The James Bond Dossier 'almost parodic scholarly dedication', Amis provides a ten-category ('Places', 'Girl', 'Villain's Project', etc.) reference guide (pp. 156–159) to the Bond novels and short stories. Typical of Amis's approach is where he suggests several implausibilities in Bond's capture by the eponymous villain in "Dr No" (1958). However, that 'Bond is temporarily helpless in his creator's grip', does not matter, because 'three of Mr Fleming's favourite situations are about to come up one after the other. Bond is to be wined and dined, lectured on the aesthetics of power, and finally tortured by his chief enemy'. Earlier, Amis had discussed the matter
Super-Villain Team-Up 1940s sweetheart Betty Dean and the death of her murderer, Doctor Dorcas. Steve Englehart created The Shroud, a character partly inspired by Batman, shortly before he started to work for DC Comics on "Detective Comics". In 2007 Marvel published "Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11", a five-issue miniseries featuring eleven supervillains in the manner of the movie "Ocean's Eleven". This 2009 miniseries features Doctor Doom working with other villains. Super-Villain Team-Up Super-Villain Team-Up is the name of two American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. Both series featured supervillains as the protagonists. The first series started in 1975 with two giant-size