Ian Fleming Publications Ltd. has granted a license to publish. Dynamite Entertainment has a worldwide publishing rights for a James Bond comic books, graphic novels, and digital comics series based on Ian Fleming’s novels. They also have the right to create new material which is what they apparently plan to do with the first stories covering Bond’s career pre Casino Royale. Which was hinted at in Fleming’s fist novel, this may sound strange to some newer fans however to the author Casino Royale was not Bond Begins it was the adventures of a established British intelligence agent.
We will be curious to see what they come up.
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Dynamite Announces ‘James Bond’ Comics Coming in 2015
In what might be the biggest announcement related to New York Comic Con, Dynamite Entertainment has announced a partnership with the estate of Ian Fleming that grants the publisher worldwide rights to publish comic books, graphic novels and digital comics starring the world’s most famous secret agent, James Bond, 007.In a statement accompanying the news, Dynamite Entertainment publisher Nick Barrucci called the character “one of the greatest cultural icons in the world” and the Bond movie series “one of the most successful film franchises ever, a franchise that reinvents itself to be in tune with each generation.” He said that Dynamite was “excited to build upon Fleming’s source material with new canonical stories, and … honored … to be a small part of his legacy, to be able to bring new stories to fans around the world.”
Ian Fleming Publications Ltd. managing director Corinne Turner added that her company was “thrilled that 007 will be revisiting the world of comics, as Fleming’s novels have a long and successful history in this medium, ever since they began to be published as newspaper comic strips in the late fifties,” and called Dynamite “the perfect partners to take on the challenge of continuing this legacy.”
The first Bond appearance in comics came in 1958 when the British Daily Express launched an adaptation of Casino Royale. The character’s American comic book debut came in 1963 when DC Comics reprinted a British adaptation of Dr. No in its Showcase anthology series. In later years, the character would also appear in comics published by Marvel, Dark Horse and now-defunct indie Eclipse.
The Bond deal allows Dynamite to both adapt existing Bond stories (Fleming wrote 14 Bond books during his lifetime) and create all-new material. As part of the announcement of the deal, Dynamite announced plans to create a series set prior to 1953’s Casino Royale, documenting the early years of the spy’s career, to launch in 2015.
who will illustrate them? whose looks will they use or will they go back to the literary descirption?
i twill be interesting who they come up with as an illustrator, and how they make him look.I’m sure it will be debated!
I thought Horak was fantastic