Ever since Dr No in 1962, James Bond’s fingerprints have been all over the action genre like it was a modified Walther PPK. In the subsequent 50 years, nearly every hero that’s followed in his footsteps – some obviously, some less so – has owed something to MI6’s top agent, and so we've decided to round up a few of the top debtors. It’s 007’s world, and all these other guys just live in it. Maybe he should charge rent.
Our Man Flint (1966)
Before there was Austin Powers and Johnny bastard English, there was Derek Flint: lover, fighter, man-about-town and ZOWIE (Zonal Organization for World Intelligence and Espionage) agent extraordinaire. When an evil organization of mad scientists start tinkering with natural disasters, Flint is hauled out of his space-age batchelor lifestyle and back into the field, armed with his trusty lighter (“This has 82 different functions, 83 is you wish to light a cigar”) and James Coburn’s pure Old Spice charisma.
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