However, evidence seen in Bond’s habits, traits, preferences, vices, and even his physical description suggest the character was most heavily based on Ian Fleming himself. Fleming drew his inspiration from a variety of sources, including a number of soldiers whom he worked with during World War II. Formerly a Commander in the Royal Navy, Bond first appeared in Ian Fleming’s 1953 novel Casino Royale. Secret agent James Bond, code number 007 with a license to kill, is a British spy and assassin for MI6. Ian Fleming’s commissioned drawing of James Bond Ian Fleming, The New Yorker, 21 April 1962 “ When I wrote the first one in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened I wanted him to be a blunt instrument … when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, is the dullest name I ever heard.
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