Entertainment Weekly 11/2/12

Entertainment Weekly # 1231, November 2, 2012, originally priced at $4.99.

This issue is dated a week before the U.S. theatrical release of Skyfall.  The cover features Daniel Craig in his Skyfall midnight blue tuxedo, with Bérénice Marlohe (Sévérine) and Naomine Harris (Moneypenny) at his sides. This pose is right out of a generic Bond poster from the Brosnan years.  Thankfully the Craig posters have eschewed this look, which has been relegated to magazine covers, where it's perfectly satisfactory.  I wouldn't expect anything more out of Entertainment Weekly.  

(p. 2, advertisement for Bond fragrance, which we will cover if anyone donates it to the museum)

(pp. 28-35, cover story)

(p. 43. advertisement for 50 Years of James Bond by Life Books, which we will cover soon because it's already been donated to the museum)

Dr No 9th Coronet Paperback Printing

Dr No, Ian Fleming, 9th Coronet paperback printing, U.K., originally priced at £5.99 (UK) and $14.95 (Australia).

From the copyright page we can tell this book was not printed before 1989.  Since this is the 9th printing from this publisher, and we purchased it at Borders in the late 90's, it was probably printed in the mid-to-late 90's.  Question: why was a Borders in the United States selling a printing from the United Kingdom?  Borders is no longer around to answer.

Many Dr No covers understandably depict Honey Rider in some form or another.  This cover emphasizes her strength rather than her sex appeal, her bravery rather than her body.  All we see of her is one of her bronzed hands (which inexplicably has painted nails), tightly grasped around her gleaming hunting knife.