Beb Books - Secret Agent "X"

Through the help of some good friends we have photocopies of all 41 tales of Secret Agent "X." As time permitts we plan to reprint these stories in affordable single issue volumes priced between $5 and $8, depending on the length of the story. Stories are set in new type, with all footnotes and original art, printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper with affordable inkjet technology. Return to the Beb Books Home Page Return to Brian Earl Brown's Home Page 1. The Torture Trust 2. The Spectral Stranglers 3. The Death-Torch Terrors 4. Ambassador of Doom 5. City of the Living Dead 6. Hand of Horror 7. Octopus of Crime 8. The Hooded Hordes 9. Servants of the Skull 10. The Murder Monster 11. The Sinister Scourge 12. Curse of the Waiting Death 13. Devils of Darkness 14. Talons of Terror 15. The Corpse Cavalcade 16. The Golden Ghoul 17. The Monarch of Murder 18. Legion of the Living Dead 19. Horde of the Damned 20. Ringmaster of Doom 21. Kingdom of Blue Corpses 22. Brand of the Metal Maiden 23. Dividends of Doom 24. The Fear Merchants 25. The Faceless Fury 26. Subterranean Scourge 27. The Doom Director 28. City of Madness 29. Horror's Handclasp 30. Death's Frozen Formula 31. The Murder Brain 32. Slaves of the Scorpion 33. Satan's Syndicate 34. The Assassin's League 35. Plague of the Golden Death 36. Curse of the Mandarin's Fan 37. Claws of the Corpse Cult 38. The Corpse That Murdered 39. Curse of the Crimson Horde 40. Corpse Contraband 41. Yoke of the Crimson Coterie

Secret Agent "X" reprints from Beb Books The Torture Trust -- Secret Agent "X" #1, February, 1934 Men with skulls for faces — these were the victims of that terrible trio who met in a hidden room. And Secret Agent “X” went against them, daring the bottled torment of their deaf-mute slaves. In a desperate battle of wits at the gateway of destruction. xx pgs. $6 The Spectral Strangle -- Secret Agent "X" #2 March, 1934. Silent, horrible as the crushing coils of a serpent were those unseen fingers that blotted out men's lives. A criminal of satanic proportions had risen -- the "Black Master," whose victims fall with livid, hideous faces and protruding rongues that seemed a ghastly mockery of the fate they had suffered. Along this terrible murder trail Secret Agent "X" gambled with the Dice of Death. 72 pg. $7 Death-Torch Terror -- Secret Agent "X" #3, Apr, 1934 Death hurled a ghastly challenge at Secret Agent "X." A torch of terror burned above Doom's table where they played. And Charred, unsightly corpses were the jackstraws dealt him by the grim gamester's boney hand. xx pg. $7.00 Ambassador of Doom -- Secret Agent "X" #4 May, 1934. A master of evil came to the nation's capital. A green-masked ambassador from Hell's own legation, followed by a horrible horde versed in the poison torments of the Far East! Even the police who sought th trap him did not guess that ghastliness of his real motive. That remained for Secret Agent "X" to discover as he prowled through a dark and sinister labyrinth of Washington espionage. 81 pg. $8 City of the Living Dead -- Secret Agent "X" #5, June, 1934 Behind the white fangs of escaped jungle beasts lurked an unseen but hideous menace. A menace that made cravens of men and women — sending them cringing to their shuttered home under the brutal lash of Fear in the City of the Sleeping Death. And back of the terror of a dread epidemic, Secret Agent “X” glimpsed the shadow of a criminal plot more horrible than any he had ever known. xx pgs. $6 Hand of Horror -- Secret Agent "X" #6 August, 1934 A metropolis writhed in the cluth of horror's hand. The mightiest of the mighty fled in stark terror before its groping fiendish fingers. And it's wake was a trail of macabre milestones, marking the way with bloated dead. One man -- alone, unaided -- followed in that awesome wake. He was that enigma of enigmas, the Man of a Thousand Faces -- Secret Agent "X." 71 pg $7 Octopus of Crime -- Secret Agent "X" #7, September, 1934 Tentacles of terror reached over the country, spreading like a hideous blight through the cities of America. The underworld, welded together under the secret symbol of a monster of crime, was organized as never before. And Secret Agent “X”, master man-hunter, went up against a genius of crime who stooped even to the ghastly horrors of medieval torture. xx pgs, $8 The Murder Monster -- Secret Agent "X" #10, December, 1934 A panic-stricken city shrank in horror from these death-dealing robots who were immune to bullets. On Secret Agent "X" dared meet the challenge of these inhuman fiends and their master, The Murder Monster, whose pointed finger turned men and women into flaming agony. xx pg. $6.00. Brand of the Metal Maiden -- Secret Agent "X" #22, January, 1936 A music master was the Emperor Zero — master of murder music. For his pupils danced a mad rhythm into the grave. Young people they were, but as they danced they aged—years in seconds. Young faces became furrowed with the mark of time. Their hair became as white as frost. Mummies they became—in silks and satins, and modern dinner coats. ... Secret Agent X hurled his crime-crushing organizations against the Emperor Zero. But Agent X found himself enmeshed in the hilarious dance to hell. xx pg. $5.00. The Fear Merchants -- Secret Agent "X" #24, March, 1936. Flame demons swept across the city. And in their scorching wake came a new horror. The firemen fighting the vast inferno suddenly toppled from their ladders, their shrieks piercing the blazing roar. For when those firefighters struck the pavement they were distorted, bloated husks . . . . Secret Agent X was at that fire. But his manhunt was blocked by a barrier of the bloated dead. xx pg. $5.00 City of Madness -- Secret Agent "X" #28, October, 1936 Secret Agent X knew that the destiny of millions of honest people rested in his judgment of a beautiful but crafty woman. And all the Agent's plans fell to pieces when his most important confederate, Harvey Bates, rebelled against orders. For Bates insisted that Charlotta, the glamorous and powerful spy of old, was incapable of any evil. xx pg $5.00

Use our convenient order form The Torture Trust Secret Agent #1 February, 1934 The Spectral Strangler Secret Agent "X" #2 March, 1934 Death-Torch Terror Secre Agent "X" #3 April,1934 Ambassador of Doom Secret Agent "X" #4 May, 1934 City of the Living Dead Secret Agent "X" #5 June, 1934 Hand of Horror Secret Agent "X" #6 August, 1934 Octopus of Crime Secret Agent "X" #7 Sept, 1934 The Murder Monster Secret Agent "X" #10 December, 1934 Brand of the Metal Maiden Secret Agent "X" #22 January, 1936 The Fear Merchants Secret Agent "X" #24 March, 1936 City of Madness Secret Agent "X" #28 October, 1936