Comics : Action / Adventure : English
Though there had been a James Bond newspaper strip as far back as the 1960s, the character didn't really start to intrude upon comics until the 1990s, when more than one publisher tried some Bond mini-series. The first one was Mike Grell's Permission to Die. The publishing history of this mini-series is, in itself, curious. It's three, 48 page issues...but one where there was a two year gap between the second and third issue! What's equally odd that is one might almost think it was only intended as a two-parter which then Grell decided to add to a little later.  The premise has secret agent 007, James Bond, assigned to get a woman out from behind the iron curtain (this being during the cold war) -- her uncle, a wealthy recluse, has offered Britain some rocket technology in return for this favour. And the first two issues pursue this story, ending with Bond getting the woman out. Which seems like a reasonable finish and, indeed, in the 1996 edition of the Comic Guide, they mistakenly list the series as being two issues long. The third issue then has Bond delivering the woman to her uncle and becoming embroiled in a, more or less, separate story, as her uncle turns out to have a hidden agenda and, in true Bond fashion, lives in a hidden HQ. But the fact that Mike Grell goes to great lengths to describe the uncle in the first issue (complete with mysterious disfigurement and enormous personal resources) even though he doesn't appear until the third, suggests Grell had, indeed, intended the whole series all along. ======================================================================================================== Dynamite proudly presents its first-ever crime noir series! A crime saga in comic book form as the story centers around buddy crooks and buddy cops and one unlikely official in the middle - with a target on his head!  Two cops. Two killers. A political scandal. One beautiful corpse. And a city gripped with fear. Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents Bullet to the Head - a classic crime noir tale of violence and revenge from writer Matz (Killer) and artist Colin Wilson (Ed Brubakers Point Blank)! ======================================================================================================== Comments and thanks are always welcome. | 
The premise has secret agent 007, James Bond, assigned to get a woman out from behind the iron curtain (this being during the cold war) -- her uncle, a wealthy recluse, has offered Britain some rocket technology in return for this favour. And the first two issues pursue this story, ending with Bond getting the woman out. Which seems like a reasonable finish and, indeed, in the 1996 edition of the Comic Guide, they mistakenly list the series as being two issues long. The third issue then has Bond delivering the woman to her uncle and becoming embroiled in a, more or less, separate story, as her uncle turns out to have a hidden agenda and, in true Bond fashion, lives in a hidden HQ. But the fact that Mike Grell goes to great lengths to describe the uncle in the first issue (complete with mysterious disfigurement and enormous personal resources) even though he doesn't appear until the third, suggests Grell had, indeed, intended the whole series all along. ======================================================================================================== Dynamite proudly presents its first-ever crime noir series! A crime saga in comic book form as the story centers around buddy crooks and buddy cops and one unlikely official in the middle - with a target on his head! 
Two cops. Two killers. A political scandal. One beautiful corpse. And a city gripped with fear. Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents Bullet to the Head - a classic crime noir tale of violence and revenge from writer Matz (Killer) and artist Colin Wilson (Ed Brubakers Point Blank)! ======================================================================================================== Comments and thanks are always welcome. 
RSS feed
