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| - Campion Bond is a fictional character in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics series by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, appearing in both Volume I and Volume II. A rotund, effeminate MI5 agent, Bond acts as a usually-shadowy intermediary between the League and M. Unlike almost all of the other (even minor) characters that appear in the comic, Campion is not from period literature. Moore and O'Neill could not find a character that matched the type that they needed, and so invented one. However, in keeping with the comic theme (and done with several other later League characters) they intended him to be the ancestor of a later similar character, James Bond. For copyright reasons the relationship cannot directly be stated, but is implied through Bond's status as an agent of British Intelligence beneath an M, as well as carrying a cigarette case that is inscribed with "007" in Morse code, along with "Jimmy" carrying the same case in The Black Dossier and, in the same comment, Mina Murray comparing "Jimmy" to his grandfather, Campion.
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