Francisco Scaramanga cannot whistle has homosexual tendencies. As with Blofeld, the name is believed to have come from a schoolmate of Fleming's, George Ambrosios (Ambrose) Scaramanga. In the film "The Man with the Golden Gun", Francisco is a high-priced assassin, supposedly the best in the world, charging one million dollars per kill. He is best known for being "The man with the golden gun", for using only bullets made of gold in a (fictional) 4.2 mm cartridge with a disassemblable golden handgun made of a gold cigarette case, gold cigarette lighter, gold fountain pen and gold cufflink as the gun's trigger. All
The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) form in the "Daily Express" newspaper on a daily basis from 22 March 1965 onwards. This novel was also serialised over four issues of "Playboy" from April through July 1965. The novel was adapted as a daily comic strip which was published in the "Daily Express" newspaper and syndicated around the world. The adaptation ran from 10 January to 10 September 1966. The adaptation was written by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by Yaroslav Horak. The strip was reprinted by Titan Books in "The James Bond Omnibus Vol. 2", published in 2011. In 1974, Eon Productions made the ninth Bond film,