>&#8220;ARCHIES,&#8221; as anti-aircraft guns are called, throughout the war have been blazing away at Hun airplanes and scoring some remarkable hits. However, military experts are of the opinion that it is impossible to stop an aerial raid by means of anti-aircraft guns alone. Notwithstanding the fact that the armed aeroplane Itself is probably the most effective means of downing enemy planes, there is a long felt want of some other method of clearing the skies of raiders.</p>
<p>With this idea in mind Mr. H. Gernsbeck, editor of the Electrical Experimenter, has perfected a plan which he says, to a certain degree, will accomplish such a result. The principle of this writer&#8217;s device, which is illustrated and described in the Electrical Experimenter, centres upon the &#8220;chain-shot,&#8221; which was nothing else but chaining several cannon balls together and shooting them at the enemy with devastating results. As the erratic flight of such a device made it extremely inefficient, it was soon given up and came into disuse.</p>
<p>â€œIn my device,â€ says Mr. Gernsbeck, &#8220;I propose the use of a &#8216;mother-shell&#8217; containing two explosive bombs, as well as two â€™liquid-fire&#8217; bombs. Each one of these bombs has a smaller companionâ€”a heavy lead ball, the purpose of which is explained later. </p>
<p>&#8220;All of the bombs and bails are normally housed in the metal mother-shell which need not be very heavy, as it does not contain any explosive charge itself. All the bombs are kept in their respective places by means of a casing composed of eight pieces of reasonably thin steel. These pieces are released from the mother-shell, and fly off as soon as the time mechanism located at the apex of the mother-shell permits this. This time mechanism works on the principle of the one used on shrapnel, the purpose of the present device being to keep the mother-shell intact till it comes within a few hundred feet of the aeroplane under attack. This, of course, makes for great accuracy, as the mother-shell can be accurately timed, and being a self-contained shell like any other, its flight will naturally be true.</p>
<p>&#8220;The mother-shell In addition is &#8216;rifled,â€™ exactly like other big shells. A rifled shell while still in the cannon is made to turn on its axis by following a corkscrew path cut Into the inner walls of the cannon. This Imparts a spinning action to the shell which it maintains during its entire flight. So while the shell flies over its course with its nose pointed at its target, it also spins like a top. This spinning action, it has been found, keeps the shell better on its course than if it did not spin.</p>
<p>&#8220;In the case of the rifled mother-shell, another distinct advantage is had. Aside from keeping the shell on a true course as soon as the time mechanism acts, the pieces of the casing are thrown violently outward by centrifugal action. The same is the case of the four bombs which art hurled outwardly as shown in the illustration. Each set of bombs and balls are attached to a central steel ring by meant of a thin, but tremendously strong steel piano wire. Each wire may be from two hundred to three hundred feet long as desired. But as the mother-shell and the various bombs still have their rotary (spinning) motion, it follows that the entire device will continue to revolve not unlike a miniature planetary system. The four piano wires will be straight and taut, and as they cut the air at a great rate of speed, they will probably &#8217;sing&#8217; with a weird as well as a shrill note.</p>
<p>&#8220;We now have an aerial lasso covering a circular space of from four hundred to six hundred feet, all depending upon the length of the piano wires.</p>
<p>&#8220;Woe to the enemy aeroplane flying into it, or which is overtaken by it! There can be no escape. If either of the two contact-exploding bombs touch the aeroplane, it will be wrecked by the terrific ensuing explosion. If either of the contact-flame bombs touch, liquid fire kill be sprayed over wings or fuselage, setting the plane on fire.</p>
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<p>&#8220;But let us suppose that neither type of bomb were effective, or touched only non-vltal parts of the enemy plane. Here it is where the lead balls take up their deadly work. Suppose all the four bombs bad been exploded. If it were not for the four lead balls, the four piano wires would simply go limp and the fight would be over. But having these lead balls spaced about ten feet from the explosive bombs, they will not be affected at all after the former have been set off.</p>
<p>&#8220;The planetary system, broadly speaking, still remains intact, although now we have only four &#8216;moons&#8217; left. But suppose only one of them manages to get entangled in the trusswork of the enemy plane. Immediately the flight of the entire system is stopped abruptly and the three other balls come whining around, snarling up the entire plane and breaking the wings, fuselage or tail as they come crashing down at a terrific speed.</p>
<p>&#8220;You have read of the terrible Mexican lasso, the Bolas, which is a lasso with lead balls. It works on the same principle as the aerial lasso, only the latter having lead balls weighing several pounds apiece, will cause correspondingly greater havoc, especially on a comparatively fragile aeroplane.</p>
<p>&#8220;Perhaps you have read accounts of aerial fliers and their dread to intercept the course of even the smallest bird. It is a well known fact that an aeroplane propeller revolving at its great speed, will be instantly shattered if a bird as small as a sparrow flies into it. Therefore it may be imagined what a large load ball, or a powerful piano wire will do to a propeller should either come in contact with it.&#8221;</p>
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<p>And look for Smoke Wade to return real soon in a new volume of rip-snortin&#8217; air adventures!</p>
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		<title>New Books Premiering at PulpFest!</title>
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First up is The Black Falcon by Arthur J. Burks. 

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AFTER a year-long Covid delay, Age of Aces Books has returned with two new books. We&#8217;ll be premiering them at <a href="https://pulpfest.com" target="_blank">PulpFest 2021</a> this week.</p>
<p>First up is <strong>The Black Falcon</strong> by Arthur J. Burks. </p>
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<p>Selected by Black Jack Pershing himself for an impossible assignment, Lt. Evan Post was volunteered to drive Germanyâ€™s top five aces out of the sky. Orders were sent ahead to see that he was given every cooperation by any allied post of command he would work out of. With the biggest, blackest, ugliest bird painted on his red planeâ€™s fuselage, Post worked the list. And with every German Ace he downed, Evan Post became known as The Black Falcon!</p>
<p>Arthur J. Burks never met a story he couldnâ€™t write. Although he was known to be able to craft a story about anything suggested to him, he was probably best known for his weird menace and detective stories. He wrote six stories with The Black Falcon for Sky Fighters magazine, with a nice continuity running through them. So much so, when he published the sixth story, two years after the initial five, The Black Falcon was a mythic character the young recruits had only heard of.</p>
<p>Stories Include: The Black Falcon (Oct 33), The Balloon Buster (Feb 34), Falcon Fury (Mar 34), The Falcon Flies High (Apr 34), Claws of the Falcon (Jun 34), and Black Falconâ€™s Return (Jul 36).</p>
<p>Our second book is the ninth and final volume of Donald E. Keyhoe&#8217;s Captain Philip Strange Adventuresâ€”<strong>Strange Rivals</strong>.</p>
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<p>Captain Philip Strange is back in nine more weird WWI stories! A mental marvel from birth, who used his talents on stage as a boy, Philip Strange is now known as â€œThe Phantom Ace of G-2â€³ by the Allies during WWI and the verdamnt Brain-Devil by the Boche. In these stories from the end of the series run, The Brain-Devilâ€™s arch nemesis, Karl von Zenden, the quick-change Man of a Thousand Faces resurfaces to wreak havoc and cause more troubleâ€”from aerodromes peopled with corpses to pirate staffels to German Officials dropped over Paris to gases of forgetfulness to all of England disappearing! Von Zenden does his worst! Thankfully, we have have Captain Philip Strange on our side to stop them in some of his strangest cases yet from the pages of Flying Aces magazine!</p>
<p>Stories Include: Dead Manâ€™s Drone (Jun 37), Skeletons From the Sky (Dec 37), Scourge of Oblivion (Apr 38), Pirate Squadron (Jun 38), The Gray Face Ace (Oct 28), Strafe of the Skull (Dec 38), Raid of the Wraith (Mar 39), Flight of the Phantoms (Aug 39), and When England Vanished (Nov 39).</p>
<p>In addition to our two new titles, we&#8217;ll have all of our previous titles that are still in print as well as some fun extras include an 11&#8243; x 14&#8243; art print of all 64 splash opens for the Philip Strange stories in order from &#8220;A Squadron Shall Perish&#8221; to &#8220;When England Vanished&#8221;. If you&#8217;re at the show, stop by, say &#8220;Hi&#8221; and pick up a copy. (Quantities are limited.)</p>
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<p>CAPTAIN PHILIP STRANGE returns to face off against the Man of 1000 Faces, Karl Von Zenden in the final volume of the series, Strange Rivals! </p>
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		<title>Donald Keyhoe: To Tell The Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2017 10:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN 1956, Donald E. Keyhoe co-founded the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). He was one of several prominent professional, military or scientific figures on the board of directors, which lent the group a degree of legitimacy many of the other contemporary &#8220;flying saucer clubs&#8221; sorely lacked. With Keyhoe in the lead, NICAP pressed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>IN 1956, Donald E. Keyhoe co-founded the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). He was one of several prominent professional, military or scientific figures on the board of directors, which lent the group a degree of legitimacy many of the other contemporary &#8220;flying saucer clubs&#8221; sorely lacked. With Keyhoe in the lead, NICAP pressed hard for Congressional hearings and investigation into UFOs. They scored some attention from the mass media, and the general public (NICAP&#8217;s membership peaked at about 15,000 during the early and mid-1960s) but only very limited interest from government officials.</p>
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<p>Following a widely publicized wave of UFO reports in early 1966, the popular CBS panel show, <strong>To Tell The Truth</strong> featured UFO Investigator Major Donald Keyhoe as a guest on April 11th, 1966. Hosted by Bud Collyer, a panel of four celebritiesâ€”Tom Poston, Peggy Cass, Orson Bean, and Kitty Carlisleâ€”question three people all claiming to be UFO Investigator Donald Keyhoe and must determine who is telling the truth.</p>
<p>As he states in his sworn affidavit:</p>
<blockquote><p align="justify">I, Donald Keyhoe, am a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, a retired Marine Corps pilot and have been an aviation writer for many years. Currently I am working in Washington DC as director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. NICAP is a scientific organization which was especially created 10 years ago to investigate the facts surrounding unidentified flying object known as ufos or flying saucers. Recently there&#8217;s been another rash of reports of strange things in the sky. in the past 20 years there have been over 10,000 such sightings of UFOs. While many of these flying objects have been satisfactorily explained as a result of natural phenomena, others so far defy logical explanation. It is the position of NICAP that there is nothing to be gained by secrecy and that a thorough and intensive scientific investigation of unidentified flying objects would give the subject the dignity and importance it deserves and quite possibly reveal some startling facts.</p>
<p align="right"> signed Major Donald Keyhoe.</p>
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<p align="center"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWuvyHOuWkY" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.ageofaces.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/lineup.jpg" width="96%"></a><br /><font size="-2">Three men all claiming to be Major Donald Keyhoe on <br /><strong>TO TELL THE TRUTH</strong> from April 11, 1966.</font></p>
<p>Click on either image to enjoy the show. Unfortunately for the imposters, Keyhoe knows his facts cold.</p>
<p>As a bonus: See if you can spot <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVKw8dvml9w" target="_blank">Tony Goodstone</a>, author of the seminal <strong>The Pulps</strong> as he and two imposters try to fool the panel!<br />
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<p align="justify">And be sure to <img src="http://www.ageofaces.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/th_hell.jpg" align="left" height="144" vspace="5" hspace="5"> check out the latest volume of Donald E. Keyhoe&#8217;s Philip Strangeâ€”<a href="http://www.ageofaces.net/our-books/captain-philip-strange-strangehell/" target="_blank"><strong>Captain Philip Strange: Strange Hell</strong></a>â€”The German Empire has unleased Hell on Earth! The dead are climbing out of their graves and giant skeletons attack the living. Heads are detonating and soldiers are turning to bronze. But flying to the rescue like an avenging angel is Americaâ€™s own â€œBrain Devil,â€ Captain Philip Strange, the phantom ace of G-2 Intelligence. Whether itâ€™s deadly bridges or killer broadcasts, when the Allies need a miracle they pray for Philip Strange! When World War I gets weird, only Americaâ€™s own â€œPhantom Ace of G-2â€ has a ghost of a chance against the supernatural slaughter. Captain Philip Strange in his strangest cases yet from the pages of Flying Aces magazine!</p>
<p>Pick up your copy today at all the usual outletsâ€”<a href="http://adventurehouse.com/shop/" target="_blank">Adventure House</a>, <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mikechomkobooks/Home" target="_blank">Mike Chomko Books</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com" target="_blank">Amazon</a>!</p>
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		<title>The Real Strange War: Capt. Fernand Jacquet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2017 10:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donald E. Keyhoe&#8217;s Philip Strange battles all manner of strange and wild planes and their pilots. How many times has the &#8216;Brain-Devil of G-2&#8242; come up against planes or pilots that seem to be skeletons floating in the inky darkness of night? Too many times. But maybe all that wasn&#8217;t just from the fertile imagination [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Donald E. Keyhoe&#8217;s Philip Strange battles all manner of strange and wild planes and their pilots. How many times has the &#8216;Brain-Devil of G-2&#8242; come up against planes or pilots that seem to be skeletons floating in the inky darkness of night? Too many times. But maybe all that wasn&#8217;t just from the fertile imagination of Mr. Keyhoe. . . </p>
<p>Case in point: Captain Fernand Jacquet. Jacquet was Belgium&#8217;s first pilot to score an arial victory, and subsequently became that country&#8217;s first ace! And he did all of this primarily while flying a <a href="http://www.swroble.com/Aircraft/Contents/FarmanF40/FrenchF40.htm" target="_blank">Farman F.40</a>! Inspired by Roland Garros, who had equipped a Morane monoplane with a machine gun, Jacquet fitted one to his Farman pusherâ€”a biplane used primarily for reconnaissance and observation. By mid-1916, he had painted the nose of his plane with a ghoulish insignia of a skull. </p>
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<p>Jacquet survived the war with 7 credited victories (and 2 uncredited) and was the only Belgian awarded the British Distinguished Flying Cross. He left the Belgian military in 1921 and with his old gunner Louis Robin, he started a flying school near Charleroi, at Gosselies.</p>
<p>When the Germans once again invaded Belgium, at the start of World War II, Jacquet returned to his nation&#8217;s serviceâ€”as an active member of the Belgian Resistance until he was imprisoned in Huy Fortress in 1942 where he was held until war&#8217;s end.</p>
<p>Fernand Jacquet died in Beaumont, Belgium, on October 12th, 1947.</p>
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<p align="justify">You can read more <img src="http://www.ageofaces.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/th_hell.jpg" align="left" height="144" vspace="5" hspace="5"> of Donald E. Keyhoe&#8217;s Philip Strange tales in the latest volume of his collected adventuresâ€”<a href="http://www.ageofaces.net/our-books/captain-philip-strange-strangehell/" target="_blank"><strong>Captain Philip Strange: Strange Hell</strong></a>â€”The German Empire has unleased Hell on Earth! The dead are climbing out of their graves and giant skeletons attack the living. Heads are detonating and soldiers are turning to bronze. But flying to the rescue like an avenging angel is Americaâ€™s own â€œBrain Devil,â€ Captain Philip Strange, the phantom ace of G-2 Intelligence. Whether itâ€™s deadly bridges or killer broadcasts, when the Allies need a miracle they pray for Philip Strange! When World War I gets weird, only Americaâ€™s own â€œPhantom Ace of G-2â€ has a ghost of a chance against the supernatural slaughter. Captain Philip Strange in his strangest cases yet from the pages of Flying Aces magazine!</p>
<p>Pick up your copy today at all the usual outletsâ€”<a href="http://adventurehouse.com/shop/" target="_blank">Adventure House</a>, <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mikechomkobooks/Home" target="_blank">Mike Chomko Books</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com" target="_blank">Amazon</a>!</p>
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IF YOU can&#8217;t make it to PulpFest in Columbus this weekend, you can still get copies of our new books online from the usual outlets. Both of our new booksâ€”Harold F. Cruickshank&#8217;s Sky Devil: Ace of Devils and Donald E. Keyhoe&#8217;s Captain Philip Strange: Strange Hellâ€”are now available to order online from Adventure House, Mike [...]]]></description>
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<p>IF YOU can&#8217;t make it to PulpFest in Columbus this weekend, you can still get copies of our new books online from the usual outlets. Both of our new booksâ€”Harold F. Cruickshank&#8217;s <strong>Sky Devil: Ace of Devils</strong> and Donald E. Keyhoe&#8217;s <strong>Captain Philip Strange: Strange Hell</strong>â€”are now available to order online from <a href="http://adventurehouse.com/shop/" target="_blank">Adventure House</a>, <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mikechomkobooks/Home" target="_blank">Mike Chomko Books</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com" target="_blank">Amazon</a>!</p>
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<p>While you&#8217;re waiting for the books to arrive, why not check out some of the extras we&#8217;ve put on line for each book to whet your appetite. For Cruickshank&#8217;s second volume of Sky Devil tales <a href="http://www.ageofaces.net/our-books/sky-devil-ace-of-devils/" target="_blank"><strong>Ace of Devils</strong></a> we&#8217;ve posted the <a href="http://www.ageofaces.net/our-books/sky-devil-ace-of-devils/the-sky-devil-art/" target="_blank">original pulp scans</a> from <em>Dare-Devil Aces</em> magazine of the opening page art so you can see how it would have looked if you were reading the stories back in the 1930&#8217;s when they were originally published. You can also read the opening of the stories in the scans.</p>
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<p>For the latest release of the weird World War I adventures of Donald E. Keyhoe&#8217;s Captain Philip Strange we have the original <a href="http://www.ageofaces.net/our-books/captain-philip-strange-strangehell/captain-philip-strange-strangehellart/" target="_blank">full page scans</a> of the opening artwork for each of the six stories collected in <a href="http://www.ageofaces.net/our-books/captain-philip-strange-strangehell/" target="_blank"><strong>Strange Hell</strong></a>! As we did for the last volume, we&#8217;re posting the full page scan so you can read a bit of story and enjoy <a href="http://www.ageofaces.net/authors-artists/eugene-m-frandzen/" target="_blank">Eugene M. Frandzen&#8217;s</a> art in all its glory from the pages of <em>Flying Aces </em>magazine. Painton&#8217;s Squadron also uses Frandzen&#8217;s art, but here in the bedsheet sized issues of Flying Aces you get those glorious painted images Frandzen would doâ€”much better than his line art.</p>
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<p>And the <em>piece de resistance</em> of any Strange bookâ€”Chris&#8217; great cutout artwork he does for each of the stories! There are only six this timeâ€”but they&#8217;re all winners. You can check them out on the <a href="http://www.ageofaces.net/our-books/captain-philip-strange-strangehell/strange-hell-design/" target="_blank">Strange Hell Design</a> page!</p>
<p>Both books are available for $16.99 wherever our books are sold, so pick up both today! You can order online from <a href="http://adventurehouse.com/shop/" target="_blank">Adventure House</a>, <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mikechomkobooks/Home" target="_blank">Mike Chomko Books</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com" target="_blank">Amazon</a>!</p>
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