The World of Stalker

Here is the map of the world of Stalker (DC Comics)

The Known world of Claw the Unconquered

From Claw the Unconquered 1(DC Comics)

Attar the Merman

Attar the Merman was a short lived man's adventure series written by Joe Haldeman under the pseudonym of Robert Graham. The series only lasted two books, Attar's Revenge and War of Nerves both published in March of 1975.

Attar was not born a merman, he undergoes an operation to implant gills on his body. He can also communicated with dolphins, and a killer whale named Grampus raised by dolphins. Attar lives on Seahope an island off Australia with his adopted father Wallace Hamilton and his other adopted brothers and sisters. Hamilton build Seahope and his organization AREL to protect the oceans and it's life within. He adopted twelve children and trained then to become the protectors of the oceans. With the changes tide of politics he also trained them to be warriors.



1910
Wallace Hamilton is born

1924
Yoshinobu Johnson is born to a gardener and maid of a wealthy couple named Johnson. After the death of his real parents, Yoshinobu is adapted by the Johnsons. (Attar’s Revenge)

1942
Yoshinobu is sent away to California do to anti Japanese feelings in his home town. In California he forms the Lotus Gang, a group of anti-white thugs. (Attar’s Revenge)

1944
Yoshinobu is shot and paralyzed in a shoot out with MPs. Now in a wheelchair Yoshinobu changes the group’s name to the Black Lotus. He adds mystic rituals to control his followers
(Attar’s Revenge)

194?
Yoshinobu moves the Black Lotus to French Indonesia (Attar’s Revenge)

1950
Victor Hamilton is born

Lin Hamilton, Attar is born

June
Wallace Hamilton meets John Tucker and his daughter Sharon in Key West. The Tucker’s take Hamilton on their ship to give diving. Later in the month Hamilton saves Sharon from a shark. Tucker decided to start a non profit corporation, for “the prevention of unscrupulous and irresponsible exploitation of the sea; and the preservation of the balance of life there in”, with Hamilton as the director. Aquatic Research Associates Limited (ARAL), is formed

October
Hamilton finds an island in the Great Barrier Reef near Australia’s East Coast for AREL’s headquarters

1951
Tranh Hamilton, Essence is born, she is eight months younger then Attar

1952
Hamilton adopts twelve children, each of mixed race, to become the future leaders of ARAL

1955 (about)
Black Lotus headquarters are moved to Tokyo (Attar’s Revenge)

1961
AREL scientist begin researching the creation of gills for humans

1963
Attar and Essence leave the island for the first time

After three CIA agents are killed by the Black Lotus, they intact a ‘hands off’ policy when dealing with the group (Attar’s Revenge)

1970
Hamilton is the first human to undergo the operation to transplant gills on to a human. The operation is a success, but because of his advanced years his heart could not endure the strain the gills but on him. After a few months the gills stop working 8 months later

Attar and Essence undergo the operation

1971
Attar and Essence befriend the dolphins Sam and Lilly

December
Attar and Essence in Japan disrupting Black Lotus’ dolphin fishing operation (Attar’s Revenge)

1972
January (five weeks after the assignment in Japan)
Attar and Essence destroy the Black Lotus’ California outpost where the heroin is brought in from Mexico. Essence is killed causing Attar to want revenge on the Black Lotus (Attar’s Revenge)

March -5days
Attar in Mexico destroying the Black Lotus’ heroin operation (Attar’s Revenge)

Late March to Late April
Attar resting at Seahope

~ April 25 to Thursday, May 18
Attar goes on assignment to kill Johnson and other five top members of the Black Lotus (Attar’s Revenge)

Mid 1972
Victor Hamalton undergoes the gill transplant operation, but like Wallace Hamalton the gills fail after a few dives

Attar begins to communicate with Grampus, a young killer whale raised by dolphins

1973
Friday, October 19 to Friday, October 26
Attar and Victor help the CIA find a Rasputin, a madman blackmailing the US with the never gas Tabun III War of Nerves

Map of the Planet Mongo

Here we have a map of the planet Mongo, from Flash Gordon.

Map of the world of Cerebus the Aardvark

Here we have the map from the first issue of Cerebus the Aardvark, December 1977.

Chronology of James Bond, as per Jeffery Deaver

In 2010 the Ian Fleming Publications commissioned thriller author Jeffery Deaver to write a new James Bond novel. Deaver agreed to write but didn't want to do a period piece, like 2008's Devil May Care. IFP agreed that he should write a Bond set in modern times. Unlike John Gardner and Raymond Benson who continued the adventures where Fleming left off, not aging Bond, Deaver "rebooted" Bond.

On May 26 2011 Carte Blanche was released in the United Kingdom. Although it is a "reboot" the book tends to stay true to Fleming in many ways. Many of Fleming's creations make appearances, M, Bill Tanner, Moneypenny, Mary Goodnight, Felix Lighter plus he introduced quite many new characters like Ophelia Maidenstone a liaison officer and Sanu Hirani, the head of Q Branch.

I must say at first I was very weary of a "rebooted' Bond. But after reading Carte Blanch I was very unpressed.


Below I have constructed a chronology based on the book Carte Blanche. Deaver gives many hints that he is staying true to Fleming's timeline for Bond's early life. The one problem I found was when Bond joined the Royal Navel Reserves.

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November 11, 1979
James Bond is born

1990
Bond’s parents are killed while climbing
Bond is sent to live with his Aunt

1992
Bond starts Eton

1994
Bond kicked out of Eton, goes to Fettes
Bond starts a climbing club at Fettes

2005
In the wake of the 7/7 attacks the Overseas Development Group (ODG) is created

? to 2007
Bond in the Royal Naval Reserve
Bond sent to Afghanistan, attached to forward ground combat units, and some unofficial missions behind the lines. During this time he met Felix Lieter, who was a marine at the time. Before leaving Bond is becomes a Commander.

2007 to 2008
Bond in Defense Intelligence

2008
Summer
Bond joins ODG, as agent 007
Bond sent for training

2008 to 2011
Bond on various assignments against insurgents, terrorists, psychopathic criminals, amoral traitors selling nuclear secrets

2010
Bond help Found Kharaz’s son with some thugs that where bothering the boy
Bond rescued a local MI6 agent from the shoot-to-kill zone surrounding a North Korean prison

2011
Early 2011
Bond on joint ODG and DGSE operation (with Rene Mathis) rapping up Al-Qaeda and other European criminal enterprises in Europe and North Africa

Sunday, May 15 to Friday, May 20
Carte Blanche

Monday, May 23 to ?
Bond sent on assignment involving Malaysia and a Tokyo connection

0031/2: The Adventures of James Bond Junior

With the death Ian Fleming in 1964 and the release of the remaining James Bond stories; The Man with the Golden Gun in 1965 and Octopussy and the Living Daylights in 1966. Glidrose made the decision to look to other authors to continue the Bond saga.

In 1967 the world would see the first non Ian Fleming James Bond novel. But this novel did not feature agent 007, it was about his nephew James Bond junior. In face the adult Bond never makes an appearance in the book at all. R.D. Mascott is given as a pseudonym for a famous author but to this day there is debate as to who the author really is. Most people believe it to be Arthur Calder-Marshall. For more information on the book itself or Arthur Calder-Marshall check out look at this great page on Commanderbond. net 0031/2: The Adventures of James Bond Junior.

How does this fit into the Bond cannon, well it doesn’t really. Creating a logical chronology from James Bond Junior is difficult for many reasons, the most obvious being Bond’s creator Ian Fleming never mentioned him and had impeded he had not other living relative other then his aunt. This easiest way of solving this is to say 0031/2: The Adventures of James Bond Junior is apocryphal and discount it from the cannon. But for the sake of argument it was sanctioned by Gliderose, Ian Fleming’s production company, so let’s see what we can do.

We can explained why he is unknown to the cannon because David Bond is not close to his brother James. A reasonable explanation to this is to say David was born much later then James, close to the time of their parents dead. Soon after their dead James went off to Eton, so James would not have know David growing up. Another reason could be that he is kept out of the books for his own safety.

The second problem would be that it is stated that “three years before…(David)…inherited (land) from his father.” This would be very difficult seeing the Bond’s father was killed in the 1930s. But this can be explained in a similar manner that people have explained that James Bond had gotten his Bentley new in 1933. He really didn’t his father had gotten the car and it went to James upon his fathers death. Being the oldest son, most of his fathers assets went to James, including his land. In 1963 James Bond was thought to have been killed when Blofeld’s castle was destroyed in You Only Live Twice. There is even an obituary for him. Therefore David would have inherited the land from James, who inherited from his father. It is accepted that You Only Live Twice too place in 1963, therefore this would place 0031/2: The Adventures of James Bond Junior, three years later in the year 1965.

In the book, everyone knows that James Bond is 007. This may seem ridicules, but this is an invention of Ian Flemings. In the books, especially The Spy Who Loved Me, it is stated that Fleming is writing the Bond books, so it does make sense that people would know who he is. The question should be do they believe that he is real or not.

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James Bond Junior Chronology

1933
David Bond is born

1952
James Bond jr is born

1962
October 9
James Bond is missing thought to be dead after the destruction of Blofeld’s castle

Late October
David Bond inherits land from is older brother James

1964
James jr writes to his uncle James and receives a hunting knife from him

1965
July
0031/2: The Adventures of James Bond Junior

Treasure Island Map

Every now and then I will submit a map for your viewing pleasure. Those of you who are adventurous, or foolhardy, may want to travel to these far away lands and see what they hold.

Below you will find an authentic map of Treasure Island used by Long John Silver.

Chronology of AJ Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman

1863
Arthur J (AJ) Raffles is born

1867
Harry “Bunny” Mathers is born

1880
Raffles and Bunny meet it a Public School

1882
Le Premier Pas

1891

Sunday, March 15
The Ideas of March

Sunday, April 5 to Wednesday, April 8
A Costume Piece

Wednesday, May 24 to Thursday, May 25
Out of Paradise

Friday, May 26
Raffles returns to Palace Gardens to speak with Bunny’s ex fiancee

Monday, July 13 to Saturday August 15
Gentlemen and Players

Saturday August 15
Raffles tells Bunny of his first crime

Early October
Raffles and Bunny in Ireland

Mid October
Willful Murder (1day)


1892

April
The Spoils of Sacrilege

July
The Field of Philippi

Late October
Nine Points of the Law (2 days)

November
The Return Match (1 day)

1893

February
The Criminologists’ club

April (before Easter)
The Chest of Silver

Thursday, July 20
A Bad Night


1894

March
To Trap a Cracksman

Before July 10th
Raffles in Calsbad for two weeks

Tuesday, July 10 to Tuesday July 17
Mr. Justice Raffles

Tuesday, July 17 to later July
Raffles and Bunny escape to the continent Bunny returns to London would not see Raffles again until later August

August to September
The Rest Cure

1895

-Bunny hadn’t seen Raffles for a few months, moved closer to the River

Sunday, June
Bunny with Raffles on river

July Wednesday to Tuesday (week and an half)
The Emperors Gift

August 1895 to February 1897
Bunny in prison for 18 months

August 1895
Raffles on Elba a few weeks

September 1895 to March 1896
Raffles on Baize island (The Fate of Faustina)

1897

March or April
Raffles back in London posing as Mr. Maturin

Tuesday, May 11
No Sinecure

Wednesday, June 16 to Saturday, June 19
A Jubilee Present

Early August
Raffles sees an organ grinders in the street and tells Bunny The Fate of Faustina

Late September
The Last Laugh (2 days)

October
To Catch A Thief (1day)

Late October to November
An Old Flame (a few weeks)

Mr. Maturin “dies”

Bunny takes rooms on the edge of Ham Common

1898

March
The Wrong House

1899

Winter
Raffles and Bunny become obsessed with the Boor War

December
The Raffles Relics

1900

The Knees of the Gods

January
Raffles decided to enlist in the army to fight in the Boor War. Raffles dyes his hair red.

February
Raffles and Bunny sail off to South Africa

Connel leads troops in the wrong direction

Tuesday, 13 March
Bloemfontein is captured

Peter Bellingham recognizes Raffles

Raffles is killed and Bunny is wounded in the leg

Wednesday, June 27
Bunny meets his ex fiancee

Thursday, June 28
The Last Word

1908
Bunny meets Teddy at a Turkish bath and convinces him to write the story of Mr. Justice
Raffles

James Bond Annotations and Chronologies

If you're a fan of the literary James Bond of Ian Fleming's novels, there are a few reference books you should have on your shelf: O.F. Snelling's 007 James Bond: A Report, Kingsley Amis' The James Bond Dossier, and Raymond Benson's The James Bond Bedside Companion. A fourth book to add to that list is John Griswold's Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies from Ian Fleming's Bond Stories.

Griswold annotates each story explaining terms and giving translations of non-English phrases. He goes into detail on the different games Bond plays throughout the novels and even has analysis of the chess game in From Russia With Love. Griswold did a lot of research for this book.

Griswold also has a detailed chronology of each story, down to every event in the books. I myself have worked on a Bond chronology and mine was not too far off from Griswold's. There were three points I took note to, although he makes a very good case as to why he has placed these stories in the years that he has. He stops with The Man with the Golden Gun, not going over any of the "continuation novels" by other authors. In future pages of this blog I will look at those stories and see where they fit into the chronology.

The book also has articles on Bond's British Secret Service, Q of Q Branch, Bond's cars, home and guns in the stories. He also gives a very nice chronology of Bond's life and one for the life of Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

If you are planning to read any of the novels I suggest getting this book. It will explain the little details you may not get right away and it will decently translate those French quotes Fleming loved to put in his books.