, and several background essays-this collection probably won't interest others. A curiosity for Fleming aficionados-there's an introduction by Shirley Eaton, who played Jill Masterson in Goldfinger He looked around and remembered a book he had used to identify the birds that flew over his mansion in Jamaica: Birds of the West Indies, by ornithologist James Bond. McLusky's art keeps the scripts' realistic tone and is well executed, yet it doesn't draw readers into the action the effect resembles looking at still photographs of people in sharp late-1950s outfits with a bit of stiffly depicted violence thrown in for good measure. Yet while Fleming's work is a rich foundation, the pacing of his stories is rendered choppy by the daily serialized format, and Gammidge's attempts at translating Fleming's taut suspense are flat. This fourth collection of the adapted novels includes GoldfingerĪnd three of the five short stories from For Your Eyes OnlyĪnd offers readers a glimpse into the tense world of Cold War-era espionage. On his way back to England after breaking up a drug smuggling operation, James Bond becomes stranded in Miami when his flight is canceled. Written in January and February 1958, it was first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape. Unlike the films, the comics stuck rather closely to the source novels, or as closely as the censors would allow. Goldfinger is the seventh novel in Ian Flemings James Bond series. Before Ian Fleming's secret agent 007 carved a lucrative niche in film, a daily comic strip ran in London's Daily Expressīeginning in 1958.
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