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.

Agent X-9

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…

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.

Agent X-9