Licence to Kill

Licence to Kill, a one-issue comic from Eclipse in 1989, adapts the James Bond film of the same name. Scripted by Richard Ashford with art from Chuck Austen, Mike Grell, and Stan Woch, it captures the gritty, personal vendetta that defines Timothy Dalton’s second outing as 007. A concise snapshot of late-’80s Bond in comics form, it matters as a faithful, licensed tie-in from an era when Eclipse brought a range of genre adaptations to the direct market.