James Bond – SPECTRE: The Complete Comic Strip Collection

James Bond comic strips

by Jim Lawrence, Ian Fleming, Henry Gammidge

SPECTRE, the insidiously evil organisation led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld, returns in this newly restored edition of the 1960s comic strips. See Bond face off against his deadliest foe in the classic stories Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and You Only Live Twice.

268 pages, Hardcover

First published November 24, 2015

About the author

Aka Hunter Adams, Victor Appleton II

Jim Lawrence has written fiction extensively for both children and adults in a variety of media: books, magazine articles, film and radio scripts, and comic strips, including "decision" strips. He estimates that he has written some sixty books of fiction, many of them under pen names for series like Tom Swift Jr. and Nancy Drew. His radio credits include weekly scripts for Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, The Green Hornet, and Sky King. He has written for, and in some cases created and illustrated, the comic strips Dallas, Joe Palooka, Captain Easy, Friday Foster, and Buck Rogers. To date, he has authored two works of interactive fiction: Seastalker and Moonmist.

Reviews

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

"James Bond – SPECTRE: The Complete Comic Strip Collection" by Jim Lawrence presents the graphic comics version of four of Ian Fleming's James bond novels. Due to a copyright issue "Thunderball" is told in an abridged version.. That copyright mix-up led to Sean Connery's last appearance as James Bond in "Never say Never" an updated remake of the "Thunderball" movie he starred in earlier. "The Spy who Loved Me" starts out about an attempt to steal RAF Stealth Jet technology through blackmail, then moves to an insurance arson scam both of which Bond foils. In "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" Bond rescues a beautiful countess, Tracy, from her suicidal self. Bond & Traci's father, Draco, the head to the largest crime syndicate in Europe, destroy Bloefeld's, head of SPECTRE, allergen lab in the high Swiss Alps preventing the destruction of the UK's agriculture economy. Bond marries Tracy & becomes a widower on the same day at the hand of Bloefeld along with his mistress Irma Blunt. In "You Only Live Twice", Bond, melancholy over Tracy's death, is sent to Japan on an impossible task to gain access to cipher breaking technology. Bond meets with Tanaka, the head of Japan's secret service. Tanaka likes Bondsan disguises & teaches him how to disappear in Japan's culture. They make a pact, a foreigner bought a castle on a Japanese island, built a garden of death, planting it with every poisonous plant, along with adding deadly insects & fish, Japanese suicide seekers flock to the island & die. This is embarrassment to the Japanese government, they need an outsider to destroy the garden. Bond learns the owners of the castle are Bloefeld & Blunt. Tanaka hooks Bond up with a beautiful pearl diver. The two of them destroy the island but on making there escape, Bond loses his memory. This version of Fleming's novel is better than the film versions staring Connery or Craig "You Only Live Twice" & "No Time To Die". Great anthology, 5 stars

[Jennifer Fann-Tucker · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Jaymin Ewens · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh.

[Jeff Laporta · Rating 4 out of 5]

Didn't previously know there were James Bond comic strips done. I came across this and gave it a try. Very glad I did. Very enjoyable reads. Stays to the original story lines, with a different illustration perspective. Very entertaining and well done. I'll certainly get another.