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Bob Lubbers - Secret Agent X-9 - Femme Fatale - 1966

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Title:	Bob Lubbers - Secret Agent X-9 - Femme Fatale - 1966
Artist:	Bob Lubbers (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	$275.00
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Added to Site:	10/30/2024
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A bit about Bob Lubbers. To begin, he was born in 1922 in Brooklyn, New York. He honed his art skills at the Art Students League in New York City under the renowned painter, George Bridgman.

At the age of eighteen, Wright's Hardware commissioned Lubbers to make a weekly cartoon for the newspaper the Manhasset Mail. He then teamed up with his pal Stan Drake, to create his first feature about "daring adventurer and soldier of fortune" 'Reef Kinkaid', which they sold to to Centaur Publishing. From May 1940 until May 1941, that strip became a regular feature in the company's title Amazing Man Comics.

In 1942, Lubbers was hired by Fiction House (FH) and later served as art director. Working on several features for Fight Comics ('Rip Carson'), Wings Comics ('Captain Wings and the Hell-Diver Squadron'), and Rangers Comics ('U.S. Rangers', 'Firehair').
In 1943, Lubbers was drafted and served in the United States Air Force Air Transport Command until the end of World War II in 1945. When he returned, Lubbers resumed his post at Fiction House and continued drawing a number of features in Rangers Comics and Wings Comics, then adding Jungle Comics ('Captain Terry Thunder', 'Camilla') and Movie Comics.

In 1950, Lubbers left FH to work at the American Comics Group (ACG) doing a couple of stories in 'Adventures into the Unknown', romance stories for Pines and Lev Gleason (1949-1950), the 'Vigilante' feature in three issues of DC's Action Comics (1949) and some covers for St. John Publishing (1948-1950). Besides comic stories, he also stood out for his cover illustrations featuring good-looking women.

That same year, Lubbers was sharing a studio with Stan Drake and John Celardo, and decided to switch from comic books to newspaper strips. He was quickly hired by United Feature Syndicate to replace Nick Cardy on the daily strip, and Burne Hogarth on the Sunday 'Tarzan' strip. Lubbers did both strips from July 1950 through August 1954 and working with writer Dick Van Buren was able to fill their stories with a lot of action, jungle animals, colorful backgrounds and exotic girls. In 1954, 'Tarzan' was continued by Lubbers' studio mate John Celardo.

On 31 May 1954, Lubbers was assigned art duties on a new comic series scripted by Al Capp, titled 'Long Sam', syndicated by United Features. Basically, this was a female Li�l Abner, a pretty young hillbilly woman raised in the mountains living with a feisty mother, and very na�ve regarding the outside world.

For a couple of months in 1959, Lubbers ghosted the newspaper comic based on Leslie Charteris' antihero 'The Saint' for the New York Herald-Tribune, succeeding John Spranger. He did ghost work on several strips for King Features Syndicate, such as John Cullen Murphy's 'Big Ben Bolt', and Frank Godwin's 'Rusty Riley' after the latter had passed away in 1959. Then, in March 1960, Lubber succeeded Mel Graff as writer and artist of the 'Secret Agent X-9' detective comic, originally created by Alex Raymond and Dashiell Hammett in 1934. Lubbers drew the comic under the pseudonym "Bob Lewis". Lubbers was later succeeded by Al Williamson in January 1967.

Lubbers went on to create his own comic strip, �Robin Malone�, which allowed him to showcase his talent for drawing sexy girls. 'Robin Malone' was beautiful and voluptuous. .. as were many of the supporting characters. By 1968, the comic changed its tone to more humorous and satirical storylines, although in 1969 the Sunday page returned to drama, when it shifted focus to Robin's secretary Jo. The final 'Robin Malone' strip appeared in 1970, with Lubbers' hidden message. The cars read "R.I.P., R.M.".

Lubbers continued to do work for comics from the 1960s � 1980s as well as drawing storyboards for television ad agencies. He retired in 1989, and passed away in his sleep on 8 July 2017, at the age of 95.

This is a Secret Agent X-9 daily dated Jan 22 1966 featuring the far eastern siren, Madame Suri; a femme fatele if I ever saw one. Suri has planted a bomb in the center of her city which Phil Corrigan has found and is trying to get it clear of town... as Suri counts down. Like a lot of Lubber's strips, it is the pretty girl that is the drawing card.

The strip was produced in ink over graphite This strip has an image area of 16.5" x 5" on a larger 18 x 5.75" piece of 2-ply Craftint board. Craftint was an alternative to zip-a-tone to provide background textures for the strips. The art is signed "Bob Lewis" and dated in the last panel.

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