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Secret Agent X-9: By Dashiell Hammett and Alex Raymond

Description: When Secret Agent X-9 premiered in January 1934, King Features could proudly boast that its new adventure strip was written by the world's most famous mystery writer - Dashiell Hammett, the man who virtually invented the hard-boiled detective in such novels as The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, and Red Harvest. The artist chosen was less well-known - at this point, Alex Raymond was merely an uncredited assistant on Tim Tyler's Luck and the humor strip Blondie - but 1934 was the turning point in Raymond's career. From that cold January forward, Alex Raymond would become as famous as Hammett, thanks to his Sunday comics double-head ... (more)
Manufacturer: IDW Publishing
Release date: 12 May 2015
ISBN-10 : 1631402110 | ISBN-13: 9781631402111
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