The name’s Bond -- Miss Bond. Mum’s Own Annual (Fleetway Publications Ltd, 1993, pp23), in its whirlwind tour of girls comics of the fifties to the seventies, notes that Tina’s lead story was “Jane Bond”, an “international secret agent who looked like Jane from the Daily Mirror minus her stockings and suspender belt”. The reason for that was, of course, that they were both illustrated by the same person, Mike Hubbard, who drew Jane for the Daily Mirror from 1952 for about a decade and drew Jane Bond for Tina and Princess Tina between 1967 and 1970. Jane was obviously cheesecake but Jane Bond was not. Unlike Jane, the Jane Bond plots weren’t there just so that the heroine would get her kit off (well, the story when Jane Bond went to Brazil to investigate what a dastardly army of beautiful women were up to in the Jungle and she ended up being staked to the ground -- well, that’s a Daily Mirror Jane story waiting to happen, that). Armed with suitable James Bond-style gadgetry--lipstick radios, explosive necklaces--Jane Bond tackled criminal masterminds with no-nonsense pluck and a fabulous wardrobe. The Irish Comics Wiki describes Hubbard as “an excellent draughtsman and excelled at the figure, particularly the female figure, and his colour work was both vivid and sensitive. He also excelled as a portrait painter, and was an expert in the history of architecture.” http://irishcomics.wikia.com/wiki/Mike_Hubbard_%281902-1976%29
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