Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Secret Agent X-9</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-09-12
name: label: graphic artist
content: Lewis, Bob
label: publisher
content: King Features Syndicate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing, prepared for the <i>Secret Agent X-9</i> comic strip, shows a UFO about to enter Earth’s atmosphere. "Tracking Control" staff fear that it will be plainly visible to many people.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Robert "Bob" Lubbers (1922- ) began his career as a freelance cartoonist. In the 1950s and 1960s he contributed to strips such as <i>Tarzan,</i> <i>Li’l Abner,</i> <i>Long Sam,</i> and <i>Big Ben Bolt.</i> In 1960 he began work on <i>Secret Agent X-9</i> under the pseudonym Bob Lewis. He left the strip seven years later and retired in 1989.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Secret Agent X-9</i> (1934-1996) was a detective strip, which began during a time when the public was frustrated with Prohibition-era crime and later government intrusion. Artist Alex Raymond and novelist Dashiell Hammett created and launched the strip. The character X-9 was a secret agent, but appeared as a typical private investigator.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Comic Art
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content: Communications
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.22619
label: catalog number
content: 22619
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Other Terms
content: drawing; Pen and Ink
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14.4 cm x 44.7 cm; 5 11/16 in x 17 5/8 in