SECRET AGENT X-9 The Detective Classics From The 1930s

Dashiell Hammett created the swift, breathless suspense and excitement of this great daily strip. Here  you’ll enjoy all the stark, stirring drama, grim humor and baffling mystery that made Hammett's detective novels the favorites of all America - There has never been a sleuth like Secret Agent X-9. He fights gun-fire with gun-fire — matches racketeers' cunning with his finely trained wits-faces any danger or runs any risk to bring the underworld into the hands of the law! Contents: Secret Agent X-9, The Gala Wedding of the Pulps to the comics. Part Secret Agent X-9 Part Mystery of the Silent Guns, The Martyn Case, The Iron Claw Gang, The Egyptian Jewel Case. "Raymond's artistry helped make 1934 one of the best years in the history of American comics. Milton Caniff's masterpiece, "Terry and the Pirates," debuted in October '34; Al Capp's Lil' Abner, a scathing mix of satire and hillbilly adventure, came out two months earlier; other stories that have endured, such as "Mandrake the Magician," launch early in the year. But Alex Raymond leads the parade with his illustrations, with "Flash Gordon" and "Jungle Jim" skyrocketing in the Sunday papers from January 7th onward, followed by "Secret Agent X-9" appearing on Mondays from January 22nd onward." (From Bruce Canwell's Introduction) Out Of Print. Condition: Fine Minus. Cover has light spotting, edge wear and tipped corners.