Summer
1935-1936
DAY OF THE DESTROYERS
Jimmie
Flint, Secret Agent X-11 of the Intelligence Service Command, battles Colonel
Lucian Starliss and his Medusa Council, who seek to oust President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and take over the United States. Along the way, he receives
aid from the Phantom Detective (Richard Curtis Van Loan), the Black Bat (Tony
Quinn), the Green Lama (Jethro Dumont), and the Gray Face (Owen Tull.) Herald-Tribune reporter Luke Jaconetti
moonlights for the Amalgamated Press, which employs Jimmie’s girlfriend Kara
Eastland. Luke receives a phone call from Betty Dale. After the Council is
defeated, Kara says that Dumont is organizing other wealthy men such as
himself, including Van Loan and “that odd chap, Wentworth” for a Patriots for
Progress group.
An anthology of linked stories by Gary
Phillips, Tommy Hancock, Aaron Shaps, Jeri Westerson, Ron Fortier, Eric Fein,
Joe Gentile, Paul Bishop, and Adam Lance Garcia, edited by Gary Phillips,
Moonstone Books, 2015. Luke Jaconetti first appeared in Garcia’s story “The
Black Rock Conspiracy,” featuring Lester Dent’s pulp hero Foster Fade; he also
appeared in Garcia’s novel The Green Lama: Scions. Reporter Betty Dale is the girlfriend of Secret Agent X, who has no
known connection to Secret Agent X-11. “That odd chap, Wentworth” is Richard
Wentworth, aka the Spider. This crossover brings Secret Agent X-11 (a character
created for this anthology) and the Gray Face (another original character,
created by Phillips), into the CU.