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Dark Horse Comics #25, pg.20 James Bond

Artist: Russ Heath (All)

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Title:	Dark Horse Comics #25, pg.20 James Bond
Artist:	Russ Heath (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,725
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	12/18/2018
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James Bond 007: Minute of Midnight

Plot:
James Bond is sent to Washington DC to spy on a meeting held by a terrorist organization led by a man called Lexis, who plans to hold the world ransom by threatening the globe with sabotaging nuclear power plants, an operation he codenamed "Miasma". After eavesdropping the conversation, Bond delivers the recorded tape to a man called Sykes who works for the CIA, having asked for Agent 007 especially from the British Intelligence due to the man they are after, Lexis, being a British citizen. Sykes also asks Bond to deliver the document and the tape personally back to London in a briefcase, which the former claims to be more secure than transporting it through cryptography.

The next day at an airport in Maryland, Bond meets with a contact named Robert Nagell, who will be his CIA escort from the US soil all the way to Britain. Once they are on board as the plane takes off heading to Lakenheath Airfield, Nagell surprises Bond with a gas leaking grenade and distracts the whole airplane out of its normal measures, revealing himself as a double agent who is after the briefcase Bond is handcuffed to. They struggle in a fistfight while the plane is going out of balance in the air, Nagell realizes he failed for the time being when 007 proves to have gained the upper hand, he steals a parachute and leaps out of the aircraft. Bond jumps after Nagell and the struggle ensues once more, he strips the assailant from the parachute and allows him fall to his death. As the plane was still out of balance, Bond finds the convenience to lead the parachute on top of the flying vehicle, enters and clears the containment from the gas, taking control of the aircraft, and following the routine as planned.

Upon his arrival at Lakenheath Airfield, Bond is made to rendezvous with Nigel Redditch, who is introduced as a desk hound working for Bill Tanner, the Chief of Staff in the British Intelligence. Redditch takes the briefcase as ordered and delivers a message to 007 from "M" to assassinate Lexis since the CIA was unable to take care of it and given that the target was already in England. At night, Bond locates Lexis at his own estate outside London, and assassinates him from afar with a sniper rifle. Even though, he convinced himself to act like a professional, the scream of Lexis' daughter and her tears over her father's corpse haunts him as he watches her through the scope.

Tanner is now in charge of the British Intelligence since "M" was away due to a diplomatic status, attending a summit conference in France, he personally sends a message to 007 through Tanner, giving him a week off. Bond, still disturbed by the image he created the night earlier, accepts the vacation and departs. Meanwhile, it is revealed that Sykes and Redditch are part of Lexis' organization as they substitute the real briefcase with a false one on its delivery as well as scheme the abduction of "M".

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John Espinoza
Member Since 2014

Posted on 12/19/2018

Cool to see Russ Heath’s style of action and panels in a Bond sequence.

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