The Spy Who Loved Me

James Bond comic strips #7

by Jim Lawrence (Adaptor), Ian Fleming, Yaroslav Horak (Illustrator)

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 two MI5 agents disappear in Jamaica, Bond is sent to investigate, but a mysterious assailant attempts to dispatch 007 with everything from poisoned nectarines to killer centipedes And when Bond links the attacks to the island of Crab Key, owned by the mysterious Doctor No, his troubles are just beginning This new edition also collects Diamonds Are Forever and From Russia, With Love Not only that, it also features a new introduction by Bond girl Eunice Gayson (Sylvia Trench in Dr No) and a feature on the post-Ian Fleming Bond novels.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Fiction, Comics

128 pages, Paperback

Published January 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

[itchy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quite the collection. I'm just sad that I wasn't able to acquire even half of what's available from the Daily Express.

[Michael P. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This collection is a bit of letdown after the past few. I find two substantial reasons for this. The title Ian Fleming novel would not give comic strip readers what they want, a James Bond adventure, so writer Jim Lawrence tossed the first half of the book and created a new way of getting Bond to Canada. That is a pretty good story, but it is disconnected from the second half which adapts the second part of Fleming's novel fairly faithfully. It is not a coherent read. Lawrence is now out of Fleming material to adapt, so the second story here is his own. To comment that it is not very good does not mean it is bad, it isn't, but Lawrence creates plot elements that do not feel very Bond. The first portion of the story are essentially a comic book situation and as soon as we see that the head of security for an industrial plant is held incommunicado so Bond can take his place, anybody who knows cliched plots knows what will happen later in the story. This story does not feel like Fleming, but it does feel like a Bond film, especially the Bond films that followed this story when Roger Moore played Bond. This was once a great comic strip. It isn't here. I hope it will be again.

[Priya Bhowal · Rating 4 out of 5]

My first James Bond read and it was an interesting read

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[Paul Warner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Classic comic versions of Bond adventures based on the books and original writings, not on the films.