Secret Agent X-9

Secret Agent X-9 was a comic strip begun by writer Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) and artist Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon). Syndicated by King Features, it ran from January 22, 1934 until February 10, 1996.

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Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon - Alex Raymond - Flash Gordon - King Features - January 22 - 1934 - February 10 - 1996

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The strip was something of a combination of a secret agent and private eye adventure, and went back and forth between the two. Despite the initial combination of talents, the strip was never a success, and perhaps the confusion about what kind of strip it actually was contributed to this. By the next year, Hammett and Raymond had both left the strip. They were followed by a number of other creators. From 1967 to 1980, it was written by Archie Goodwin and drawn by Al Williamson, who together also collaborated on the Star Wars comic strip.

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1967 - 1980 - Archie Goodwin - Al Williamson - Star Wars

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X-9 was a nameless agent who worked for a nameless agency. X-9 acquired the name "Phil Corrigan" in the 1940s and decades later the strip was renamed Secret Agent Corrigan. The nameless agency was also briefly the FBI when the FBI was in vogue, but when the FBI became less popular, references to it were dropped and the agency was nameless again.

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The last artist on the strip was veteran George Evans who wrote and drew the strip from 1980 to his retirement in 1996.

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In 2000/01, X-9 made a guest appearance in the Flash Gordon Sunday strip. One page was drawn by Evans, and this is so far X-9's last apperance in newspaper comics.

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Flash Gordon - Sunday strip

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