Titan Books James Bond: Casino Royale

i always like james bond comics books in tamil and english. but this book was a good one for my personal collection. good graphic novel.

As i have written for Goldfinger, this one is no different. As mentioned in another review here; a great companion to the novel. i have started collecting the entire series.

This delightful volume was released fifth by Titan Books in their James Bond series.I mention this because after the Roger Moore introduction there is a non fiction section called "Bond In Books" and it is part 5.So those intent on collecting the series may wish to start with "The Man With The Golden Gun" volume which was the first released by Titan.This volume collects the newspaper strips of "Casino Royale", "Live And Let Die" and "Moonraker".Whilst they are condensed versions of the original books (condensed to remove any graphic detail that could have been read by children) there are good representations of the books.The artwork is pretty good not forgetting that the strips were originally published in the late 1950's.You can buy omnibuses of the collection from Titan would collect together 3 of the volumes but they are printed on smaller paper and some of the precise ink work on the strips is lost.

Contains Casino Royale, Moonraker and Live and Let Die amongst its covers, the stories follow the Ian Fleming books closely, so the plots are good, but the cartoon strips aren't as good as some of the other books in the series.

I was simply looking for a used paperbook version of Casino Royale. Yes, it was paperback but not a text version book. Instead, it was a comic strip version of the novel. Never even knew they existed. Had to return it since nothing about this was in the description and I didn't want a comic strip version. Maybe by excluding information sellers are hoping people will buy and simply not be bothered to return.