Age of Aces » Colcard Heurlin http://www.ageofaces.net The Best in Air-War Fiction Fri, 15 May 2026 10:00:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 “The Night Bomber” by C. Heurlin http://www.ageofaces.net/2019/04/the-night-bomber-by-c-heurlin/ http://www.ageofaces.net/2019/04/the-night-bomber-by-c-heurlin/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2019 11:00:45 +0000 David http://www.ageofaces.net/?p=8228 THIS week we present a cover by Colcord Heurlin! From 1923 to 1933 Colcord Heurlin painted covers for a wide range of pulp magazines. His work appeared on the covers of Adventure, Aces, Complete Stories, Everybody’s Combined with Romance, North-West Stories, The Popular, Short Stories, Sky Birds, Sea Stories, Top-Notch, War Stories, Western Story, and Flying Aces!

The Night Bomber

th_FA_3102THE tense drama of night bombing is clearly shown in the cover of this month’s issue. Many stories of these Boche bombing raids have been told. First the ominous whir of enemy wings sounded through the night. In the drome below, lights were hastily put out, and helmeted figures scurried to their ships to take to the air and ward off the dreaded danger. Streaks of Archie fire felt futilely through the black night sky for the range—and then the bombs fell, hurtling downward through the darkness on the tarmac beneath.

Sometimes, as in our cover, an Allied ship took off in time to get above the bomber, and a powerful searchlight caught the German ship in its merciless glare. Then, though the Archie shells burst harmlessly about, death tracers from the sputtering Vickers above caught the German gunner. That was one ship that did not flee to Germany unscathed, leaving death and destruction behind.

The Ships on The Cover
“The Night Bomber”
Flying Aces, February 1931 by C. Heurlin

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