THE SPY WHO GLUBBED ME

THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1977)
dir: Lewis Gilbert

MAD #199, June 1978
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker

In the prologue, James Bond (Roger Moore) is called away from his latest affair in Austria, and outsmarts Russian agents pursuing him skiing his way to England by shooting them with a gun that's one of his skis. In Russia, Anya Amasova a/k/a XXX (Barbara Bach) is given an assignment to search for the plans about the missing submarines we saw on the first page, and also given the bad news that her lover was killed on a mission in Austria. Bond is given the assignment in Britain to search for those submarines, studying its route.

A rich businessman,.Karl Stromberg (Curt Jürgens), meets with two scientists about a submarine tracking device, thanks them from presenting it to him, and feeds is secretary to a shark in his underwater city to show what will happen if they betray him, then blows them up in the helicopter they leave in so he won't have to pay them. Then he sends his henchman Jaws (Richard Kiel) to find anyone else who may have the microfilm for his submarine tracking system. James Bond is in Egypt in search of the microfilm, where Fekkesh and Max Kalba are his leads. There he meets XXX, competing for the same assignment on behalf of Russia.

Neither are able to obtain the microfilm, and both escape Jaws. Bond and XXX's superiors, M (Bernard Lee) and Gogol (Walter Gotell) have them team up for the assignment for the good of both countries. They realize Stromberg is responsible for the missing submarine and take a train to his hideout in Sardinia, where they are pursued by Jaws. It looks like he will overpower them until Bond electrocutes Jaws through his metal teeth and throws him off the train.

Bond and XXX meet Stromberg in his underwater city posing as a married couple, he pretending to be a marine biologist wanting to build an underwater city of his own. They leave and Stromberg knows who they really are, sending Jaws after them again. Bond realizes he's being followed and escapes by driving underwater in his sportscar, which doubles as a small submarine. Later XXX finds out the boyfriend she lost was the Russian agent we saw in Austria, killed by Bond, and when they finish the assignment, she will kill him.

Bond and Amasova board an American submarine, USS Wayne, to examine the Liparus, a ship they discovered a model of earlier when poking around Stromberg's Atlantis headquarters, but the submarine is captured by the tanker, which is revealed to be a floating submarine dock. Stromberg sets his plan in motion: the simultaneous launching of nuclear missiles from the captured British and Soviet submarines to obliterate Moscow and New York City. This would trigger a global nuclear war, which Stromberg would survive in Atlantis, and subsequently a new civilization would be established underwater. He leaves for Atlantis with Amasova/XXX, but Bond escapes and frees the captured British, Russian and American sailors.

Wayne is ordered by the Pentagon to destroy Atlantis but Bond insists on rescuing Amasova first. He confronts and kills Stromberg but again encounters Jaws, whom he picks up by his teeth with a magnetic device, which he turns off when Jaws is over a shark tank, dropping him in. However, Jaws kills the shark and escapes. Bond and Amasova flee in an escape pod. Amasova picks up Bond's gun and points it at him, but changes her mind and they do it. The Royal Navy recovers the pod and the two spies are seen through its port window, to the astonishment of their superiors on the ship.

THE SPY WHO SNUBBED ME
Cracked #148, January 1978
a: O. O. Severin (John Severin)

This was the cover for the German humor magazine Kaputt:

THE SPY WHO SNUBBED ME
Sick #120, April 1978
w & a: Dave Manak