It must have been really difficult to come up with covers for the air war pulps. One bunch of planes shooting at each other in mid-air looks pretty much like another bunch of planes shooting at each other in mid-air. At least this one has a pilot blazing away at an enemy crate with a handgun to make it a little different. The quality of the authors inside is good: George Bruce and Robert Sidney Bowen, who were great at these aviation stories, and Arthur J. Burks, who wrote nearly everything and wrote it well.
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That cover's pretty exciting. those old planes were so cool looking.
At one time I had a large collection of air war pulps but not only did the covers all look alike, but the stories were almost all alike. I got rid of all of them except for a couple covers by Blakeslee. The only reason I kept these issues were because I have the original paintings. They were not too readable to say the least.
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