The Golden Ghost

James Bond comic strips #9

by Jim Lawrence, Yaroslav Horak

The legend continues Stand by for more adventures with the world's greatest secret agent, as some of his most thrilling missions are collected for the first time ever When SPECTRE contact the Secret Service, offering information about a soon-to-be-launched nuclear-powered airship called The Golden Ghost, Bond is sent to investigate. But is the airship really in danger, or is Madame Spectra luring 007 into a death trap?This new, never-before-collected edition also collects Fear Face, Double Jeopardy and Star Fire Plus a new introduction by Richard Kiel (Jaws) and exclusive features

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Action

120 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2006

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

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

I did try to read some of the newer Dynamite 007 comics and I cannot say honestly that they kinda convinced me, so I gave up reading them.
Finding this collection of several serialized comic-stories from newspaper releases made me curious and since the bargain price did nothing to convince me that it could be a waste of money I did buy the book.
These stories are from the early seventies an era where James Bond felt to be fairly exotic, something these stories do not exactly add to, they are a lot more fun than the navel-gazing emo Bond we had these last years. Too bad we did not have the release of the latest Bond-movie which means we have to wait longer for a new performer with a perhaps less emo feel to it (Cruise with his Ethan Hunt Mission Impossible movies has given us better actioners with some personal background as well and certainly employed better scriptwriters and gave us better movies).
They might look back on the comics history to get some ideas even if the more scifi-esque tales might be ignored (Dalton almost got the robot girl script which they gladly did not do) .
The comics are good stuff certainly for the more Ian Fleming orientated reader and gave some fun hours.
Based upon this collection I might certainly be tempted to spend some money on other installments.

[Krishnakumar Mohanasundaram · Rating 3 out of 5]

A perfect James Bond thriller ❤️

A magnificent craft on its maiden journey with all of London's VIPs which disappears without a clue..

And Bond is one of the passanger..

[Michael P. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simple plots, but well-told comic strip adventures.

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not something for every audience to be sure, but if one is a fan of Ian Fleming's most noted creation, this will be a comfort to read. With an introduction by the now late Richard Kiel and a write up on James Bond's cars, thus sizzles for the Bond completist. Casual fans will find it engaging enough, though the transition from serial strip to collected work does sap something due to formatting - and Bond again is left, in many ways, trapped between Fleming's words and Hollywood's interpretation when in this format. Still, the stories are serviceable and engaging enough but I would recommend Fleming's texts above this if one is just transitioning from film to the more literary 007. Still, hums along like a film in some aspects and one could do far worse than this work in seeking even further Bond works.

[Paul Fuhr · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting on a scholarly level for Bond fans, I suppose, but even then - I found these stories pretty thin and trying to have it both ways between grandiose sci-fi plot lines and Connery-era mood. It's novel to see 007 in comic strip form, sure, but that novelty wears thin really quickly.