#agent x-9

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Thrilling Detective / October 1943 (Vol. 49 #1)

Cover: Jerome George Rozen

Published by O Globo, Brazil 1943

The character X-9 was created by Dashiell Hammett for one of the first adventure newspaper comic strips.

He was just X-9 until the forties when they revealed his name was really Phil Corrigan.

As a bit of trivia, in the Columbo episode Identity Crisis, David White (the actor who played Larry Tate in Bewitched) plays a government agent who shows Columbo his ID, which says Phil Corrigan: Agent X-9.

Oh yeah, and in that one, Columbo arrests an ex-agent played by Patrick MacGoohan, who apparently is the free-roving # 6 from The Prisoner (well, he does say "be seeing you" with the circled finger over the eye thing from that show a lot.)

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Agent X-9

by Al Williamson

[geritsel]

One slightly odd illustration by Alex Raymond

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Stures studio uppdaterad

I oktober tillkom ”Stures studio”, med texter av Sture Hegerfors, som han skrev för Serie-Pressen 1971-72. Stures studio är nu uppdaterad.

I oktober tillkom ”Stures studio” på sajten, med texter av Sture Hegerfors, som han skrev för Serie-Pressen 1971-72. Stures studio är nu uppdaterad. Under veckorna sedan lanseringen har det mesta från Stures penna, under vinjetterna ”Så började vi” och ”Allt om serier”, ur Serie-Pressen blivit uppladdat. Dessa texter finns nu tillgängliga att läsa på webben, med kompletterande illustrationer. De…

Stures studio uppdaterad

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Panels from X-9 Secret Agent Corrigan, December 28, 1968, drawn by Al Williamson and written by Archie Goodwin

Al Williamson's and Archie Goodwin's affection for adventure movies led to the most notable X-9 stories. They understood the differences, as well as the similarities, in the two mediums and repeatedly created something on the page that echoed the source, but had been evolved into a carefully structured comics narrative. Interspersed between the more fantastic, speculative stories, they produced the crime and espionage tales more typically associated with the strip, maintaining a balance that kept the partners fresh and engaged.

Between Williamson’s remarkable drawing skills, his ability to create an amazing illusion of action and movement panel to panel, his elegant black-and-white design, and Goodwin's deftly constructed narratives and tight, efficient dialogue, their run on this newspaper comic series from 1967 to 1980 remains one last stand-out achievement in that genre.

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Agent X-9

by Al Williamson

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Australia editions of Phil Corrigan reprinting US newspaper strips