Agent X-9 (Character)

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Agent X-9 was the first pop culture super spy, appearing in a newspaper strip the character was co-created by the creator of Sam Spade, and for that matter the modern hard boiled detective story, Dashiell Hammett, with art supplied by Alex Raymond less then two years after creating Flash Gordon.

At first a nameless agent working for a nameless agency in the 1940s, by then being done by people other than his creators, he was given the name of Phil Corrigan and said to be working for anything from the FBI to the OSS to the CIA depending the writer at the time.

General Information

Super Name	Agent X-9 Agent X-9
Real Name	Phil Corrigan Real Name Real name for this character.
Aliases	Secret Agent X-9 Secret Agent Corrigan Phil Corrigan Agent Kelly Secret Agent X-9 Secret Agent Corrigan Phil Corrigan Agent Kelly
Publisher	King Features Syndicate Publisher Publisher for this character.
Creators	Dashiell Hammett Alex Raymond Creators Creators of this character.
Gender	Male Gender Gender of this character.
Character Type	Human Character Type Character type of this character.
First Appearance	Feature Book #8 - Secret Agent X-9
Appears in	1096 issues
Birthday	n/a Birthday Birthday for this character.
Died	None Issues Died Issues where this character died.
Powers	Agility Gadgets Intellect Marksmanship Stealth Unarmed Combat Character Powers Powers of this character.