JAMES BOND IS BACK!
(With all due apologies to the THUNDERBALL movie poster.)
Back in 2018, I started looking at the James Bond newspaper strips originally syndicated in Britain's Daily Express in the 1950s and '60s. I got about halfway through the series, and then was forced to stop due to a number of factors in my life at the time. It was the first retrospective series I ever failed to complete, and it has bothered me ever since. I vowed at the time that I would finish my originally intended run (all of the strips that adapted Ian Fleming's original novels) someday. And now, five-and-a-half years later (seriously?!), it's time.
There are eight storylines left, but a few are based on short stories -- so I've broken it out to three posts in total, which will take us right up to the end of the year. And I know we're going to sail right through to the end of this thing, because unlike last time, I've already written up all the posts! As previously, the main crux of these posts will be to compare and contrast the quite faithful newspaper adaptations with the typically more loosely adapted (or in some cases totally made up) films.
For those who need a refresher, or perhaps weren't even born yet those many years ago when I started this project, here are the first five posts in the series:
JAMES BOND NEWSPAPER STRIPS PART 1
JAMES BOND NEWSPAPER STRIPS PART 2
JAMES BOND NEWSPAPER STRIPS PART 3
JAMES BOND NEWSPAPER STRIPS PART 4
JAMES BOND NEWSPAPER STRIPS PART 5
And with that, we'll reconvene next week to get to it. See you then!

the infamous Story fake Hoax Myth:John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) burning tobacco barn in which he had hidden, John Wilkes Booth was shot in the neck by corbett soldier. The assassin d.o.d.or do you believe -1907, Finis L. Bates wrote Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth- "John St. Helen" and settled on the Paluxy River near Glen Rose, Texas, and later moved to Granbury, Texas in Enid, Oklahoma, under the alias "David E. George1903. People wrote all kinds of books about Booth?1) Clarke, Asia Booth. 2) Townsend, George Alfred 3)Steers, Edward.4)Leonard F Guttridge/RayA Neff. 5) W_ C_ Jameson 6)-Rhodehamel 7)FinisBates 8) Otto EisenSchiml 9)Brad Meltzer 10)Wm H Herndon. 11)Daniel Edwards.12)Robt Arnold.LOTS Others.12) Do you believe Abe -Stanton reaper machine case 1855, and Cyrus McCormick/John H. Manny?13)Lafayette Curry Baker( 1826-1868)Luther Byron Baker, and Everton J. Conger.At garrett farm? 14) Booth's diary, written between abtApril 14–26, 1865.The Missing 18 pages?Nixon 18 min Erase Tape? 15.)John Parker Hale, a Senator Daughter Lucy Lambert Hale Chandler picture booth wallet?16,)MarySurratt hung Son John Surratt went Free?17.)John Singleton Mosby (December 6, 1833 – May 30, 1916)Statement He had his men in vicinity of Booth and He had his Men help Booth?18.)Booth belong Kgc KKK? 19.)Booth Left his Card in Andrew Johnson mailbox ?20.)Rumor booth at garrett farm had Red beard/hair didn't look like him?(montack dr said )21).james W Boyd.confederate Spy?Mystery? Boyd request stanton let go home (Oldcapitolprison)?22)Parker guard that left post(saloon) so booth shot abe ford theatre?23)cospirators Had hoods & Johnson/Stanton want tribunal trial &lots evidence hidden from case?24)Who were Abe Friends who were Abe Enemies?25)stanton/grant/Johnson buddies?falling out?26)jesse james(, J. Frank Dalton/James L. Courtney ) & billy the Kid (Brushy Bill Roberts/John Miller )Story came out 1950s?27)Men/Women left - later found alive&assume alias new identity?
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