James Bond: Trouble Spot

James Bond: Trouble Spot is a collection of James Bond comic strips published in the Daily Express in the 1970s.



Plot
The legend continues! Stand by for more adventures with the world's greatest secret agent, as some of his most thrilling missions are collected for the first time ever!

In Trouble Spot, first published in the Daily Express in 1971, James Bond has to track down a "box", and his best lead is Mike Channing's blind wife. 007 has no option but to assume the identity of the now dead Channing and try to convince his widow to lead him to the mysterious box, before a brutal Russian commissar known as Sharkface beats him to it. This new, never-before-collected edition also collects "Isle of Condors", "The League of Vampires" and "Die With My Boots On". Plus a new introduction by Martine Beswicke and exclusive feature material!

Isle Of Condors
James Bond is sent to Italy on the trail of a dead Belgian woman (Ghislaine Perault) who was stealing confidential memos from her Foreign Office lover. After meeting a naked horse rider (Thyrza Holt) who claims to have been imprisoned, 007 returns her to the Gallew's who then drug him and discover an ivory pendant of the dead Belgian. The Gallew's are spooked by the coincidence of Bond's arrival and leave for the 'Isle of Condors' and its leader (Signor Uccelli), who feeds them to his birds as punishment. Bond awakes to Crystal Kelly, a private investigator rummaging through his belongings, looking for clues to the whereabouts of the horse rider. The pair are attacked by one of Uccelli's goons (Rafaele Barbaro), but Bond kills him and they escape to the island. Bond goes under the guise of Mark Hazard, how has swam to the island after his boat sunk. 007 uncovers Uccelli's training school for female spies, who carry out their missions before being fed to the condors - as happened to Ghislaine. Thyrza is found by Bond, but they are captured and are to be fed to the birds by Uccelli. Crystal arrives just in time, and in the proceeding fight, Bond sprays Uccelli with his own bird homing scent. Bond throws Uccelli a gun so he can shoot himself before the birds kill him.