Licence to Kill

    (Eclipse, 1989)
™ and © 1989 Danjaq S.A. and United Artists Company

Licence to Kill (with that distinctive British spelling) was the second James Bond movie to star Timothy Dalton, who kept the franchise going until Pierce Brosnan was available. This episode finds Ian Fleming’s top British agent on a personal crusade to bring down Franz Sanchez, a drug lord who was responsible for the mutilation of a friend, and the death of that friend’s wife. But the British Secret Service has no official interest in Sanchez and demands that Bond let the Americans deal with him. Bond abruptly resigns so M, his director, just as abruptly revokes his famous “licence to kill.” Apparently this license is merely a formality since Bond is not the least bit inhibited by its revocation.

Mike Grell (James Bond 007: Permission to Die) did the breakdowns for this adaptation but a trio of artists finished the pencilling.

— George Haberberger
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