The Man with the Golden Gun

James Bond comic strips #1

by Jim Lawrence (Adapter), Yaroslav Horak, Lucy Fleming (Foreword)

James Bond is dead!--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 Francisco Scaramanga, "The Man with the Golden Gun". But with a KGB agent & the usual quota of beautiful, treacherous girls in his path, will Bond survive?
Also features "The Living Daylights" plus background on Ian Fleming & a foreword by his niece, Lucy Fleming.

Genres: Adventure, Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Ebooks

80 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2004

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

[Michael P.]

Now that Yaroslav Horak is drawing the JAMES BOND comic strip the stories have a matching look, more compelling visual storytelling, and an appropriately rougher edge. One of the better underknown (in the U. S.) strips.

[itchy]

These old comic adaptations are just superb.

[Timo]

So much good fun are these adaptions. This is the way all adaptions should be made. Good fun.

[Brian]

I enjoyed seeing the story broken down into daily segments, and the art style is very fun.