Journey back to an Age of Aces! 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.
Editor Bill Mann, Art Director Chris Kalb and Designer David Kalb will bring you back to those wild, dog fighting days of the first half of the 20th Century with these beautifully designed books. The text has been re-set, but Chris and David painstakingly preserve the original illustrations from a bygone era; illustrations by the best artists to have illustrated the aviation pulps—Frederick Blakeslee, John Fleming Gould, and Eugene M. Frandzen.
All Age of Aces books are 6 X 9 trade paperback editions, and are available from Amazon.com.
by Robert M. Burtt
Grogan, an American pilot, commands the all-Chinese “Dragon Squadron†in their battle against the invading Japanese along with his three valiant flight commanders: Monty St. John, the lanky Limey; slender Hank Goyen, the dapper Frog; and last but not least, the imperturbable Ah Im, Grogan’s boyhood chum of old Nanking days, now premier olive-toned ace of the Dragon clan. Never before has the struggle been so fierce or the danger of Oriental treachery so great!
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by Steve Fisher
For Jed Garrett, "Captain Babyface" of the American Special Agent's Corps, his orders are simple: Kill Mr. Death! But who is Mr. Death? One of Germany’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. Horribly disfigured he has now sworn to vengeance against the Americans!
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by Donald E. Keyhoe
Facing Strange Deaths!
From his very first adventure, Captain Philip Strange has rooted out only the most bizarre battalions commissioned by Germany in the Great War. When flying coffins circle the air, or severed hands drop from the sky, the call goes out for the Phantom Ace of G-2 Intelligence. For the Allies know that only the so-called “Brain-Devil†and his aides can out-fly the zombie traitors and human bombs, or out-spy fiends like The Mask and the Man with the Iron Claw!
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by Donald E. Keyhoe
Once they were just two young lovers, pledging their devotion in a Mecklenberg garden. Now they are reluctant rivals enmeshed in the biggest conflict the world had ever seen. While the Great War had forged him into the so-called Brain-Devil, America’s top agent, she had become the famous Fraulein Doktor, Germany’s most alluring and elusive spy. When love and loyalty collide in eight epic tales of WWI aviation and intrigue, the bullets—and the sparks—are going to fly.
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by Donald E. Keyhoe
Entering a Strange Hell!
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 America’s own “Brain Devil,†Captain Philip Strange, the phantom ace of G-2 Intelligence. Whether it’s deadly bridges or killer broadcasts, when the Allies need a miracle they pray for Philip Strange!
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by Donald E. Keyhoe
A boyhood prank comes back to haunt the Brain-Devil when he meets his vaudeville nemesis in the Theater of War. Karl von Zenden, the quick-change Man of a Thousand Faces, is now using his stage tricks as agent Z-13 for the Wilhelmstrasse—and he's not one to drop the curtain on a grudge. Now backstage rivals are front-line enemies in an exclusive engagement of "Spy vs. Spy." When Strange gets into the act and uses his own makeup-mastery, the Great War becomes the Greatest Show on Earth.
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by Donald E. Keyhoe
A war between Strange Rivals!
Arch competitors on stage become deadly enemies in war! Philip Strange, the Mental Marvel, meets Karl von Zenden, the Man of a Thousand Faces, in a return engagement. Step right up for the craziest double-bill in peace or in conflict. Also appearing for a limited time: flying skeletons, ghost aces, and sky pirates. Can America’s “Brain-Devil†bring down the curtain on this cursed menagerie, or will he finally be upstaged by his evil opposite?
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by Donald E. Keyhoe
Beware Strange Spectres!
Captain Philip Strange in his strangest cases yet!
“Horrors of war†takes on a whole new meaning when WWI erupts with paranormal activity: Flaming planes piloted by charred skeletons; Battleship crews that mysteriously vanish; Medieval knights falling from the sky; The spirit of the Red Baron himself haunting the frontlines! When World War I gets weird, only America’s own “Phantom Ace of G-2†has a ghost of a chance against the supernatural slaughter.
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by Donald E. Keyhoe
Battling Strange Squadrons! From his very first adventure, Captain Philip Strange has rooted out only the most bizarre battalions commissioned by Germany in the Great War. When flying coffins circle the air, or severed hands drop from the sky, the call goes out for the Phantom Ace of G-2 Intelligence. For the Allies know that only the so-called “Brain-Devil†and his aides can out-fly the zombie traitors and human bombs, or out-spy fiends like The Mask and the Man with the Iron Claw!
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by Donald E. Keyhoe
Combating Strange Staffels!
America’s enemies have assembled squadrons of flying furies, exploding skeletons, and invisible airplanes to turn the tide of the First World War. But when things get weird, we get Strange. Captain Philip Strange, that is—ace pilot and so-called “Brain-Devil†of G-2 Intelligence. His assignment? Journey from the backalleys of Paris to the skies over Germany, taking down flying fortresses, cursed aerodromes, strafing skulls, and other wild weapons of mass destruction!
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by Donald E. Keyhoe
In Donald E. Keyhoe's imaginings, the stormy skies of World War I are filled with giant pterodactyls, mystic fireballs and demon aces. But America has its own unnatural secret weapon: Captain Philip Strange. A mental marvel from birth, he was so terrifyingly effective that the Allies referred to him as "The Phantom Ace of G-2." But to the Germans he was "The Brain-Devil," whose penetrating green eyes were both a legend and a nightmare.
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by C.M. Miller
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. He could now bring his savage skills to bear against the Kaiser and all his evil minions!
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by Donald E. Keyhoe
Meet “Cyclone Bill†Garrity. Square of jaw and stern of eye, he was the big, hard-boiled C.O. of the 28th Pursuit—a squadron of 27 of the maddest Marines on the Western Front! 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 were, as the enraged Boche had labeled them, der Teufelhund Jagdstaffel—the Devildog Squadron!
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by Donald E. Keyhoe
“Cyclone Bill†Garrity and his Mad Marines are back in six more Weird World War I adventures. Operating from airfields hidden behind waterfalls, or beneath impenetrable domes, or simply under camouflage nets, the Boche unleash a myriad of merciless menaces: deadly rays that can wipe an entire drome off the face of the earth; dead pilots that are resurrected to kill again with poisonous green smoke; a tank as large as a city block that can flatten everything in it’s path; and the cloak of death itself that is able to suck the life out of anything it might touch––both pilot and plane!
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by Steve Fisher
A big gray dreadnaught was plunged into a night of horrors! It was reported as a suicide, but the death of the Admiral was a murder. The proof was in his stateroom—a clue so damning that a killer was hung by it. Everyone could see it, yet the only person who recognized its significance was Sheridan Doome, an ace of the Naval Intelligence. Doome is a detective who does not blunder or miss a clue; a ruthless sleuth, but a warmhearted human being. Murder of the Admiral is the first in this series.
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by Steve Fisher
The horror of murder came with cataclysmic abruptness . . . Skipper Rex Brandon dead! The pigboat called back, and Sheridan Doome of the Naval Intelligence is summoned to the islands to probe the mystery. A host of people move before his light of suspicion: Maggie Millaradscoba, the rooming house hag; the victim’s flirtatious wife; jaunty Tim Sanders; unhappy lieutenant Leo Masters; beautiful Sally Benson; and the debutante who waits on tables . . . all with their own stories, in a drama of tropic nights, and a chain of murders which has its beginning on a submarine. Murder of the Pigboat Skipper is the second in this series.
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by William Hartley
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.
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by Harold F. Cruickshank
Nowhere along the Western Front could you find a more feared crew, both in their element and out. The Sky Devil and his Brood could always be counted on to whip Germany’s best Aces, out-scrap entire squadrons of Boche killers, or tackle not one, but two crazed Barons with an Egyptology fetish! But what happens when they find themselves up in a dirigible fighting a fleet of ghost zeppelins, or down in the English Channel battling ferocious deep water beasts, or even behind enemy lines dealing with a crazed Major Petrie?
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by Harold F. Cruickshank
There was no better flight in France than the Sky Devil's Brood. Led by Captain Bill Dawe, the famous Yank ace known to all of France as the Sky Devil, the brood consisted of Chuck Verne, Mart Bevin, Slim Skitch and Slug Walton. The crimson devil insignia on their silver Spads brought fear to any German pilot unlucky enough to meet them in the air. But the Sky Devil’s greatest enemy might just be his own C.O. ...
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by Frederick C. Painton
The Squadron of the Dead contained all the hellions of ten armies! Men without hope; men courting death; men who loved to kill; men who laughed and fought, drank and cursed, lived hard, and died harder. Americans, British, Russians—even Germans—made up their ranks, and only one bond held them together: Death lay ahead of them. They were assigned the grim missions no other squadron dared to take—for they had all been condemned to die!
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by Robert J. Hogan
Smoke Wade was known as "the Cowboy Ace." Flying a Pinto-colored Spad he called Jake, after his favorite ranch pony, and wearing his trusty six-gun on his leg, there wasn't a fight or a wager that he was afraid to take on. Join Smoke as he soars through WWI skies to battle the evilest ace on the Western Front, Baron von Stolz. Thirteen great stories from the pen of man who brought you G-8 and The Red Falcon, Robert J. Hogan!
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by Robert J. Hogan
From the creator of G-8 and His Battle Aces comes Smoke Wade, six-gun rider of the Devil’s sky range, flying the Pinto-colored biplane he called Jake, after his favorite ranch pony back home in Arizona. With his trusty smoke-pole strapped to his leg, there wasn’t a fight — or a wager — that the skipper of the 66th Pursuit Squadron was afraid to take on, and that included the Baron von Stolz, the toughest ace Germany had on the Western Front!
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by Robert J. Hogan
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, Germany’s top Ace. When the chips are down, don’t bet against Smoke Wade!
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by Arthur J. Burks
Selected by Black Jack Pershing himself for an Impossible Assignment. Lt. Evan Post was volunteered to drive Germany’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. With the biggest, blackest, ugliest bird painted on his red plane’s fuselage, Post worked the list. And with every German Ace he downed, Evan Post became The Black Falcon!
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by O.B. Myers
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 and The Mongol Ace! As well as two articles about O.B. Myers by Kenneth Porter.
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by Barry Barton
While Death flies the Swastika across the bloody skies of World War II, one American flier stands before the pendulum of history! In the vivid flames of the European conflict, Bill Combat fearlessly challenges Hitler and his minions. He knows first hand the ruthlessness of the Nazis—they had already murdered his mother and uncle, and now were after him. But Captain Combat has vowed that when the battle smoke clears, freedom and dignity will triumph over Nazi evil!
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by William E. Barrett
In the Misty Skies of WWI France, History is written with flaming guns.
Yank airman Hugh McQuillen had smashed his way into those history books as “The Iron Ace.†Flying his deadly war plane adorned with the Laughing Skull, he was a grim and unrelenting instrument of war who killed Germans with such ruthless efficiency that he became known on both sides of the line as “The Assassin.â€
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by Donald E. Keyhoe
Below the Rio Grande he had once been known as “The Killer.†Now he flew through hell skies, leader of the strangest squadron that ever dared face death from flaming Spandaus. Outcasts—all of them—branded with the convict’s arrow! No cowards came to the Jailbird drome—only those dishonored war eagles who chose a chance to die in action rather than rot behind prison bars. Hot tempers, liquor, and the madness of war had brought them low—but beneath it all they still were men!
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by Donald E. Keyhoe
They had all been sentenced to a living death and all bore The Convict Brand!
The Jailbirds were recruited from the military prisons of Britain, France, and America. Real men, molded in the harsh fires of life, dishonored perhaps in the eyes of the Army— but men with red blood and courage. Hard fighters, some of them hiding bitter memories, but all of them ready to follow their leader, “Killer†Kirby, down a flaming suicide trail on the most dangerous missions of the Great War! Rather than wither behind bars—they were given the chance to die fighting!
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by Robert J. Hogan
The Yanks and English knew him as “The Red Falcon.†The French call him “L’ Faucon Rouge.†The Germans curse him as “Verdamnt Der Rot Falker.†Unjustly wanted for a firing squad on his own side of the lines––Facing death from the Germans on the other! He is a man abandoned by his own country, but still willing to die for it! Along with his aide, the great African warrior Sika, The Red Falcon fights WWI on his own terms.
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by Robert J. Hogan
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!
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by Robert J. Hogan
He was an outcast ace! The prey of friend and foe alike. From their hidden base in the Vosges Mountains, the crimson wings of the Red Falcon and his aide Sika fly once again into battle skies, waging a war of their own, doling out justice by the power of their blazing guns. Age of Aces Books has gathered together eleven more never before reprinted air-action stories for this third volume in a series of four exciting Red Falcon collections.
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by Robert J. Hogan
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
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by Norvell Page
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. How could The Spider hope to stop a criminal conspiracy as big as the state itself?
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by Ralph Oppenheim
They were the Three Mosquitoes! Kirby, the D’Artagnan of the group, led the formation even though he was the youngest— his amazing skills had won him the position of leader of the trio. On his right flew “Shorty†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 cry—“Let’s go!â€â€”they’re off on another dangerous mission in perilous skies!
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by Ralph Oppenheim
The famous and inseparable Three Mosquitoes were the mightiest flying combination
that had ever blazed its way through overwhelming odds and laughed to tell of it! Flying in their customary V formation: at point was Captain Kirby, impetuous young leader of the great trio; to his right was Lieutenant “Shorty†Carn, the mild-eyed, corpulent little Mosquito; and lanky Lieutenant Travis, eldest and wisest of the Mosquitoes to his left! With their customary battle cry—“Let’s go!â€â€”they’re off on another dangerous mission in perilous skies!
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by Ralph Oppenheim
Once more their familiar battle cry rings out: "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 the 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 mild-eyed and corpulent Shorty Carn, and lanky Travis, the eldest and wisest Mosquito.
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by Ralph Oppenheim
Streaking swiftly through Hell skies, their three Hisso engines thundering, we find The Greatest Trio of Aces! The famous and inseparable “Three Mosquitoes,†the mightiest flying combination that had ever blazed its way through overwhelming odds and laughed to tell of it, take off in four more exciting adventures from the pages of Popular Publications! Their customary battle cry says it all—“Let’s go!â€
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by Ralph Oppenheim
Flying in their usual close V, the three khaki colored spads were piloted by U.S. Intelligence's finest. In the lead Spad was their impetuous young leader Kirby, while flanking him were "Shorty" Carn, the mild eyed, corpulent little Mosquito and lanky Travis, eldest and wisest of the trio. These three men were always raring for action, always recklessly anxious to go out and match thier wings against any odds!
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by Donald E. Keyhoe
Dick Traine, Monte Prince and the rest of this “Vanished Legion†of living ghosts were on call for only the strangest and most perilous missions of the war. Officially listed as “Killed in Action,†their continued existence was unknown to all but a few of the High Command. Operating out of a secret base in the Vosges Mountains, there would be no reprieve—only death would free them from their unkind fate!
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