{"id":674011,"date":"2025-06-07T20:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T17:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-to-make-a-killing-in-the-james-bond-market\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T20:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T17:20:23","slug":"how-to-make-a-killing-in-the-james-bond-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-to-make-a-killing-in-the-james-bond-market\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make a Killing in the (James) Bond Market"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tWe haven\u2019t checked lately, but we\u2019re guessing Jeff Bezos and Lauren S\u00e1nchez didn\u2019t register at Bed Bath & Beyond. Luckily, though, we\u2019ve stumbled on the perfect wedding gift \u2014 at least for the groom, who not only now owns the 007 franchise but also app<\/a>ears to be taking styling cues from Ernst Stavro Blofeld. For a mere $77,000, you can surprise the happy couple with a rare set of original, ink-drawn panels from the long-forgotten but quietly influential James Bond news<\/a>paper comic strip<\/a>, which debuted in the British press in 1958 \u2014 four years before the tuxedoed superspy ever stepped onto a soundstage.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy father had to come up with what James Bond looked like,\u201d says Sean McLusky, son of the late illustrator John McLusky, who\u2019s now selling his father\u2019s artwork through the London-based A Gallery. \u201cThere were descriptions of Bond in Ian Fleming\u2019s books, but no cover drawings or anything like that. He had no face. James Bond was not visible to the public. My father had to invent his face.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tStrictly speaking, that\u2019s not entirely true. CBS viewers got an early peek at one version of Bond in 1954, when the network aired a live, hourlong adaptation of Casino Royale<\/em>. But Barry Nelson \u2014 the clean-cut actor cast as \u201cJimmy\u201d Bond in that heavily Americanized production \u2014 bore about as much resemblance to 007 as Howdy Doody. The secret agent John McLusky began drawing for The Daily Express<\/em> a few years later, on the other hand, looked exactly how the world would soon come to picture James Bond: ruggedly handsome and athletic, with the cool, steely gaze of a killer. In fact, McLusky\u2019s version looked a lot like Sean Connery.<\/p>\n

\n\tMcLusky\u2019s son suspects that\u2019s no coincidence. \u201cMy father was friends with Sean Connery\u2019s agent,\u201d he explains. \u201cAnd the agent told Connery to try out for the part in Dr. No<\/em>, since he looked like the Bond in the comic strip.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tSean Connery became the face of 007 for millions through films like Dr. No and Goldfinger.<\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy Everett Collection<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tIn fact, McLusky suspects much of that first Bond film owes a debt to his dad. \u201cI met with the archivist from EON Productions\u201d \u2014 the longtime Bond producers, before Amazon acquired the franchise \u2014 \u201cand I asked to see a storyboard for Dr. No<\/em>,\u201d he recalls. \u201cShe told me there were no storyboards for that film. That\u2019s when I realized they must\u2019ve used my dad\u2019s drawings. You can match scenes from his panels to the camera angles in\u00a0the\u00a0movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAgain, technically speaking, not quite. While McLusky\u2019s art and the early Bond films do share a certain joie de Bond \u2014 a crisp, stylish bravado and, yes, even a DB5 zooming across the page \u2014 the comic strips were faithful, serialized adaptations of the novels, sticking more closely to Fleming\u2019s original plotlines than the films ever did. Which, come to think of it, might make them especially intriguing to a certain bald billionaire with a penchant for rockets and reboots. These unofficial storyboards could offer a stripped-down, cinematic blueprint for a new Bond, a sketchbook for whatever 007 looks like next.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut act fast. Since A Gallery began selling the McLusky archive \u2014 prices start at $1,800 for a single panel, $77,000 for a curated dozen or $1.9 million for the entire remaining collection \u2014 they\u2019ve been flying off the shelves. A few were scooped up by an unnamed film director, others by a Hollywood mogul, and McLusky recently donated a set of 12 to the Academy Library. Only 836 panels remain.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis story appeared in the June 4 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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