The James Bond Omnibus 003

I had some of the Dynamite comic reprints of James Bond and wanted to get the complete set of the UK based newspaper comic series before they might be unavailable due to current events. This book is one is a series of sequential reprints (some different and some duplicative of my Dynamite books) that collectively is a more holistic set. They were affordably priced in totality compared with other potential options for achieving the same BUT with one caveat. In order to jam all these comics in this oversized thicker flexible softcover book, the images and word font of the comics is reduced rather than enlarged like the Dynamite books. Unless you are strongly near-sighted, you may find the contents of these books too small to comfortably read even with reading glasses under a strong light. As opposed to going "all in" and buying everything at once, I'd suggest buying one volume and see what I mean so you can determine if it is reasonably readable by you before buying the rest of the set. I ended up keeping them anyway (even though they are very tough to read for me) because my other options were almost triple the price to obtain something equivalent to this "everything in one set of books."

I was very very skeptical of buying this as I didn't know how the writers handled Fleming's spy in the heyday of the Connery phenomenon. My fear was that these stories would be rife with cheesy characters, world domination plots and gadgetry. Luckily these guys hadn't heard of or thought about an invisible car and these stories remind me of Queen and Country. Realism runs all through these stories. The plots are realistic and Bond actually experiences fear and loss when someone he cares about is killed. He's actually stabbed and makes mistakes, closer to Fleming's flawed blunt instrument than Moore's cartoon portrayal.Surprisingly the three-panel black and white structure does not distract and actually makes the reading and continuity better.I do wish there was more behind the scenes stuff like maybe an essay by one of the Bond actors or subsequent authors. Otherwise a great buy.

Well we started with Dick Tracy comic books in newspapers and finally Bond has arrived just in time as we celebrate 50 years of the release of the first James Bond movie Dr No in September 2012. The book is the third volume as the first two had comics of the orginal movies where this one in volume 3 are all new stories and is well written with suspense in each page. Please order it and then check out volume 1 and volume 2 as well. Bond! James Bond!

I purchased 4 of these 007 Omnibus collections for Christmas. I remember seeing many of these cartoon strips in the 1980s. I have not had a chance to read the entire volume. I can't wait to get into it. I recommend this to any 007 fan. They have the feel of the Ian Fleming novels.

I found that the omnibus captured the spirit of Ian Fleming's masterpieces...It is the way he wanted to see plot play out; before the movie studios went nuts....It is true, gritty & most importantly an enjoyble read that will make you want to turn the pages over, without the regard for time...I was up till 4am absorbing ...Bond....James Bond....

I bought this as a Christmas gift for a fellow Bond fan. I'd never read the English cartoons before. I quite enjoyed the artwork and the stories. I really enjoyed Colonel Sun-my favorite non Fleming book.

Excellent

I enjoyed this volume very much, and read every chapter within its pages and never stopped browsing through - wow!!

Having done a superb job in bringing all the original Ian Fleming stories to comic strip format, this series of Omnibus editions moves smoothly towards new horizons with a volume of stories specially written for the medium and an excellent adaptation of Kingsley Amis's Bond novel 'Colonel Sun' with it's tastefully handled but ultimately chilling torture scene featuring an assault on our hero's inner ear with a skewer ( it was MUCH more graphically described in the book!!!). Horak, the artist, really gets into his stride now and the writing is still Flemingesque.

Continues the series of newspaper strips and if they lack that quirkiness that Fleming brought to the character the artist Horak maintains his sperb skill in his depiction. Good production though the strip panels do suffer from this amount of reduction and they, if printed on better quality paper, would have looked and 'read' so much better. Even so, for true fans recommended.

Thoroughly enjoyed this collection of straightforward espionage cum action tales, lavishly and lovingly illustrated by Horak.Apart from the leggy beauties, the high-point (no pun intended) of these strips would be wit and brevity.My favourites were 'The Harpies' and 'Starfire'.Recommended.

These stories might from 60, 70, 80s but amazing..impressive with creativity producing comic version is a challenge but accomplished extremely well.

i always like james bond comics books in tamil and english. but this book was a good one for my personal collection. good graphic novel.