The Complete James Bond: Goldfinger - The Classic Comic Strip Collection 1960-66

These James Bond comic strips were probably read once and thrown away by the majority of readers who bought the Daily Express when it published Bond every day. These Titan hardback editions acknowledge the skill of communicating stories in just 3 panels a day. Quality presentation and printing renders the black and white artwork in all its glory and the adaptations of Fleming's original stories rattle along. Free from padding and moving the action along at a brisk pace, you can admire the underrated skills of both illustrator and writer. The unintentionally awful and hilarious introduction by Tania Mallet can safely be ignored, although other titles in this series contain more interesting reflections on just how influential these comic strips were by people who went on to work on the Bond films. indeed, many of the illustrations here could almost be storyboards for some of the early Bond movies they are that good.

I've always loved the art, music and graphic design involved with James Bond over the decades. The old comic strips are no exception. Sticking tight to the books, they are a magical way of quickly enjoying those brilliant original novels once again. And the art style is fantastic too. A must for Bond fans.

If only they were in colour....

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This big hardcover collection – 240 pages,10½ by 11½ inches in size, with 3 daily strips per page – reprints a set of the James Bond newspaper comic-strip stories from the days before the films began, when the writers and artists had nothing but the novels and their descriptions to work with as far as appearances went, and ended up with a lead character that bears an uncanny resemblance to Sean Connery, and, when a Bond film was first being discussed, Fleming himself suggested that the producers should take a look at a certain young Scottish actor…The collection is not reprinted in chronological order, so you have Goldfinger sharing a volume with the final novel The Man With The Golden Gun, which was a direct sequel to You Only Live Twice. These are the two longest stories here, 54 pages and 72 pages, respectively, with four short and shorter stories making up the rest.Goldfinger and the next three shorter stories (Risico, 16pp; From A View To A Kill, 24pp; For Your Eyes Only, 28pp) run consecutively from 1960 to the end of 1961, and Golden Gun and the subsequent short story (The Living Daylights, 28pp) run through 1966.I have read the novels themselves two or three times, in sequence, since first being introduced to them as a schoolboy after seeing the first Connery films – and these ARE Fleming’s James Bond stories, though edited/adapted slightly for strip continuity.I have read some of these many years ago, in Titan’s paperback series, but started reading Goldfinger again yesterday and just kept going until I finished it. While typing this, when I went to count the pages, I started reading the opening pages of Golden Gun, and just got so sucked in that I had to forcibly stop myself, but not before going to the end of the opening sequence.These are superb stories and comics, and give their American cousins a run for their money. Now, bring on Modesty Blaise!