From 1934 to 1939 America thrilled to the adventures of Secret Agent X — the "man of a thousand faces" — as he battled futuristic weapons and mad scientists. The true identity of Secret Agent X was never revealed. He used his mastery of disguise to work undercover for the U.S. government. With his aide, newspaper reporter Betty Dale, and his secretive government handler K-9, he battled weird and fantastical threats to America for forty-one amazing issues. Secret Agent X returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Complete Book-Length Secret Agent “X” Novel
Horde of the Damned
by Paul Chadwick writing as Brant House
Over the bleak, wave-whipped sea wall of the great Lasher estate swarmed a horror horde of the eternally damned. G-men rushed to check that tide of terror, to prevent a monster kidnap plot. But those G-men wilted on rubber legs. Their deadly machine guns dropped harmlessly from arms that turned to jelly, for those government men had been scourged by the curse of the rubber corpse... Secret Agent “X” was among them. But his thousand faces, his thousand disguises, his thousand surprises were swept before the mighty march of that dehumanized horde.
The Wailing Skull
by Vaughn Bryant
This Ozark hotel had an oppressive air of silent menace, and its gloomy lobby smelled like a tomb. But no tomb ever echoed with such a weird and unearthly wail. And even tombs do not have crucified bodies with grinning skulls for heads.
One Drop of Death
by Wyatt Blassingame
Mike Cave felt an eerie tingling along his spine as he read: “Things that are not human don’t like human lives. You will be the first to die.”
