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, with Robert Sidney Bowen, an established pulp writer, providing a lead novel each month, and also writing 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 a success, and after a year Bowen wrote a novel in which, unusually for pulp fiction, Dusty Ayres finally defeated the invaders, and the magazine ceased publication. It restarted in 1940, again under the original title, Battle Birds, and lasted for another four ye
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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, with Robert Sidney Bowen, an established pulp writer, providing a lead novel each month, and also writing 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 a success, and after a year Bowen wrote a novel in which, unusually for pulp fiction, Dusty Ayres finally defeated the invaders, and the magazine ceased publication. It restarted in 1940, again under the original title, Battle Birds, and lasted for another four ye (en)
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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, with Robert Sidney Bowen, an established pulp writer, providing a lead novel each month, and also writing 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 a success, and after a year Bowen wrote a novel in which, unusually for pulp fiction, Dusty Ayres finally defeated the invaders, and the magazine ceased publication. It restarted in 1940, again under the original title, Battle Birds, and lasted for another four years. (en)
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