BOND IS BACK — FROM THE DEAD!
James Bond: The Man With the Golden Gun © Titan Books
By Ian Fleming, James Lawrence & Yaroslav Horak
Bond is back! After 10 years out of print, Titan Books is proud to present the return of the world’s greatest secret agent, in a classic adventure!
James Bond is dead! Or so his employers at MI5 believe… until he attempts to assassinate his boss, M — because he’s been brainwashed by the KGB! With his conditioning removed, M sends Bond on a deadly mission: to track down the sadistic killer Francisco Scaramanga — ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’!
This collection also includes The Living Daylights, which finds a melancholy Bond facing another sharpshooter – a KGB sniper. Set across the jagged scar of the Berlin Wall, Bond’s finger is on the trigger… and into his sights walks a beautiful blonde musician!
[align=center]ALSO COMING SOON FROM TITAN BOOKS:
JAMES BOND: OCTOPUSSY – MAY 2004[/align]
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History
In January 1952 Ian Fleming sat down to write ‘the spy story to end all spy stories’, he completed the novel in around two months, but it wasn’t until April 1953 that Casino Royale was finally published by UK publisher Jonathan Cape.
On the 7th July 1958, UK tabloid the Daily Express launched its comic strip adaptation of Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale. Faithful renditions of the principal Bond novels were to follow, although the demands of a newspaper strip drove the narrative along in ways quite unlike those seen in the books.
The Express’ editors felt that each three-panel strip should contain a hook that would harpoon the readers and reel them back the following day, a task that could be extremely demanding on the writers and artists involved. The stories became far more plot-focused with little room for high-octane set pieces. What’s more, the Express insisted on protracted running times for many of the stories. Octopussy, for instance, ran for 27 weeks, The Hildebrand Rarity for 30 weeks – six months! At the time, this was considered very unusual for a newspaper strip.
Fleming was sufficiently taken with the work on the comic strips that he acknowledged them obliquely in the later books, switching Bond’s allegiance from The Times to the Daily Express. The paper provided a visual form for Bond for the first time, taking Fleming’s description from the book and giving it life – predating Sean Connery’s on-screen appearance by four years.
Such was the success of the adaptations that when Fleming’s Bond bibliography was finally exhausted, 33 new stories followed, all written by Jim Lawrence, a major achievement by any standard.
