[carbon_psycho]

I'd like some recommendations for some cool spy comics..

[JonTheScanner]

ACG;s Spy Hunters and Spy & Counter Spy starring Jonathan Kent -- I guess it takes place on Earth 43 where Kal-el never landed.

[Poztron]

I'd like some recommendations for some cool spy comics..

Quality's T-Man usually delivered good over-the-top Cold War stories. Decent realistic art, too...looking like Crandall sometimes.

[carbon_psycho]

thanks.. those are some nice suggestions.. keep it coming.

[narfstar]

Comic Media's Danger title
Charlton had Foreign Intrigues also Danger and Adventure

[KnightRandom]

Black X (or Black Ace), appeared in Quality's Feature Comcis #13-22 and the whole run of Smash Comics.  It's got a lot of early work by Will Eisner and all the stuff afterwards is good too.  I've enjoyed all the stories I've read, especially the ones involving Madame Doom, an early example of the kind of femme fatale character Eisner would excel at in The Spirit.  It's still early work so the character's don't have nearly the depth of The Spirit, but the drama of their "lust/hate relationship" as the Public Domain Super Heroes wiki puts it, is fascinating and goes a lot farther than the Batman/Catwoman relationship that was developing around the same time.  In Smash #14 he actually resigns to be with her, until he finds out that she's plotting to create an army of suicide bombers!

[boox909]

Black X (or Black Ace), appeared in Quality's Feature Comcis #13-22 and the whole run of Smash Comics.  It's got a lot of early work by Will Eisner and all the stuff afterwards is good too.  I've enjoyed all the stories I've read, especially the ones involving Madame Doom, an early example of the kind of femme fatale character Eisner would excel at in The Spirit.  It's still early work so the character's don't have nearly the depth of The Spirit, but the drama of their "lust/hate relationship" as the Public Domain Super Heroes wiki puts it, is fascinating and goes a lot farther than the Batman/Catwoman relationship that was developing around the same time.  In Smash #14 he actually resigns to be with her, until he finds out that she's plotting to create an army of suicide bombers!

Black X is a favorite -- I enjoy the Centuar material, but I think the early Smash run sealed it.

B.

[profh0011]

Titan Books' reprints of the JAMES BOND 007 newspaper strips.  Nice collections (still a bit small for how I'd prefer newspaper strips). It started out with adaptations of the novels, then moved on to original material.  Ironically, in the 60's, the strips were "toned down" from the source material, but in the 70's, the new stories were a lot more violent & sexy, in effect, closer to the tone of the novels than the adaptations had been.

The books were not put out in sequence, but I set up a gallery at the GCD in which I put them up in the proper sequence of the stories.

http://www.comics.org/series/19450/covers/

[paw broon]

I've always considered Modesty Blaise to be as much spy as Bond and to that end, I can't suggest strongly enough that you try her newspaper strip vols. - if you haven't already, that is.  Titan have a s/b series out.  Start at the beginning to savour the excellent Jim Holdaway art.

[profh0011]

I second the reccomendation for MODESTY BLAISE.  To me, she is not really a "female James Bond", but more of a "female Simon Templar". That is, she works for herself and picks which cases she wants to get involved with. Having re-read the stories I have not that long ago, I also feel that, if anything, the MB stories were BETTER-WRITTEN than the "007" stuff. (Which is really saying something!) Of course, MB was created for the comic-strips, which itself may give her comics series the edge.  (The comics ARE the "real thing", not a "spin-off".)