His final two books- The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) and Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)-were published posthumously. Fleming wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. He is the protagonist of the James Bond series of novels, films, comics and video games. Ian Fleming's image of James Bond commissioned to aid the Daily Express comic strip artistsĬommander James Bond CMG RNVR is a character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953.