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Battle Birds was an American air-war pulp magazine, published by Popular Publications. It was launched at the end of 1932, but did not sell well, and in 1934 the publisher turned it into an air-war hero pulp titled Dusty Ayres and His Battle Birds. Robert Sidney Bowen, an established pulp writer, provided the lead novel each month, and also wrote the short stories that filled out the issue. Bowen's stories were set in the future, with the United States menaced by an Asian empire called the Black Invaders. The change was not successful enough to be extended beyond the initial plan of a year, and Bowen wrote a novel in which, unusually for pulp fiction, Dusty Ayres finally defeated the invaders, to end the series. The magazine ceased publication with the July/August 1935 issue. It restarted in 1940 under the original title, Battle Birds, and lasted for another four years. All the cover art was painted by Frederick Blakeslee. (Full article...)
What's in the news?
- The Summer Paralympics open (ceremony pictured) in Paris, France.
- More than four hundred people are killed in an Islamist militant attack in Barsalogho Department, Burkina Faso.
- The Islamic State claims responsibility for a mass stabbing that killed three people at a festival in Solingen, Germany.
- In cycling, Katarzyna Niewiadoma wins the Tour de France Femmes.
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