James Bond: The Man With the Golden Gun (James Bond (Graphic Novels)) (Paperback)

by Ian Fleming (Author), Yaroslav Horak (Author), James Lawrence (Illustrator) "The Secret Service holds much that is kept secret even from very senior officers in the organization..." (more)
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"...this is a fantastic collection, and hopefully Titan intends to reprint every strip on its checklist." -- www.sci-fi-online.com review by Richard McGinlay

Product Description
Bond is back! 007, the world’s greatest secret agent, returns in a classic adventure!

James Bond is dead! Or so his employers at MI5 believe... until he attempts to assassinate his boss, M — because he’s been brainwashed by the KGB! With his conditioning removed, M sends Bond on a deadly mission; to track down Francisco Scaramanga — "The Man with the Golden Gun"! But with a KGB agent and the usual quotient of beautiful, treacherous girls in his path, will Bond make it back?

Also features the story, "The Living Daylights", plus background on Bond creator, Ian Fleming, and a foreword by Ian Fleming’s niece, Lucy Fleming.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Titan Books (March 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1840236906
• ISBN-13: 978-1840236903
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #937,628 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Did Fleming Finish This Book?, January 25, 2005

By	David B. Fox (Los Angeles, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Man With The Golden Gun (James Bond Novels) (Paperback)

The James Bond novels have been a staple in my home for over 40 years, since I started reading them at 10 years old. I read every novel once every two years it seems, as Fleming's impeccable writing, his plots, his villians, and most of all, the decription of detail that makes reading these novels the ultimate escape.
That said, I think I know how Fleming writes...
Each time I read this book, I get a growing feeling that not only did Ian Fleming not finish the book, it seems like he wrote almost exactly HALF, and some one else took over upon his death.
As a little Fleming is better than none at all, I still read the book.
Ian Fleming wrote 007 Novels for 11 years. They are all superb, wuth the earlier, grittier ones being the best. I don't play cards, but I was sweating along with Bond while he played Le Chiffre at Casino Royale.
You get that same marvelous sense of being in the story the first half of The Man With The Golden Gun, and then the story (and the writing) seem to go wrong.
I report, you decide.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Bond adventures far different from the movies, May 12, 2004

By	John Siuntres (Niles, IL United States) - See all my reviews

How influential were the Bond comic strips? Desmond Lewellyn (Q) was on record saying he never read the Flemming novels, but was quite a fan of the Daily Mail strip.Clearly the casting of Sean Connery had to be inspired by the image of Bond in the original run of the comic strip, which began in 1958, four years before the film Dr. No.

These stories were published in 1966 , nearly 10 years before the Roger Moore film version, and 20 yrs before the Timothy Dalton movie. These are not the gadget driven romps that the films have become, this is solid, cold war action. The plots and characters share names with the film versions, but their charcterizations and motivations are far different, and surprisingly more complex.

This JB is the classic Ian Flemming Bond,adapted by Jim Lawrence, with beautiful art from Yaroslav Horak, that carrys on the tradition of excellence established by the strips first core team of Henry Gammidge & John McClusky. Titan Books has produced a solid collection , that begs for more volumes to follow.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars hey, it's not THAT bad, June 14, 2004

By	Bryant Burnette "Bryant Burnette" (Tuscaloosa, AL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Man With The Golden Gun (James Bond Novels) (Paperback)

Afraid I've got to take issue with a one-star rating for this novel. Sure, it's not the best Bond novel -- that's probably "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," although I've also got a soft spot for the unusual "The Spy Who Loved Me" -- but it's hardly a bad novel. Scaramanga, far from being a terrible villain, is actually one of the more memorable Fleming ever wrote. I enjoy the way in which he serves as a sort of dark mirror for Bond himself, and that makes me feel like Fleming was actually just trying something different with this novel. That may or may not make it one of the lesser of his Bond novels, but I think saying that it's just plain bad is an overstatement.

Anyways, if you're a Bond fan, you still ought to give the novel a look.