James Bond: Goldfinger - Softcover

Fleming, Ian; Gammidge, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840239085 ISBN 13: 9781840239089

Publisher: Titan Books, 2005

Synopsis

The legend continues! Stand by for more adventures with the world's greatest secret agent, as some of his most thrilling missions are collected for the first time ever! Modern-day King Midas, Auric Goldfinger, plans on ruining the economies of the Free World and using his own vast hoard of gold to control the planet.

About this title

About the Author:

Ian Fleming is the world-famous novelist and creator of James Bond. Henry Gammidge worked in close collaboration with artist John McClusky - the pair adapted eleven of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. John McLusky was originally a Second World War artist for Bomber Command. As well as the Bond adaptations, McClusky also drew comic strips for various publications, featuring the likes of Laurel & Hardy and Pink Panther.

From Publishers Weekly:

Before Ian Fleming's secret agent 007 carved a lucrative niche in film, a daily comic strip ran in London's Daily Express beginning in 1958. Unlike the films, the comics stuck rather closely to the source novels, or as closely as the censors would allow. This fourth collection of the adapted novels includes Goldfinger, Thunderball and three of the five short stories from For Your Eyes Only and offers readers a glimpse into the tense world of Cold War-era espionage. 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. 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. A curiosity for Fleming aficionados--there's an introduction by Shirley Eaton, who played Jill Masterson in Goldfinger, and several background essays--this collection probably won't interest others. (Jan.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1840239085
• ISBN 13: 9781840239089
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Illustrator: McCluskey John