Nurse (no name revealed in the comic, she was referred only as "black nurse" and "the girl") appeared in episode "Sea Dragon" (1977) of James Bond comic strip, written by Jim Lawrence, art by Yaroslav Horak.
We are introduced to her
Nurse is a henchgirl of Magda Mather, president of ostensibly women-lib organisation „She Unlimited“, but in reality evil businesswoman who are setting up murders of several businessmen with an aim to buy their shares in a big oil company.
Story[]
At the beginning of a story Bond survived an explosion of Sir Ivor Morlock's yacht after topless scuba girl planted time bomb on it. He is treated at the hospital in Nassau, Bahamas. We are introduced to nurse when she enters his hospital room at the end of visit by M and Moneypenny. She gave him sedative shot, teasing him that Moneypenny's kiss raised his temperature. After Bond fell asleep, an armed attacker entered through the window and tried to kill him, but was overpowered by Bond. Hearing commotion, nurse entered the room and she was surprised to see Bond inspecting the unconscious attacker on the floor.
After an unspecified time she entered Bond's room and seemed disappointed to find that he is about to leave hospital (we are led to believe by her repeated remarks that she is growing to like him). He invited her on a date that evening and gave her a little book to write down her address, presumably for him to pick her up.
She is flirting with him
Later that day nurse returned from work, and she was astonished to find Bond sitting in her apartment watching TV, with the glass and the bottle of unspecified liquor on the table by his side. When she said she didn't expect him that early, he bluntly admitted that he entered using a picklock. As she undressed herself in front of the mirror and with her back to Bond, he started to interrogate her about attacker's apparent knowledge of his location in hospital and the fact that she gave him the sedative just prior the attack (insinuating that she did it deliberately to reduce his awareness and reactions, making him an easy prey).
He further said that he had to check his suspicions, so he elicited her address on a pretence of a date, just to get to her apartment before her and search it for some evidence of her involvement in the hospital attack. At that point he pulled from the big flower vase small figure that represents fertility goddess (later we will learn that figure represents Magna Mater-Earth Mother or Great Mother). She was obviously disturbed by his discovery and became evasive (at this point she is dressed only in skimpy underwear but still has a big chained bracelets on her wrists she was wearing when she entered apartment). Realising he is not falling for her lies and seductive tricks and, worse yet, that he started to loose his patience with her, she opened the drawer on her dresser and pulled out a gun. She pointed a gun at him and ordered him to get his hands up. Instead, he lifted his left hand with the figure in it to distract her, while at the same time grabbed the liquor bottle from the table behind his back and threw it at her. Distracted and frightened by his quick actions, she fired gun ineffectively, missing him and only managed to smash the TV screen. Bottle strikes her in the temple and knocked her unconscious but he grabbed her right forearm, preventing her from falling to the floor. He then threw her over his shoulder and, as her body flied through the air, her right arm with heavy chain bracelet hit the smashed TV screen and she was electrocuted in the process.
Not the kind of date she expected
Back in England, Bond learned from M that Bahamian police reported that nurse knew the attacker, and Bond revealed that finding the figure confirmed his suspicion, because he saw it tattooed on the tight of scuba girl before Sir Ivor's yacht exploded thus connecting nurse with Sir Ivor's assassin. Figure later led Bond to the main villainess, Magda Mather.
Appearance[]
Attractive black woman, probably in her early-to mid 20s. She is sporting big afro and off-duty wears grotesquely big bracelets, with long chains hanging freely. During apartment scene she wears only bra and panties and we have good look at her curvy, slender body. Uncharacteristically for women in Horak's Bond comics, she never revealed her breasts (knowing Horak's work, I can feel he was tempted to remove her bra, but decided to save her a bit of dignity during her already humiliating death).
Weapons[]
A handgun. Sedative injection.
Character[]
At first she appeared as happy-go-lucky, friendly, slightly flirty young woman. But later, after her role in attempt on Bond's life is discovered, it
became obvious that she had other "qualities", such as:
She is getting angry
Look at that bracelet!
- ruthlessness: she is quick to set aside her duty as a medical professional who is supposed to help people in favour of setting up a murder
Bond strikes back!
of Bond who is her patient (certainly on Miss Mather's order, but that hardly counts as mitigating factor). But unlike Scuba Girl she probably wasn't a professional killer, judging by the disastrous way she tried to handle very dangerous situation (see below) and her clumsy use of a gun (which she probably kept in her apartment as a defence against burglars and other unwanted guests and not as a killing weapon, firing it for the first-and the last-time during confrontation with Bond), both with fatal consequences for her, and the fact that she had legitimate full-time job. She just had a misfortune to got Bond under her care while she was a member of an organisation with cruel leading lady, who gave her a task and won't accept "no" as an answer or tolerate failure.
- craftiness : she was setting up a fairly complex scheme to kill Bond, inconspicuously injecting him with a sedative and left it to her accomplice to finish him off. Who was going to suspect a nurse just doing her job of giving a therapy to the patient, right?
Ouch!
- manipulative behavior: she was using her obvious charm to achieve her dark goals. When Bond asked her why she was giving him another sedative, she teased him with double-entendre joke and with obvious joy. After she found him in the room with overpowered attacker, she quickly started to flirt with him, talking and touching him suggestively, in an apparent attempt to move his mind from any suspicions. When she found out he is about to leave hospital, she seductively expressed her disappointment, presumably in an attempt to interest him in a prospect to meet her again and to give her another chance to kill him. After she found him sitting uninvited in her apartment (no normal thing in any situation), instead of run and scream for cops, she just pretended she regained her composure and walked in and started immediately to undress, in full view of him! To be fair, she said to him she is going to change her clothes, but never started to put anything on after quickly striped down to bare essentials, just standing like that in front of him for minutes. One can argue she did this to lure him into sex and then finish him while he's off-guard.
- stupidity: by stepping into his trap, she showed she is not too bright, to put it mildly. If she just left her apartment the minute she saw him sitting there and called the police, he would be arrested for trespassing and she would remain alive and, probably, free. Because Bond didn't have any hard evidence against her. Figure of any kind and gun in a drawer, found after breaking into someone's apartment at that, aren't evidence of any kind in a court of law. She should have been aware of that and not to fall to his provocations once she already made a mistake by entering an apartment. Unfortunately for her, she once again showed her stupidity by pulling a gun, thus confirming his suspicions and making an excuse for him to present any action against her as selfdefense, which is exactly what he wanted and he didn't miss the opportunity to settle his accounts with her (see below).
- cowardice: while setting up a murder of injured man in hospital isn't exactly brave thing, once she realised Bond discovered her scheme, she loose her pleasant and merry facade and started to demonstrate her cowardice. She started to give evasive and nebulous answers to his questions and quickly loose her nerve and made fatal mistake by pulling a gun, threatening him openly for the first time. But her attempt to face him failed miserably when she get frightened of a bottle flying to her face and fired aimlessly.
Hush little baby, don't you cry...
She's gone
Final note: One can argue that all her numbered failings so disgusted Bond that he decided to finish her off more ruthlessly than most other female villains in the franchise (he seldom kill women in comics) . What other than sheer rage and vengefulness could make him grab her and throw her across the room after he already knocked her out and she no more posed a threat to him (Not to mention that hitting a woman in the head with a a bottle was unusually cruel to begin with)? Although her death is basically accidental, he threw her with such disregard for her life that she could easily get her neck broken. There are other indications (he deliberately left her gun in a place where he found it-it's inconceivable that he missed it during his search-so his action against her can look like selfdefense if she tries to use it; he placed the bottle beside him so can reach it easily) that he didn't have intention to let her out of that apartment alive in any case. And his sarcastic remarks (see below) revealed that he sadistically enjoyed his revenge.
Bond's pre-mortem one-liner:[]
"Didn't anyone ever tell you.." (as he hitting her with the bottle) "...firearms are dangerous, luv!" (while grabbing her hand, preparing to throw her).
Bond's post-mortem one-liner:[]
"Blimey-bracelets too!" (while he looking her being electrocuted).
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Full comic strips: https://evilbabes.miraheze.org/wiki/Nurse_(James_Bond)