Secret Agent "X " comic books issue 1
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Issue #1
Published 1934 by David McKay Publishing.$115.00
View scans- Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight.
Book One. Stories by Dashiell Hammett. Art and cover by Alex Raymond. Pioneering comics publisher David McKay presents the first book publication of the comic strip created by writer Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) and artist Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon). This issue reprints Secret Agent X-9 daily strips from 1934. Wealthy Mr. Powers seeks help from X-9, but criminals get to him first. Now X-9 must discover the true identity of the master criminal known as the Top. Squarebound, 8-in. x 7.5-in., 80 pages, B&W.
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1st printing. By Ron Fortier. Based on a real historical event during the Roosevelt administration! Guest starring pulp heroes The Green Lama, The Phantom Detective, and The Black Bat! Day of the Destroyers is an all-original linked prose anthology - each story is part of a larger arc wherein Jimmie Flint, Secret Agent X-11 of the Intelligence Service Command, battles to prevent the seditionist Medusa Council from engineering a bloody coup overthrowing our democracy. Agent X-11 fights across the country preventing an aerial assault on Chicago's rail lines, destroying a secret factory of gas meant to enthrall millions in New Mexico, racing to stop a machine of fantastic destruction in Manhattan, and so much more! Written by pulp fictioneers: Ron Fortier, Adam Lance Garcia, Gary Phillips, Paul Bishop, Jeri Westerson, Eric Fein, Tommy Hancock, Aaron Shaps, & Joe Gentile. Edited by Gary Phillips. Introduction by pulp historian and award-winning author Robert Weinberg. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 276 pages, Text Only. Cover price $23.95.
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1st printing. By Robert T. Jeschonek and Robert Harrison. Cover by Jay Piscopo. All-New stories! Has the Black crimefighter SANGO been framed for the murder of the costumed anti-hero The White Locust? The Green Hornet and Kato lock horns with the soldiers of a racist legion seeking to sow seeds of chaos. Can they turn back the tide before Detroit in consumed? Plus an all new Secret Agent X (the Man of a Thousand Faces) story! Softcover, 6-in.x 9-in., 78 pages, Text Only. Cover price $7.49.
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Issue #1
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Story by Leslie Charteris. Art and cover by Alex Raymond. Secret Agent X-9 was a comic strip created by writer Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) and artist Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon). At the time of these strips, the writer was Leslie Charteris, who created The Saint. Collects the Secret Agent X-9 daily strip from September 23 to November 16, 1935. In one of his earliest cases, Agent X-9 and his rotund sidekick Sidney Carp encounter the mystery man known as The Fixer. 13-1/2-in., x 9-1/2-in. 24 pages, B&W.
