Secret Agent "X" – The Complete Series, Volume 1

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Special Thanks to Brian Earl Brown, Matthew Higgins, Tom Johnson, Chris Kalb, Will Murray, Rick Ollerman, Don O’Malley Bill Thom.

SECRET AGENT “X” was the ultimate spy! No one knew his name or face, and he only had one contact in government, a mysterious individual known as K-9. Only one woman was ever really close to him, Betty Dale, and she had seen his face just once. But she loved him, and often assisted him in dangerous investigations. “X” was the unknown factor, and criminals beware!

I first found Secret Agent “X” when my father was in the Dallas VA Hospital awaiting his death. I was stationed in California in 1972, and drove into Dallas to visit my father for the last time. I had been collecting Doc Savage and The Shadow for several years, and even picked up a number of pulps out in Los Angeles earlier. Leaving the hospital for a while, I visited an older used bookstore in downtown Dallas, and was surprised to see thousands of science fiction pulps stacked on the floor throughout the building. I mentioned to the owner that I was really looking for the hero stuff, like Doc and The Shadow. He said, “Oh, those are upstairs, but nothing under two dollars. And first issues are four bucks! But I don’t have any Shadows or Doc Savages.”

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