Evanier: DC's James Bond

news from me: "I got to discussing this with some folks at the Mid-Ohio Con and they all suggested I post this story here. It's the story of how, during the James Bond craze of the sixties, DC Comics had an option to publish a 007 comic book and didn't know it.

The first Bond film, Doctor No, debuted in England in October of 1962. To coincide with that release, the British publisher of the Classics Illustrated comic book series issued an adaptation that was drawn by Norman J. Nodel. It was not, by the way, a terribly precise adaptation, at least of the movie, which Nodel does not appear to have seen when he drew the book. It has been suggested that the publisher had the right to adapt the screenplay but not necessarily the film based on it. The likeness of the lead character makes it seem like Nodel was told to draw a Bond that looked a lot like Sean Connery...but not exactly."

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