The world’s greatest secret agent returns in some of his most thrilling missions ever!

MI5 believes 007 is dead... until a brainwashed Bond tries to assassinate M! His conditioning broken, Bond is sent on a deadly mission: to track down the sadistic killer Francisco Scaramanga — ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’!

This collection of the classic British newspaper strip also includes ‘The Living Daylights’, an in-depth article on the Bond books, a look at the Bond strip creators and an introduction by Lucy Fleming.

Bond is back! From the pages of British newspaper the Daily Express comes the global phenomenon that is James Bond! Ian Fleming’s serialised comic strip novels featuring the world’s greatest secret agent are reprinted here in new Collectors’ Library volumes. These classic stories are brought to the comic strip page by highly talented writer/artists James Lawrence and Yaroslav Horak. Expertly drawn and highly detailed, James Bond’s adventures are a nostalgic trip into the characters past and world. This volume features a special introduction by Ian Fleming’s niece, Lucy Fleming, an article on the origins of Bond, an article on Lawrence and Horak’s involvement with the comic strip, a story checklist, an article exploring the differences between the stories novel, comic strip and film and a bonus story The Living Daylights.

007 is in trouble. In The Man With the Golden Gun our secret agent becomes a lethal pawn sent to kill his boss by the KGB. M15 believe James Bond is dead until a brainwashed Bond attempts to assassinate M! With his KGB conditioning removed M sends Bond on a mission to redeem himself: to track down the sadistic Francisco Scaramanga, a marksmen who uses a pistol of gold to kill those who get in the way of his plans. But having to deal with KBG agents and femme fatales Bond realizes how tricky tracking him down is going to be. And in The Living Daylights Bond must deal with another sharpshooter. A KGB sniper is the target but things become more complicated when a beautiful musician enters the crosshairs. A collection of exciting, action-packed adventures that will leave every fan and newcomer shaken but not stirred!

Having been a journalist and a Navy Commander, Ian Fleming went on to great success with James Bond, writing twelve novels and nine short stories before his death in 1964. Additionally, Fleming also wrote children’s book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and two non-fiction books The Diamond Smugglers and Thrilling Cities. James Lawrence began his career scripting training films for the US Armed Forces before moving on to writing Bond, Buck Rogers and Joe Palooka. Yaroslav Horak has worked on comics like the outback adventure strip Mike Steele, Captain Fortune, Andrea, Cop Shop and Sergeant Pat of the Radio Patrol, in addition to creating The Mask and Jet Fury. He illustrated all the James Bond stories except Casino Royale.

“It’s a grittier, more cold-hearted Bond, closer in spirit to the novels than the hi-jinks of the cinema, but Yaroslav Horak’s stylishly scratchy art melds glamour with action for a refreshingly unconventional take on a familiar icon.” – SFX Magazine

“historical curio and rattling good yarn, it offers entertainment to spare.” – Movie Insider

“writer and artist not only pull off with consummate ease the difficult trick of keeping the story in the air in a daily series of two- and three- panel strips, but also maintain tension and action, and supply plenty of shocks, glamorous locations, and, of course, beautiful women.” – Paul McAuley

Classics · James Bond
Volume 5 in the series · Collects ?The Man With the Golden Gun? and ?The Living Daylights?