Roaring out of the 1930’s comes the greatest heroes to ever fly WWI Europe’s unfriendly skies!
Straight from the tattered pages of Popular Publication’s air war pulps, Age of Aces Books is proud to be able to bring you the best of these heroes. Don’t spend all that time and money tracking down dozens of the crumbling original magazines looking for your favorite aviator. Age of Aces has done that for you. Each of our books contain stories featuring a single exciting character or written by one of your favorite authors. We are also doing some books that are not air war but still have a connection to that era and those magazines. All Age of Aces books are 6 X 9 trade paperback editions, and are available from Amazon.com.
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“Air Feel” by William E. Barrett
It takes more than dude clothes and a shiny helmet to make a pilot—but some people don’t know it.
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Get to Know William E. Barrett
He resigned a promising position to write for magazines and periodicals specializing in “thrillers,” has a contract with the creator of his boyhood hero for one novel a month, besides which he turns out several short stories, sometimes at the rate of 1000 words an hour.
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“The Bat’s Whiskers” by Joe Archibald
Major Garrity was fuming in his lair. Outside, Bump Gillis and the boys were waiting like a lot of palpitating schoolgirls for the axe to fall on Phineas Pinkham. But you know Phineas—the kind of guy who could be thrown into an incinerator and come out covered with ice cream!
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“Hunted Vultures” by Arch Whitehouse
An amazing, hair-raising story of a spectacular air battle and an observer who was bitten by a most peculiar bug. It brought him nothing but trouble until, in the thick of the fight something happened that wasn’t on the program—
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“Sky Trappers” by Frank Richardson Pierce
Ringed by wolves on the frozen waste, his only hope lay in the birdman who dared the arctic solitudes!
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Nick Royce in “Twin Flyers” by Frederick C. Davis
They broke him—made him an outcast in the game he loved best. But he wasn’t through—and in the mile-high contest for a scoop, Nick Royce came back!
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“The Reel Hero” by Joe Archibald
Lights! Camera! Action! Phineas “Carbuncle” Pinkham goes into the movies in a big way! But a lot can happen to a roll of film when Phineas gets up in the air posing as . . . .
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“No More Victories” by Donald E. Keyhoe
A haunting fear crept into Burke’s eyes as he saw his thirteenth Boche go twisting down in flames. For it was a mocking Fate that gave him these victories—victories that he dared not claim!
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“Patrol of the Dead” by Franklin H. Martin
Many strange and weird stories have been told about the war. At some of them men have shrugged their shoulders, and lifted a doubting eyebrow. Others, men have believed—because they must. Here is one of the strangest of them all—the story of a squadron, and the blood-chilling Thing that almost drove them mad. It all began one afternoon bach in 1918, when Ronny Sexton crashed at Hill 420, near Exermont, France, and his smoking-hot motor dug him a six-foot grave. A powerful and unusual novel of war skies.
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Humpy & Tex in “Liberty—or Death” by Allan R. Bosworth
Humpy and Tex were out on liberty, When they couldn’t get that they preferred death, but the reaper has a funny way of choosing its victims.
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