Hammett's X-9 was collected a few years ago with an intro by William
F. Nolan. I think you can find it for pretty cheap prices.
--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Stewart Wilson <stewart@...> wrote:
>
> Secret Agent X-9 in my copy would have benefited by having the pages
> being printed in order. Suddenly a new character shows up and grabs a
> gun on one page, and I thought that it was quite a jump, which was
> explained a bunch of pages later when the missing pages showed up and
> introduced the character a little more smoothly (he was hiding behind
> a tree). Still a great collection.
>
> Stewart
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Juri Nummelin
> <juri.nummelin@...> wrote:
> > Michael Chong:
> >
> >> Last night, I was reading Hammett's Secret Agent X-9 comic strip
in The
> >> Mammoth Book of Best Crime
> >> Comics and was thinking how fresh it seemed, dating very little.
> >
> > Same here. I just finished reading the book (and actually writing
a review
> > of it) and came to the same conclusion.
> >
> > The book is full of delights in itself. Even Spillane looks good.
> >
> > Juri
> >
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> Stewart Wilson
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