Love this homage cover (by Hal Haney, who you can find on social media):

We were talking yesterday about bad inkers on Kirby. Here is an example of George Roussos in Sgt. Fury #4. It was probably a rush job for both of them, still this is awful inking.

I believe it reprints an English adaptation (strip or book, I'm not sure) that's based more on the movie than the book.

The line in that documentary that stood out to me is talking about current print runs and sales-a best selling title sells about 100K copies, which means that if everyone in the large town/small city I live in (Springfield) got a copy, there would be zero copies available for any one else in the world. That's a damning example of how small actual comic readership for print periodicals is right now.

-M

It reprints the British Classics Illustrated comic, published by Thorpe & Porter, in 1962....




Thorpe & Porter published a UK edition of Classics Illustrated, from 1951-1963, consisting mostly of reprints of the American issues, with 13 original stories, including this one.  The interior story does pretty much follow the film adaptation, with some minor edits, such as eliminating the opening casino scenes with Bond & Sylvia Trench and trimming other scenes.  The Jamaican characters, like Quarrel and Pus Feller are colored pretty closely to the caucasian characters and Pus Feller's name is not used.  The interior likenesses are decent, for the actual actors, more so than the cover.  The movie mostly followed the novel, with some minor variations, such as a slightly different take on Honeychile Ryder.  In the novel, she was a local whose parents were killed and lived on her own.  Her father had not been a marine biologist, though she came from some wealth, as she was mostly raised by a Jamaican servant, who gave her the name Honeychile.  Ursuala Andress' portrayal isn't that different, as she is a pretty naive character.



There was a comic strip, but it debuted in 1958, in The Daily Express, with art by John McLusky and story by Anthony Hern (Casino Royale adaptation) and Henry Gammidge (everything up through You Only Live Twice).  The newspaper strip version of Dr No was written by Peter O'Donnell (1960), who would go on to create Modesty Blaise, 3 years later (1963).  McLusky continued on art until 1966, when Yaroslav Horak took over, and continued until the early 80s.  After they exhausted Fleming stories, they published an adaptation of Kingsley Amis' Colonel Sun novel, then new stories.

Speaking of Starlin and Dreadstar, there is another Dreadstar OGN by Starlin currently being Kickstarted if anyone is interested.

-M