Sky Fighters was one of the longest running "air" pulps beginning in 1932 and lasting until 1950. An amazing 118 issues were published during that time. Thrilling Publications published this one, along with its two sister aviation magazines Air War and The Lone Eagle. When the magazine began, it featured exciting tales of World War I, written by some of the men who actually flew in the skies above France. The magazine began featuring more contemporary stories as World War II loomed. By 1941, the magazine was entirely taken over by battles of the Allies against the Axis. After the end of the global conflict in 1946, the magazine featured a mixture of old and new tales, some containing aviation adventures not related to the wars. Sky Fighters returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Complete Novels
Orders for An Ace
by George Bruce
They asked for an ace — those Brass Hats — and they got a man. They got a man who wasn’t afraid to tell them that “someone had blundered” — a man who wasn’t afraid to stick to his flying brothers through the thick of it.
Soft Thunder
by Frederick C. Painton
He was just a kid who played tennis to those two hard-boiled soldiers — but there was stuff in his make-up that kept him battling in the flaming skies.
Complete Novelettes
Double Death
by W.E. Barrett
Strange death burned the Italian War skies and a mad squadron flew the Alps with stark, grim, faces in the cockpits.
Into the Blue
by Hugh James
The true story of Albert Rhys-Davies — the ace who kept rabbits.
Verse
The Dog-Fight of Ace McFee
by Ballado Johnson
1893
by Ballado Johnson
Special Features
How the War Crates Flew
by R. Sidney Bowen
Where the reader meets ships and pilots who made war history.
Ten Air Questions
Test your knowledge — and your friends!
George Bruce Says:
The readers’ and writers’ department.
Win Your Wings — A Contest
Ride with the Aces — if you know how — for cash prizes.
Where readers and editor meet.
