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COLLECTING 007 – UK Souvenir Brochures & magazines
WRITTEN & COMPILED BY KEVIN HARPER

The first official James Bond related brochure was published in 1964 and featured stills from the first three films, Dr. No, From Russia With Love and Goldfinger. James Bond In Focus was a glossy 64-page souvenir brochure and featured in the Goldfinger Exhibitors’ Campaign Book as one of many marketing tie-ins to the new James Bond film. The same brochure was published in the USA by Dell under the title Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 portrayed by Sean Connery but had a different front and inside front cover, although the rest of the content was identical [see ROLLOVER image below]. Thunderball had two souvenir brochures to accompany its record-breaking general release in 1966. The CORGI publication James Bond In The Incredible World Of Thunderball could be purchased in newsagents and high street stores such as W. H. Smith; whilst James Bond In Thunderball was available exclusively in ODEON cinemas. Some later films in the series also had an official souvenir brochure or poster magazine available to purchase in cinemas during the original release of film. Souvenir brochures were not produced for every title and usually reserved for ‘Epics’ or ‘Roadshow’ releases of major films in the Fifties and Sixties. The brochures usually contained details of the stars appearing in the films, technical credits, stills and a synopsis of the film together with historical data if appropriate.

The publication of brochures and magazines dedicated to one film stopped at the end of the last century, and nowadays the James Bond films are promoted with features in all manner of physical publications and online platforms in the lead up to, and during their release. The sheer number of magazines, websites and social media platforms covering the James Bond films nowadays makes it impossible to compile a definitive list of everything available for any given titles since the start of the new millennium.

JAMES BOND BOND IN FOCUS JAMES BOND IN THE INCREDIBLE WORLD OF THUNDERBALL JAMES BOND IN THUNDERBALL
JAMES BOND BOND IN FOCUS
64-pages
E. Maxwell-Arnot ltd./Purnell & Sons 1964
Priced at 3/6
JAMES BOND IN THE INCREDIBLE
WORLD OF THUNDERBALL
CORGI Books
1965 64-pages
Priced at 3/6
JAMES BOND IN THUNDERBALL
Transworld Publishers Ltd. 1965
36-pages
Priced at
5/-
Diamonds Are Forever Official souvenir brochure Live And Let Die Official souvenir brochure

The Man With The Golden Gun Official souvenir brochure and poster

Diamonds Are Forever
Official souvenir brochure
26-pages
Sackville Publishing 1971
Live And Let Die
Official souvenir brochure
24-pages
Sackville Publishing 1973
The Man With The Golden Gun
Official film poster magazine
8-pages (folded)
Sackville Publishing 1974

Moonraker Official souvenir brochure

For Your Eyes Only Official souvenir brochure

For Your Eyes Only Official poster magazine

Moonraker
Official souvenir brochure
20-pages
Fenited Publishing Corp. 1979
For Your Eyes Only
Official souvenir brochure
16-pages
Phoenix Publications Ltd. 1981
For Your Eyes Only
Official film poster magazine
8-pages (folded)
Phoenix Publications Ltd. 1981

For Your Eyes Only James Bond Magazine Special

Octopussy Official souvenir brochure

A View To A Kill Official Movie Magazine

For Your Eyes Only
Official Comic Adaptation
36-pages
Marvel Comics 1981
Octopussy
Official souvenir brochure
24-pages
Movie Publishing Ltd. 1983
A View To A Kill
Official Movie Magazine
68-pages
W.H. Allen 1983

Licence To Kill Official souvenir brochure

Licence To Kill Official Comic book

Licence To Kill
Official souvenir brochure
14-pages [Landscape format]
Hexam & Grindley Ltd. 1989
Licence To Kill
Official Comic Book
Adaptation 46-pages
Adapted by Mike Grell
Acme Press Ltd. 1989

GoldenEye Official Souvenir Magazine

Tomorrow Never Dies Official souvenir magazine

The World Is Not Enough Official souvenir magazine

GoldenEye
Official souvenir magazine
68-pages
Titan Magazines 1995
Tomorrow Never Dies
Official souvenir magazine
66-pages
Titan Magazines 1997
The World Is Not Enough
Official souvenir magazine
68-pages
Starlog Magazines 1999

In addition to Hexam & Grindley’s Licence To Kill Official souvenir brochure available in cinemas across the UK, 007 MAGAZINE Editor & Publisher Graham Rye negotiated the tacit approval of EON Productions to have Issue #20 retail via the Newstrade to W. H. Smith and John Menzies; and via The National Screen Service to the ODEON and Cannon cinema chains in the UK.

007 Issue #20 Summer 1989
48-pages [A4-size] priced at £2.50

• Letter from the President, Graham Rye.
• 007 in Print
• The Bond Villains: Doctor No
• Pictorial: Licence To Kill
Charles Dance as Ian Fleming in Goldeneye
Timothy Dalton in Licence To Kill centrefold
• A look at Felix Leiter by Kevin Harper
• Members Forum
• Fold-out Licence To Kill poster

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