CHB’s Comic Strip Thread

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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,154MI6 Agent

    The first of two James Bond MAD parodies…Drew Friedman’s art is terrific.



    Another one tomorrow.

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,707Chief of Staff

    Yup…the artwork is superb 🍸

    YNWA 97
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,154MI6 Agent

    This is the last of the MAD parodies that I have and….hmmm it seems to hit the nail on the head several times…



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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,806Chief of Staff

    😁😁😁 In fact, a pretty fair review (the flaws don't stop me liking that one, though). Poor George!

    And sadly that last line was accurate foreshadowing....

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,154MI6 Agent
    edited May 23

    Long before House Of Hammer magazine were doing the Hammer comic strips (of which all have been posted on this thread) the legendary magazine Famous Monsters Of Filmland tried their hand at a couple - the first one as follows…



    Though the artwork is fine the story is severely truncated, although the ending is more detailed and better than the later adaptation. A mixture of the two would have been perfect.

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,806Chief of Staff

    Wow, that is one abbreviated adaptation. It's good as far as it goes but as you say severely truncated.

    (Remember the "Daily Express" comic strip of TB having to be rapidly concluded? Something like "And then James and Felix found the bombs. The End" 😁 The above reminds me of that)

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,154MI6 Agent

    Yes, I remember the TB strip being curtailed due to some form of legal action, probably instigated by McClory (though I may be wrong with that assumption).

    And here is FMOF’s shortened take on Hammer’s Curse Of Frankenstein.




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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,806Chief of Staff

    And again, that is a very compressed version. Very unsatisfying also, missing on little things like character, atmosphere, and so on. I take it the writer and artist (praise for the art) were on a page limit. Good thing they weren't handling something like "The Godfather, Parts 1 and 2".

  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 4,097MI6 Agent

    barbel said: Remember the "Daily Express" comic strip of Thunderball having to be rapidly concluded? Something like "And then James and Felix found the bombs. The End"


    coolhand said: Yes, I remember the TB strip being curtailed due to some form of legal action, probably instigated by McClory (though I may be wrong with that assumption).


    actually I dont think this one was McClory's fault, but was the result of Fleming having published the Living Daylights in a rival newspaper

    from the 007 magazine website

    THUNDERBALL had the unfortunate distinction of running for only nine weeks when it was stopped abruptly due to a dispute between Lord Beaverbrook [William Maxwell Aitken (1879-1964)] - who owned the Daily Express at that time - and Ian Fleming. Lord Thomson’s Sunday Times launched its colour magazine on February 4, 1962 with the Ian Fleming 007 short story THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS. Beaverbrook held newspaper rights for Ian Fleming's Bond novels, but apparently not the short stories. Although THUNDERBALL had already begun as a comic strip it was ordered to finish forthwith, and readers were astonished to find three-quarters of an extremely complicated plot dismissed in eight lines of text on the composite strip #1117 published on Saturday February 10, 1962. The notoriously mercurial Beaverbrook interpreted Fleming’s sale of his short story to The Sunday Times as disloyalty, and felt the Express should have exclusive rights to Fleming’s work, as not only were they running Bond in strip format, but had also been serialising his novels since 1956.


    sometimes I like to imagine the Thunderball comic strip could be completed by taking screenshots from the film and Never Say Never Again, at least the scenes that follow the book, then using some photoshop effects to make them look more like the comic strip. Maybe paste in Bonds head from earlier comic strips to make it look consistent. Then I realise even doing one panel like that would be a helluva lotta work

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,154MI6 Agent

    Thank you @caractacus potts case closed.



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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,154MI6 Agent

    It’s the weekend so it’s James Bond time, the first of four parts in an original story, Light Of My Death, published in Dark Horse Comics #8…




    Part Two tomorrow…

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,154MI6 Agent
    edited May 25

    Oh, yes, James will meet a face from the past…I wonder who it will be?…

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,806Chief of Staff

    For some reason the pics aren't appearing here, CHB.

  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,806Chief of Staff

    Aha, got them now on my PC (they didn't appear on my phone).

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,154MI6 Agent

    Light Of My Death - Part 2




    …next Saturday.

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,806Chief of Staff

    Well, I didn't guess that's who it would be....

  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,707Chief of Staff

    Oohh…thanks for this, CHB….I remember this coming out and I only read one instalment 🍸

    YNWA 97
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,154MI6 Agent

    @Barbel It surprised me too!

    @Sir Miles You’re welcome, glad you’re enjoying it.

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,154MI6 Agent

    FMOF also had a go at the Universal Monster series - here is The Mummy’s Hand (1940), the sequel to The Mummy (1932).



    I’m not sure that editor Forrest J Ackerman had much faith in the ability of his readership to stay the course with long adaptations, which us a pity because the artwork here is good.

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,806Chief of Staff

    Agreed, that's a very short version of what isn't a long movie to begin with. Entire subplots removed, inc Marta's dad who's one of the best things in it. Still, good artwork as you say and many thanks for posting this.

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,154MI6 Agent
    edited May 28

    WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE is a rather good 1951 science-fiction movie based on a 1933 novel (also well worth reading). This is the comic book version of the movie published in Motion Picture Comics #110 in 1952.



    To be concluded tomorrow…

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,806Chief of Staff

    It's a great SF film and that's a faithful adaptation. I would like to take your advice and read the book, too

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,154MI6 Agent

    I’m sure you will find it a good read, Barbel.

    WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE - Conclusion




    I think this is an excellent adaptation.

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,154MI6 Agent

    The Casino Royale graphic novel went down rather well so I though I would post another superb rendition of a classic story…

    Bram Stoker’s Dracula starring Bela Lugosi (2020) - Chapter One (Part 1)





    More tomorrow…

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,806Chief of Staff

    Now that is just delicious. Very much anticipating the next part. It is like a fine ..... wine.

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,154MI6 Agent

    Bram Stoker’s Dracula starring Bela Lugosi (2020) - Chapter One (Part 2)





    Dracula will continue every Thursday and Friday on this thread.

    James Bond: Light Of My Death concludes this weekend on Saturday and Sunday.

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,806Chief of Staff

    This isn't the place for a long analysis of the 1931 film so I'll just say that the above is better IMHO and that I'm impatient for the next installment.

  • The Red KindThe Red Kind EnglandPosts: 3,334MI6 Agent

    Fantastic artwork👌

    "Any of the opposition around..?"
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,154MI6 Agent

    @Barbel The best things in life are worth waiting for 😁

    @The Red Kind I agree, the artwork is exceptional.

    —————————

    James Bond - Light Of My Death - Part 3




    The final part is posted tomorrow…

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,806Chief of Staff

    Have I misunderstood, or is there a character called David Wilson above? As in, son of MGW.

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