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— Battle Birds

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1932

v1 #1
Dec

1933
v1 #2
Jan
v1 #3
Feb
v1 #4
Mar
v2 #1
Apr
v2 #2
May
v2 #3
Jun
v2 #4
Jul
v3 #1
Aug
v3 #2
Sep
v3 #3
Oct
v3 #4
Nov
v4 #1
Dec

1934
v4 #2
Jan
v4 #3
Feb
v4 #4
Mar
v5 #1
Apr
v5 #2
May
v5 #3
Jun

— Dusty Ayres and His Battle Birds

Numbering continued from Battle Birds, an aviation pulp first published in Dec 1932. Title was converted to an SF format for these 12 issues, then discontinued. A separately numbered revival of Battle Birds, in its original format, was published from 1940 to 1944. All the stories in the SF issues were set against the same background of a future invasion of the U.S., though the shorts featured none of the series characters from the lead novels. We have listed Robert Sidney Bowen as author on all the stories, though the shorts rarely carried by-lines. The contents pages were ambiguously laid out, but implied that Bowen wrote everything.

Publishers: Popular Publications, Inc.; Chicago.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1934

v5 #4
Jul
v6 #1
Aug
v6 #2
Sep
v6 #3
Oct
v6 #4
Nov
v7 #1
Dec

1935
v7 #2
Jan
v7 #3
Feb
v7 #4
Mar
v8 #1
Apr
v8 #2
May/Jun

v8 #3
Jul/Aug

— Battle Birds

Editor: Henry Steeger.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1940

v1 #1
Feb
v1 #2
Mar

v1 #3
May

v1 #4
Jul

v2 #1
Sep

v2 #2
Nov

1941
v2 #3
Jan

v2 #4
Mar

v3 #1
May

v3 #2
Aug

v3 #3
Oct

v3 #4
Dec

1942

v4 #1
Feb

v4 #2
Apr

v4 #3
Jun

v4 #4
Aug

v5 #1
Oct

v5 #2
Dec

1943

v5 #3
Mar

v5 #4
May

v6 #1
Jul

v6 #2
Sep

v6 #3
Nov

1944
v6 #4
Jan

v6 #5
Mar

v6 #6
May

Battle Birds (UK) (about)

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1941 v 1 #3

Battle Cry (about)

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1955

v1 #21
Dec

Battle Stories:

The title on the cover was given as Fawcett’s Battle Stories for the entire run but the title in the Table of Contents was simply Battle Stories until July 1929.