Earth-J? DC and James Bond

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In January 1963, DC Comics published an adaptation of the first James Bond film, based on an earlier Ian Fleming novel, Dr. No, in its Showcase (43) new characters format. The Sean Connery era James Bond (1962-1971). This was the one and only time that DC provided a forum for the adventures of the intrepid MI6 agent- Marvel, Dark Horse, Eclipse and Dynamite Entertainment all serialised various subsequent Bond movies, but while they were involved with publishing the Dr No tie in, Bond wasn't seen interacting with any of DC's more orthodox superhero properties, which seems to suggest that Dr No might occur on a specific non-metahuman world in the DC multiverse, Earth-J.  If Earth-J exists, it has a slight technological edge on our world, given the existence of nuclear proliferation, SPECTRE's tactical nuclear capability and a space station later in Bond continuity.  Its datum point would be 1962/3 and James Bond would be an analogue to Sean Connery. Which raises some questions about what happened next on Earth-J... DC let the property lapse in the seventies after Sean Connery handed over to George Lazenby and then Roger Moore. 

In Dr No, MI6 loses its station chief in Jamaica, Strangways, so Bond is dispatched to the Carribean. He makes the acquaintance of diver Honey Ryder and fisher Quarrel, and tracks down the assassin to the lair of Dr No, a reclusive mad scientist who is plotting to sabotage the launch of one of NASA's Mercury series spacecraft.  (In subsequent Bond continuity, Gemini series spacecraft and a space shuttle were also seen, so its space programme seems to match ours.)


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