Oct 25, 2024
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.)
