In 1966 Yaroslav Horak replaced John McLusky as the artist for the Daily Express comic strip series and adapted six more Ian Fleming James Bond novels and short stories as well as Kingsley Amis' Colonel Sun with partner Jim Lawrence. Yaroslav Horak's rendition of James Bond. Beaverbrook and Fleming later settled their differences, and the comic strip serial would continue in 1964 with On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Additional panels were added later for its syndication to other newspapers, and to expand and conclude the story. The dispute abruptly ended the comic strip adaptation of Thunderball. Fleming had sold the rights to the Sunday Times, a rival newspaper - upsetting Beaverbrook into terminating his business relationship with Fleming. In 1962 the Daily Express abruptly cancelled their agreement with Ian Fleming when Lord Beaverbrook and Fleming disputed the rights to the James Bond short story " The Living Daylights". The author would see this happening, and disgust with the operation might creep in. A tendency to write still further down might result. Unless the standard of these books is maintained they will lose their point, and, I think, there I am in grave danger that inflation will spoil not only the readership, but also become something of a death-watch beetle inside the author. I have grave doubts about the desirability of this. The Express are desperately anxious to turn James Bond into a strip cartoon.
Fleming was then reluctant, because he felt the comic strips would lack the quality of his writing, potentially hurting his spy novel series while he was still writing. In 1957, the Daily Express, a newspaper owned by Lord Beaverbrook, approached Ian Fleming about adapting his James Bond stories as comic strips. Publication history Daily Express strips James Bond Starting in 1958 and continuing to 1983, it consisted of 52 story arcs that were syndicated in British newspapers, seven of which were initially published abroad. James Bond was a comic strip that was based on the eponymous, fictional character created by author Ian Fleming.
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