Editing Colonel Sun (section)

==Adaptations==
{{main|James Bond comic strips}}
''Colonel Sun'' was serialised on a daily basis in the ''[[Daily Express]]'' from 18 March 1968{{sfn|Markham|1968a|p=5}} to 30 March 1968.{{sfn|Markham|1968b|p=14}} The novel is the only non-Fleming Bond work adapted as a [[comic strip]] by the ''Daily Express''. It was written by [[James Duncan Lawrence (author)|Jim Lawrence]], drawn by [[Yaroslav Horak]] and published from 1 December 1969 to 20 August 1970; it was subsequently syndicated worldwide.{{sfn|Fleming|Gammidge|McLusky|1988|p=6}} In December 2005 [[Titan Books]] reprinted ''Colonel Sun'' and included ''River of Death'', another original James Bond comic strip story published before the ''Colonel Sun'' strip in 1969.{{sfn|"Titan Books – James Bond – Colonel Sun". Titan Books}} Titan reissued the strip again in ''The James Bond Omnibus Vol. 003'', published in 2012.{{sfn|Lawrence|Fleming|Horak|2012|p=101}}

Elements of ''Colonel Sun'' have been used in the [[List of James Bond films|series of Bond films]] by [[Eon Productions]]: the kidnapping of M was used as a plot device in the 1999 film ''[[The World Is Not Enough]]'';{{sfn|Chapman|2007|p=231}} for the 2002 film ''[[Die Another Day]]'', Eon wanted to use the name Colonel Sun Liang-tan for the main villain, but when the Fleming estate insisted on royalties for its use, Eon changed the name to [[Gustav Graves|Colonel Tan-Sun Moon]];{{sfn|Britton|2005|p=238}} and a scene in ''Colonel Sun'' also inspired an element of the 2015 film ''[[Spectre (2015 film)|Spectre]]''.{{sfn|"Kingsley Amis's Colonel Sun Inspires a Scene in Spectre". Ian Fleming Publications}}