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Rare Doctor No comic book on Ebay!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Showcase-43-Adaptation-of-James-Bonds-Dr-No-movie-CBCS-6-5-scarce-book/292208847280?hash=item44090129b0:g:3iQAAOSwOLJZisZq
Awesome item to have but very expensive!
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As far as I know it's a pretty rare item. Certainly one I wouldn't mind adding to my collection.
Oh, no! Reading this makes me want to place all my comics in waterproof boxes!
Comic books go for incredible prizes these days. Mint condition ones are probably hard to come by, but still.
Sorry to hear that, @Birdleson. That would make an interesting addition to that thread by @PropertyOfALady on damaged Bond items.
It does. I've known about it since 1995, in my early days as a Bond fan. However, I never knew that it was quite so scarce or valuable. A lot beyond my budget I'm afraid. I'm mad but not quite that mad!
However, I'd love to get my hands on an actual copy of the original UK release of the Classics Illustrated.
You've reminded me that there was in fact a digitised version of this comic online at one stage. It may still be out there somewhere. Much better value!
Years ago I downloaded some pages of it (don't know from where), but I have yet to see and read the full comic.
Perhaps I have it in .pdf file format somewhere in my PC. I'll have to check.
Nice! Sure there's many of us that have yet to read the full thing! :-)
http://www.the007dossier.com/007dossier/Magazines/dc-comics-dr-no/Med/dr-no-comic.pdf
Sweet - will be an interesting read! No need to go through the trouble finding the PDF, @Dragonpol!
Anyone know the artist? Couldn't see anything other than an unreadable signature on the first page of the story.
Thanks for the info! Don't think I've ever seen artwork by either Norman J Nodel or Bob Brown other than this Showcase comic book.
As a regular eBay surfer, I see at least one of these issues up for auction on the U.S. site weekly. I don't own one myself, but wouldn't mind. The issue the original poster linked was a graded copy, so that's going to make it more valuable.
Problem is you can't take it out of that plastic container or it loses the graded seal and if I have a piece of memorabilia like a comic then I want to be able to read it. It's different for sports cards, which you can see both sides of even if they are graded and slabbed.
Interesting! Take it that the Classics Illustrated version is a completely different thing from the DC Showcase one?
Idiotic, indeed. A product of it's time, but with the film having several black characters, you'd expect them to keep it that way. Dr. No is actually a very diverse film, come to think of it – even if the story allows it to be!
Was the ethnicity issue so difficult in the U.S. at the time, that even a secondary character in a comic book couldn't be coloured?
It's just so strange, and most of all sad. And you're absolutely right, he wasn't even an American. Would love to see the Classics Illustrated version at some point. At least that one seems to have done the colouring properly.