{"id":5493,"date":"2016-10-14T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=5493"},"modified":"2026-06-22T12:50:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:50:44","slug":"christopher-cool-teen-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2016\/10\/14\/christopher-cool-teen-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Cool: T.E.E.N. agent"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Department<\/a>The ’60s spy crazy spawned a lot of things, good and bad. We had a lot of spy novels, movies, and TV shows that came out of it. It influenced other things, hence getting a novel series from Belmont and a comic-book series from Archie that made The Shadow<\/strong> more a spy, and a new Nick Carter<\/strong> series that was more a counterspy character than a detective.<\/p>\n

The juvenile book series mainly had spies and foreign agents as opponents that their heroes had to deal with. But there was one where the heroes were actual spies: Christopher Cool<\/strong> and his fellow teenage agents of T.E.E.N.<\/p>\n

Created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and published by Grosset & Dunlap, the series ran six volumes from 1967 to ’69. The series ended when I was too young to read it, and I only later discovered it through websites dedicated to various juvenile series.<\/p>\n

Credited to “Jack Lancer<\/strong>,” the series was really written by Jim Lawrence<\/strong>, who had written the bulk of the Tom Swift Jr.<\/strong> series and would go on to write the long-running James Bond<\/strong> comic-strip series in the U.K. for a period of time.<\/p>\n

The series consists of:<\/p>\n