 Casino Royale was the first James Bond novel to be adapted as a daily comic strip ; it was published in The Daily Express and syndicated worldwide . The strip ran from 7 July 1958 to 13 December 1958 , and was written by Anthony Hern and illustrated by John McLusky . To aid The Daily Express in illustrating Bond , Fleming commissioned an artist to create a sketch of what he believed James Bond to look like . McLusky felt that Fleming 's 007 looked too " outdated " and " pre @-@ war " and changed Bond to give him a more masculine look . 
