Secret Agent "X " comic books issue 1

Volume 1, Issue 2 - March, 1934. 6.75" x 9.75", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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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.

Issue #1. Reprints of Alex Raymond's newspaper strip Secret Agent X-9. 8-in. x 10 3/4-in., 64 pages, black and white. Cover price $7.95.

Stories by Dashiell Hammett and Leslie Charteris. Art and Cover by Alex Raymond. Collects the espionage comic strip X-9 from 1934-1935, when it was written by Hammett (The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man) and Charteris (The Saint) and drawn by a pre-Flash Gordon Alex Raymond. Introduction by comics historian Bill Blackbeard. Softcover, 11" wide x 8.5" tall. 212 pages, B&W. Cover price $13.95.

Story by Leslie Charteris. Art and cover by Charles Flanders. 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 Nov. 18, 1935 to Jan. 11, 1936. Agent X-9 and his rotund sidekick Sidney Carp investigate a series of air crashes engineered by the mysterious Phantom. 13-1/2-in., x 9-1/2-in. 24 pages, B&W.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Al Williamson's run on Secret Agent Corrigan from 1967 to 1979 stands as one of the artistic highlights in the history of the American comic strip. Williamson's illustrious career included stints at EC Comics on their legendary science fiction titles, Star Wars, Flash Gordon, and Secret Agent Corrigan (AKA X-9). Archie Goodwin was one of the most acclaimed writers and editors to work in comics. He edited the groundbreaking Blazing Combat series for Warren Publications, as well as Creepy and Eerie. His writing credits included Batman and the Eisner Award-winning Manhunter series. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11 1/2-in. x 10 1/2-in., 288 pages, B&W. Cover price $49.99.

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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.

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. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 276 pages, Text Only. Cover price $13.95.

1st printing. Three novellas in one! Judgment is Moonstone's latest pulp justice-dealer! Created by the late pulp-master CJ Henderson (Punisher, Kolchak, The Spider), Judgment leaves no loose ends and could care less what anyone else thinks! If you like your body count high, and your action outrageous, Judgment is waiting for you! With his wits, his twin 45's, and his will of iron, he literally goes to hell and back in this one, folks. Plus a brand new Domino Lady tale, and a Judgment/Domino Lady/Secret Agent X team up story! Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 160 pages, Text. Cover price $10.95.

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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.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "1934-1936!" Written by Dashiell Hammett. Art and cover by Alex Raymond. The strip was a dailies-only serial. This volume collects the complete Hammett/Raymond strips, plus the subsequent stories by Raymond and Leslie Charteris, famous himself for "The Saint" novels, as well as the Charteris stories drawn by Charles Flanders. Included are strips from January 22, 1934 through October 31, 1936. Hardcover, 11-in. x 10-in., 304 pages, B&W. Cover price $49.99.

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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.

First edition, 2008. Cover by Norman Saunders. Contrary to what it looks like, this is a new adventure written by Stephen Payne in the pulp style. It resembles a pulp reprint right down to the ads included and the double-column layout of the text. 6 1/2-in. x 10 1/4-in., 128 pages, black and white. Cover price $14.95.

First edition, 2012. Not a pulp reprint but a new novel of Secret Agent X by Stephen Payne. Presented in the double-column pulp format and even some vintage ads, it certainly has the flavor of a pulp. What is more important? Life—or lucre? Most of us would cast our vote in favor of life. But for one group of men, wealth possesses a far greater hold. Such a position becomes apparent when a New York publishing magnate dies in a horrible fit of madness. In response his surviving friends band together, vowing they would rather die than capitulate to his murderer. His name? The Fool. And Secret Agent X, man of a thousand faces, found that even he was not immune from the wiles of a madman. 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 204 pages, black and white. Cover price $14.95.

First edition, 2014. Not a pulp reprint but a new adventure by Stephen Payne. Introduction by Tom Johnson. Lengthy afterword by Payne explaining how he wanted to write the origin story of the Secret Agent. What was the shocking connection between the Secret Agent and the white-robed crime king, the Resurrectionist? And why was this weird villain murdering men, only to raise them from the dead? True, he was out to enrich himself, since he plundered on a grand scale. But he was really out for power and control. Such dominion would he gain only after he had acquired that most closely guarded of secrets - the real identity of Secret Agent X. And the Man of a Thousand Faces realized that even he might finally have run out of time - and surprises. 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 316 pages (almost an inch thick!), black and white. Cover price $14.95.