Lester DentBefore he created the seminal superhero Doc Savage in 1932, Missouri writer LESTER DENT (1904-1959) mastered most of the pulp-fiction genres popular at the dawn of the Great Depression. Breaking into the field with a string of aviation-centered advenure stories, Dent quickly branched out into other sub-genres, penning Westerns inspired by his upbringing in Wyoming and Oklahoma, acclaimed hard-boiled detective mysteries, and briefly, several so-called airwar tales set during World War I. Hate Hop belongs to what its practitioners dubbed yammering-gun pulp yarns because they invariably centered around bloody aerial dogfights of the War to End All Wars. Read More Read Less