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Illustration on Cover, Front

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Penciller(s): Shuttershock (photograph)

Inker(s): Shuttershock (photograph)

Colorist(s): Shuttershock (photograph)

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): James Bond

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Pages: 1

The Harpies

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Jim Lawrence

Penciller(s): Yaroslav Horak

Inker(s): Yaroslav Horak

Letterer(s): Yaroslav Horak

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): James Bond

Character(s): Mary Corning (Harpy, deceased); Inspector Craig (Scotland Yard); Professor John Phineus (Cambridge University); Bill Tanner (Chief of Staff); James Bond; M; The Harpies (all-female gang); Lord Burwell (Director of The Royal Physics Laboratory, Cambridge); Simon Nero (Aerotronics Ltd.); Miss Moneypenny; Reece Mulyan (ex-C.I.D., Security Chief); Flo Divine (two-timing girlfriend, exotic dancer); Nick Stremko; Dr. Odile Cazan (Chief Executive Assistant; gymnast, aerialist); Brunski (guard, ex-Foreign Legion); Helen Nero; Barry Kemp (Security); McShane (Security, Section 1)

Synopsis: Professor Phineus, inventor of the "Q-Ray", is kidnapped by an all-girl gang called The Harpies. When Bond suspects they're connected with Simon Nero's Aerotronics plant, he takes a job as Security Chief to find Phineus before his inventions falls into the wrong hands.

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Pages: 56

Notes: Story #19. 1st in a long series of "original" 007 stories not based on any previously-existing novels or short stories. The sub-plot involving an all-girl gang led by a circus aerialist predates the film OCTOPUSSY by 15 years.

River of Death

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Jim Lawrence

Penciller(s): Yaroslav Horak

Inker(s): Yaroslav Horak

Letterer(s): Yaroslav Horak

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): James Bond

Character(s): Charles Benoit (French Foreign Office); James Bond; Bill Tanner (Chief of Staff); Chao Ho-Shu (Red Cinese defector); M; L.T. Grey (exotic animal dealer); Miguel (assistant); Dr. Cat (alias Joao Onca; Red Chinese torturer & inquisitor); Jorge Dias Station Chief, Rio); Fernando Gomez (industrialist); Kitty Redwing (C.I.A.); Senhora Carvalho; Souza (professional hunter); Miss Moneypenny

Synopsis: A series of murders committed by trained exotic animals leads Bond to Brazil, where he teams with Native American CIA agent Kitty Redwing against Dr. Cat, possibly the sickest villain in the series, who is performing biochemical & germ warfare experiments, and has sadistic medical ideas about how to deal with Bond.

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Pages: 35

Notes: Story #20.

Colonel Sun

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Kingsley Amis [as Robert Markham] (story); Jim Lawrence (adaptation)

Penciller(s): Yaroslav Horak

Inker(s): Yaroslav Horak

Letterer(s): Yaroslav Horak

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): James Bond

Character(s): James Bond; Admiral Sir Miles Messervy ("M"); Hammond (butler, deceased); Quantz (thug); Miss Moneypenny; Bill Tanner (Chief of Staff); Sir Ranald Rideout (Cabinet Minister); Stuart Thomas (MI-6, Athens); De Graaf (thug); Colonel Sun Liang-Tan (People's Liberation Army); Dr. Lohmann; Ariadne Alexandrou (Russian GRU); Tzimas (GRU); Gordienko (GRU); Markos (GRU); Niko Litsas (WW2 resistence fighter); Herr Hauptmann Von Richter ("The Butcher of Kapoudzona"); General Arenski (KGB)

Synopsis: M is kidnapped and taken to Greece by Red Chinese agents, who also lure Bond there after failing to capture him as well. He teams with Ariadne Alexandrou of the Russian Army, although General Arenski of the KGB refuses to believe her report about what's going on. Colonel Sun Liang-Tan & Hauptmann Von Richter (an escaped Nazi war criminal) plan to destroy an important Russian conference and leave the bodies of M & Bond in the rubble, in the hopes of sparking WW3.

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Pages: 55

Notes: Story #21. Faithful adaptation of Kingsley Amis' only 007 novel (the 15th book in the series) from 1968. While this story has never been adapted as any of the films, elements from it have turned up in THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (1999) and DIE ANOTHER DAY (2002); the sequence on The Acropolis, leading to Bond's teaming up with a female Russian agent, also mirrors that set near the Pyramids in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1977).

The Golden Ghost

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Jim Lawrence

Penciller(s): Yaroslav Horak

Inker(s): Yaroslav Horak

Letterer(s): Yaroslav Horak

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): James Bond

Character(s): Madama Spectra; James Bond; Bill Tanner; M; Miss Moneypenny; Kapski (SPECTRE); Bridget Penwyn ("The Cornish Witch"); Felix Ignace Bruhl (promoter); Captain Arno Kane (pilot); Velvet Lee (stewardess); Regan (thug); Sutton (co-pilot); Slater (thug)

Synopsis: Madame Spectra tries to sell MI-6 information, but her agent is killed before the exchange can be made. However, a popular psychic's prediction tips Bond that the info concerned the maiden flight of a new dirigible, "The Golden Ghost". Felix Bruhl, main promoter of the project (and former associate of the late Ernst Blofeld) plots a hijacking in order to ransom the crowd of bigwigs onboard for 20 million pounds! He also tries to have Bond keelhauled thru shark-infested waters (shades of LIVE AND LET DIE), but Bond escapes and metes out justice to Bruhl & his thugs.

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Pages: 32

Notes: Story #22. Jim Lawrence's 3rd original storyline. The fight in the galley is very similar to a sequence in the later film, THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1987).

Fear Face

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Jim Lawrence

Penciller(s): Yaroslav Horak

Inker(s): Yaroslav Horak

Letterer(s): Yaroslav Horak

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): James Bond

Character(s): Fred Palmer; Sandra Simon (stripper); Belinda Thorsen (alias Briony Thorne, Agent 0013, suspected traitor); M; Bill Tanner (Chief of Staff); James Bond; Miss Moneypenny; Sir William Magnus (Magnus Mining Ltd.); Ferenc Kress (head of spy network); Derek (Fleet Street reporter); Ivor Lambert (consulting engineer); Inspector Craig (Special Branch);

Synopsis: Suspected traitor Briony Thorne returns to England, and tries to convince Bond she was kidnapped & framed by a foreign spy network. Risking his career, her info leads Bond to a complicated scheme involving a mining industrialist, an expert in robotics, a faked robbery, several double-crosses and a walking mechanical killer.

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Pages: 20

Notes: Story #23.

Double Jeopardy

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Credits

Writer(s): Jim Lawrence

Penciller(s): Yaroslav Horak

Inker(s): Yaroslav Horak

Letterer(s): Yaroslav Horak

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): James Bond

Character(s): Dr. Cyrus Harding (Manhattan Museum Of Art); Chief Foley (Museum Security); Lady Cynthia Winter; M'sieu Aristide Brizaud (Brizaud Chemicals); James Bond; Bill Tanner (Chief of Staff); Sir John Winter (Ministry of Defence); M; Pujar (SPECTRE); Mister K (alias Fritz Kamura, Chinese Intelligence); Hassan Murad (MI-6, Morocco); Lalla Sadub (nurse); Dr. Tatianu (alias Nicolai Basilescu, plastic surgeon); Martin Lewis (U.S. Defence Secretary): Hamid (thug); Sir Hamish Weston (British observer)

Synopsis: A series of blackmailings and murders involving surgically created doubles leads Bond to a SPECTRE plot to sabotage a US-Russian peace conference.

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Pages: 28

Notes: Story #24. The hang-glider sequence is almost identical to the one used 2 years later in the film LIVE AND LET DIE (1973), while the plot involving doubles (a popular idea used in countless series, including several episodes of THE AVENGERS) was later used in the Raymond Benson 007 novel DOUBLESHOT (2000).

Star Fire

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Jim Lawrence

Penciller(s): Yaroslav Horak

Inker(s): Yaroslav Horak

Letterer(s): Yaroslav Horak

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): James Bond

Character(s): Sir Robert Wullam (Colonel, Wessex Fusiliers, retired); Sergeant-Major Corley; "Lord Astro" (leader, hippie cult); Jennifer Wullam (cult member); Luke Quantrill (design engineer); Donald Reitz McGrath (CIA); Perelli (CIA); Bill Tanner (Chief of Staff); James Bond; Miss Moneypenny; Professor Alfred Corbet; M; Victor Strawn (Rex Industries); Dave (chauffeur); Alan Quantrill; Judy Quantrill; M'Sieu Dutard; Roche (SPECTRE)

Synopsis: Bond investigates another complex mystery involving a cult leader's predictions of death, a series of murders committed by remote-control "fireballs", personal revenge and a SPECTRE plot to get ahold of the plans for a top-secret airplane.

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Pages: 26

Notes: Story #25. This story marks the last appearance of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. in the strip until "DOOMCRACK", 10 years later.