OH GOD THERE ARE TWO OF THEM NOW?Ĭhris gets his father’s colleague to confirm his identity, and they conclude that the director’s new secretary, Miss Atkin, must be the enemy informant, when called in for questions she escapes by means of a pink smoke-grenade (Miss Atkin, feminist hero?) and then out of nowhere Chris and Gerry are chased by bats, which is leitmotif with this series.Īnd I don’t know why they bothered with the bats, because soon enough Chris falls off a cliff due to his own bumbling incompetence, which leads to him and Gerry being spotted by more enemy agents and their giant, sonar-controlled wasps.
#JAIL CELL TEENAGENT LICENSE#
Chris rifles through his wallet, notes that his driver’s license identifies him as “Paul Shenko” (this will have almost nothing to do with anything that happens subsequently in the book, so why are we spending so much time on this?) as well as a picture of himself, Christopher Cool, TEEN Agent! Chris at least stops to ponder if his cover has been blown, ending both his and Geronimo’s spy-careers.īack at his dormitory at Kingston College (Princeton wanted to part of this) Geronimo informs him that he’s had a call from Teen Headquarters, and Chris learns that he’s had a call from the Atomic Research Institute who have received a letter in their care regarding his father, a famous scientist that had gone missing behind the Iron Curtain before the series started.Ĭhris and Gerry drive up to Boston to collect the letter, only to learn that Christopher Cool has already collected the letter and departed. Seems unnecessarily complicated, but that is true of most of the things that happen in this series. A jet blast of powdered glass as he went by! Quite a little gimmick.” A few karate chops and one “Sleepy Sliver” TEEN-issued tranquilizer later Chris has disarmed his assailant and return to inspecting his tire: Without introduction or fanfare, Chris’s snappy roadster blows a tire in the opening pages- but could it be a trap set by a rival hot-rodder? Probably since when Chris gets out to inspect the damage the dude pulls a gun on him. Geronimo and Spice aren’t given much to do (they barely even rescue Chris at all!) and (FINALLY) a new TEEN Agent is introduced, only to be whisked away after one paragraph. The Plot: While Christopher Cool adventures have so far been variously disorganized, confused and baffling, this third volume seems particularly phoned-in. Under his own name he also wrote the trashy, semi-pornographic Dark Angel series… which in the spirit of shameless self-promotion, I can direct you to my essay about that series contained herein!
#JAIL CELL TEENAGENT MOVIE#
At least when he wasn’t being totally inconspicuous by donning blackface and wrapping himself up in the living room drapes as a “disguise” and getting chased by bats or hunting Nazis in the Middle East.Īuthor “Jack Lancer” is a pen name for James Lawrence, who wrote for a number of G & D series, but is probably best known for his work on the James Bond and Friday Foster comic strips (the latter of which was adapted as a movie for Pam Grier). In previous volumes, you may recall that Chris was mostly repeatedly rescued by Geronimo and feisty (duh) redhead (of course) co-ed agent Spice Carter. This hush-hush corps of bright young students had been specially developed by the CIA on the theory that its members would be less open to suspicion than older agents. The Department of Danger! There was something about the words that sent a faint chill down Chris’s spine.īackground: It is somewhat comforting that (for at least a few more volumes) I know I can always fall back on Jack Lancer’s Cold War relic of a boys’ series, featuring the completely baffling spy adventures of Ivy League golden boy Christopher Cool and his stealthy, Indian-y roommate Geronimo Johnson, in the employ of the Top-Secret Educational Espionage Network (TEEN):
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