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Alex Raymond

Secret Agent X-9 - On the up and up, 1934

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€ 3.500 - 5.500

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Information

pencil, pastel and ink on thin cardboard
68 x 18 cm
Daily comic strip of 02/11/1934 for "Secret Agent X-9". In response to the overwhelming success of Dick Tracy, publisher William Randolph Hearst personally hired the greatest hard-boiled writer of the period Dashiell Hammett, who was joined by a very young but very promising star of American comics, the 24-year-old Alex Raymond, to create that. who will become a legendary character of its kind: Secret Agent X-9. A very rare strip from the second narrative cycle of the series entitled "Mystery of the Silent Guns" in which Hammett was still at the texts (he left a few months later) along with a Raymond in a state of grace. Slight vertical crease and at the corners of the right margin. Signed, dated and titled on the back.

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