A nameless mystery man with a wartime past, backed by a shadowy group of powerful philanthropists, Secret Agent “X” took on the toughest assignments of the dirty thirties. Operating out of the half-haunted Montgomery Mansion, “X” was also known as the Man of a Thousand Faces. A past master of disguise, he infiltrated the Underworld to crush crime in all of its hideous manifestations. 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––the years blended into seconds. Young faces became furrowed with the mark of time. Their hair became white as frost. Mummies they became–– in silks and satins and modern dinner coats...Secret Agent “X” hurled his crime-crushing organization against the Emperor Zero. However, Agent “X” found himself and enmeshed in the hilarious dance to hell. Follow the Man of a Thousand Faces as he confronts the menace of Brand of the Metal Maiden, ripped from the pages of Secret Agent “X” magazine, January 1936.