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  • Aziz_FekkeshAziz_Fekkesh Royale-les-Eaux
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    I thought this was going to be about the stellar Titan reprints :(. Never read these comics.
  • oo7oo7
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    Fekkesh you will find links to downloads in the first post
  • oo7oo7
    edited August 2013 Posts: 1,068
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    bond manga
  • oo7oo7
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    not quite bond but...jack kirby's THE PRISONER
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited March 2014 Posts: 18,281
    That Bond manga looks most fascinating. I remember seeing that middle Bond image used by a member here on our community, but I can't remember who it was. Now I know where the image comes from, so thanks for that @oo7!
  • Master_DaharkMaster_Dahark
    edited December 2013 Posts: 4,813
    oo7 wrote:
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    bond manga
    That looks like Golgo 13- like, exactly like him!

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    Gotta shave those 'burns
  • karl007karl007
    Posts: 151
    Dragonpol wrote:
    That Bond manga looks miost fascinating. I remember seeing that middle Bond image used by a member here on our community, but I can't remember who it was. Now I know where the image comes from, so thanks for that @oo7!
    That would be me! anyhow i would love to get my hands on Takao Saito's james bond manga its nearly impossible to find it...the golgo 13 character came about after he wrote the james bond manga in 1964.its easy to see were the influence's for golgo were drawn from.
  • bigladiesmanbigladiesman
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    karl007 wrote:
    Dragonpol wrote:
    That Bond manga looks miost fascinating. I remember seeing that middle Bond image used by a member here on our community, but I can't remember who it was. Now I know where the image comes from, so thanks for that @oo7!
    That would be me! anyhow i would love to get my hands on Takao Saito's james bond manga its nearly impossible to find it...the golgo 13 character came about after he wrote the james bond manga in 1964.its easy to see were the influence's for golgo were drawn from.

    Another Saito fan here. It would be cool to find at least some RAWs. As an avid otaku, I have to say that I read the novels trying to imagine the aestethics of this manga and Saito's general style.
    8-}

    No, seriously: I do.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Here's a couple of Mad Magazine comics parodying Bond:

    For Your Thighs Only

    #229 March 1982 Writer: Arnie Kogen; Artist: Mort Drucker

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    If James Bond Were "Updated" for the Politically-Correct '90s

    #340 Oct/Nov 1995 Writer: Mike Snider; Artist: Angelo Torres

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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Awesome. Thank you ever so much, @QBranch!
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Not a problem. Sorry it's not in single PDF form. I spotted one about Moonraker, I'll try to find a copy.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    "It could be better. I could be tied to Sean Connery." Haha!
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Hehe I got a good chuckle out of it.

    Krispytoast: "And that is her Coach and Watchdog, Vilma Crank, herself a former Olympic champion!"

    Bomb: "Oh...? And what was her EVENT?"

    Krispytoast: "The Women's 400 Meter SCOWL!"

    Bomb: "Are you sure?!?"

    Krispytoast: "About the 'SCOWL' part...?"

    Bomb: "No... about the 'WOMEN'S' part!!"

    =))
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    hehehe... Looking forward to MR if you find it. Never read that one.
  • ggl007ggl007 www.archivo007.com Spain, España
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    Love MAD spoofs!
    Take a look: http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2012/11/mad_magazine_james_bond_parodies_skyfall.php
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Thanks for the link, @ggl007! From Russia with Lunacy and Dollars Are Forever were the stand out ones for me!
  • ggl007ggl007 www.archivo007.com Spain, España
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    You´re very welcome, @QBranch.

    We have all of them in this great Russian site: http://james-bond.ru/page/main.html/_/комиксы/комиксы-mad-magazine-r326 (comics are in English)

    Somebody asked for Moneyraker? http://www.james-bond.ru/mad/moneyraker1.htm
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Spasiba,@ggl007! I have bookmarked it to read it all later. I had a lookthrough and some good laughs.

    "So you claim to be a famous marine biologist, eh, Mr. Alias? Then tell me...what do you call that specie?"
    "Er...that is a fish."
    "I see you really know your stuff!"
  • Villiers53Villiers53
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    oo7 wrote:
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    looks like a complete checklist.
    I see that topps decided to pull the publication of the rest of goldeneye.

    Sorry Murdock. I know the daily express dailys are republished but as for the rest I will keep my eye peeled.

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    This is the Daily Express original - bravo!
    One little known fact is that the adaptation was written by the late, great, Peter O'donnell who went on to out-Bond 007 with his fabulous Modesty Blaise series!

  • oo7oo7
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    http://www.superherohype.com/news/317603-dynamite-entertainment-to-publish-james-bond-comics-starting-in-2015
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    Does anyone have scanned versions of Minute of Midnight and Light of My Death? They are only the ones I don't appear to have in my collection, besides A Silent Armageddon, but then again, that's an incomplete one.
  • GunbarrelGunbarrel
    Posts: 32
    Hello fellow Bond fans. I don't know if there's been a lot of discussion about the Chilean Bond comics on this site, but it's a fun and nostalgic (albeit crude) series of comics published by Zig Zag in the late 1960's. I believe they acquired a license to publish these things back then based on the novels, but the character of 007 is so obviously drawn to look like Connery that I believe that the only reason they weren't sued by EON is that they were only published in South America, and never in English. They handled the series in an interesting way, by serializing the novels over many issues and mixing it in with original material. They covered the novel Goldfinger over five issues, #10 to #14. I've taken the liberty of translating them to English and posting them for all our pleasure, to bide the time until SPECTRE comes out.
    Here's the first 2 issues, unfortunately spread out over 7 links.
    If there's any interest, I'll post the remaining 3 issues in the story arc.
    You'll be prompted for a password, and of course its:
    bondjamesbond

    Please enjoy:

    http://zigzagf01.tumblr.com/post/130023372258

    http://zigzaggf02.tumblr.com/

    http://zigzaggf03.tumblr.com/

    http://zigzaggf4.tumblr.com/

    http://zigzagf05.tumblr.com/

    http://zigzaggf06.tumblr.com/

    http://zigzaggf07.tumblr.com/

    And of course if there's problems with the link, please let me know.
    Thanks.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    You know, @Gunbarrel? You're a hero! I tip my hat off to you in utmost respect, sir!
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    By the way... As I've been doing a Bond comic book marathon, I've come to conclusion to rate them from my most to least favourite. Is there anyone who would be committed to it? However, I exclude Marvel's publication of For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy since I haven't got them nor read them.

    @mcdonbb, my good friend, I think you need an invitation into this. :D

    So, here goes my list.

    1-Serpent's Tooth
    2-Permission To Die
    3-Doctor No
    4-A Silent Armageddon*
    5-Licence To Kill
    6-Light of My Death
    7-The Quasimodo Gambit
    8-Minute of Midnight
    9-GoldenEye**
    10-VARGR
    11-Shattered Helix

    *- Despite being incomplete, the storytelling plus the artwork is just fascinating I could rank it as high. I wish one day we'd get it issued into full.

    **-Only one issue is released, while being cartoony, I like it enough to put it on a rank above VARGR and Shattered Helix. I just wish we'd get it issued in its complete form, one day. The disadvantage is that Topps Comics (who published the first issue) was defunct in 1998, two years after they cancelled the adaptation.
  • RevelatorRevelator
    edited February 2016 Posts: 2,918
    A funny story: I sent my little brother, who was around 11 or 12 years old at the time, to our local comic shop buy an issue of Permission to Die. So he went in and asked the comic book guy at the cash register, "Do you have Permission to Die?"
    The guy stared at him and said "What the fuck are you talking about?"
    "It's a comic."
    "Oh!" he said. After a brief search, he reported it wasn't in stock.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    Haha! That was funny! :))
  • mcdonbbmcdonbb deep in the Heart of Texas
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    ClarkDevlin wrote: »
    By the way... As I've been doing a Bond comic book marathon, I've come to conclusion to rate them from my most to least favourite. Is there anyone who would be committed to it? However, I exclude Marvel's publication of For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy since I haven't got them nor read them.

    @mcdonbb, my good friend, I think you need an invitation into this. :D

    So, here goes my list.

    1-Serpent's Tooth
    2-Permission To Die
    3-Doctor No
    4-A Silent Armageddon*
    5-Licence To Kill
    6-Light of My Death
    7-The Quasimodo Gambit
    8-Minute of Midnight
    9-GoldenEye**
    10-VARGR
    11-Shattered Helix

    *- Despite being incomplete, the storytelling plus the artwork is just fascinating I could rank it as high. I wish one day we'd get it issued into full.

    **-Only one issue is released, while being cartoony, I like it enough to put it on a rank above VARGR and Shattered Helix. I just wish we'd get it issued in its complete form, one day. The disadvantage is that Topps Comics (who published the first issue) was defunct in 1998, two years after they cancelled the adaptation.

    Very nice list. Thanks for thinking of me.

    There are so many other collections I would love to read as well.



  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
    edited February 2016 Posts: 15,423
    mcdonbb wrote: »
    ClarkDevlin wrote: »
    By the way... As I've been doing a Bond comic book marathon, I've come to conclusion to rate them from my most to least favourite. Is there anyone who would be committed to it? However, I exclude Marvel's publication of For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy since I haven't got them nor read them.

    @mcdonbb, my good friend, I think you need an invitation into this. :D

    So, here goes my list.

    1-Serpent's Tooth
    2-Permission To Die
    3-Doctor No
    4-A Silent Armageddon*
    5-Licence To Kill
    6-Light of My Death
    7-The Quasimodo Gambit
    8-Minute of Midnight
    9-GoldenEye**
    10-VARGR
    11-Shattered Helix

    *- Despite being incomplete, the storytelling plus the artwork is just fascinating I could rank it as high. I wish one day we'd get it issued into full.

    **-Only one issue is released, while being cartoony, I like it enough to put it on a rank above VARGR and Shattered Helix. I just wish we'd get it issued in its complete form, one day. The disadvantage is that Topps Comics (who published the first issue) was defunct in 1998, two years after they cancelled the adaptation.

    Very nice list. Thanks for thinking of me.

    There are so many other collections I would love to read as well.


    Don't mention it, mate. And thank you. :D

    Well, these are all the Bond comic books that I've listed, but if we're talking about the comic strips that are collected by Titan Books in Omnibuses, well that's a different thing. :D

    By the way, as I've said, perhaps in a few days, Dynamite might make an announcement about their next Bond comic book, or perhaps next week. I have the feeling it will be the comic adaptation of Fleming's novel Casino Royale, alongside its writer and artist, and perhaps a cover art, too. In the same article when a discussion was made with Ellis and senior editor Joseph Rybandt about VARGR, the latter did say they were working on the aforementioned adaptation.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    @timmer, here it is.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    RIVER OF DEATH by Lawrence and Horak was my first encounter with Bond in the early 70s. It s a great one.
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