Secret Agent X-9 (Library of American Comics)

Wow,the complete strip.The top crime writer of his era and a hall of fame cartoonist.A great combination Too bad after setting up X-9 to compete with the brilliant Dick Tracy,Alex Raymond became much too busy to devote the proper time to it.King Features had enough hungry artists to draw the strip,but following in Raymond's footsteps always was a daunting challenge.The artwork fell off considerably once Raymond left the strip for good.I don't know when Hammett left ,but the strip was reduced to a pedestrian strip after that.X-9 became an agent with a name and the strip ran for decades! Too bad!

A flash in the past. The art work is wonderful, the styles of that era are amazing, and the story line very interesting. A wonderful book to add to my collection and it's the final piece.

Beautiful collection of Hammett's entire Secret Agent X-9 run. The vintage comics themselves are Hammett slumming for a paycheck, but this book is wonderful and ought to be on the shelf of every Hammett fan.

If you're a Hammett fan you need to own this.

Excellent quality in every sense: paper quality, book size, and content.

Received as advertised.

Good read. A fun look back at a different style of comic story telling.

"Disappointed," best describes my reaction to this bound comic-book. Disappointed in the pedestrian stories by the master story-teller Dashiell Hammett and the beginner art work by the great Alex Raymond (of "Flash Gordon" fame). I understand the roiling complexities of the management of this comic. Nonetheless, it's what's on the page that counts. And the pages in this book do not count for much.S. Martin Shelton

Los argumentos están absolutamente desfasados y pasados de moda. Verlos con los ojos de la época, es obligatorio. El dibujo no es tan bueno como dicen, es simplón, pequeño y sin detalles. Raymond tenía en esa época referentes de los que aprender un poco.....(Hal Foster?...) En mi opinión no merece la pena el libro. La edición es buena en cuanto al papel y las cubiertas. Decepción.

Pres de 300 planches des aventures de l'Agent X9, dessinées par Alex Raymond sur le texte de Dashiell Hammett, et par Charles Flanders sur le texte de Leslie Charteris.On passe d'un dessinateur à l'autre sans discerner de différences sinon que, pour moi, les héroïnes d' Alex Raymond sont plus sexy et davantage encore affriolantes.L'impression des planches , magnifique, préserve la qualité du trait au delà de l'espérance de l'amateur de beaux livres.

La ilustracion de portada es bonita.La calidad del papel es aceptable.Precio adecuado.Como siempre digo en estos casos me gustaria que el tamaño de las viñetas fuera mucho mayor para apreciar mejor el arte de Alex Raymond.Es fundamental,a mi parecer,la mejor edicion para apreciar el dibujo.Gracias por editar a Alex Raymond.