From what I understand, tho I've never read them, the books are quite different from both, the movies and the TV series.
I haven't seen a Matt Helm movie since childhood. I can't remember most of the things that went into them.

I have read the books (at least the early ones) and seen the movies. The books and the movies are about as much alike as Englehart & Rodgers' Batman and Adam West's Batman, but I enjoy each for what they are.

That's understandable. I get that feeling from my fave book and the various movie versions of it. I prefer the book overall, but most of the movies made based on the book are "ok".

Stella Stevens was in the first Matt Helm flick, The Silencers. Big O was the bad guy outfit in that one.
The Wrecking Crew was the fourth and final Dean Martin Matt Helm flick, the one where Bruce Lee was the fight coordinator and The Lord of All Things Manly, Chuck Norris, can be seen in a bar fight.

That had Elke Sommer in it.

Elke Sommer, Nancy Kwan, Sharon Tate, and Tine Louise...even Bond himself never had four beauties like that in the same picture!

You'd know.

Wow. The things you guys get up to while I'm at work hurt my head.

Mr_JTR has it right with Roberta Haggerty, Gayle Roberts, Jolt (who came back), Zemo (who came back), and Techno (who came back).

Unless you're Joe Quesada or Bendis, we might have to worry about your brain damage. If you are either of them, well, that's a road stop long since past, so no need to worry.



Anyhow...

And another one ended up selling Pearl Cream on infomercials; who had the worse fate?

I hadn't heard Norris had done this, but I agree with you. The theory of evolution may have a few holes in it, but at least it is a theory, arrived at through observation and rational deduction. Creationism isn't a theory at all; it's magic. It's fairy tales. It's Santa Claus.

Speaking of heads... The Golden Age hero, the Eternal Brain, had a daughter named Mary, who was kidnapped by a gang whose leader went by what name???
(Hint; His "name" was more like a title)



I'm looking for the answer according to the original Eternal Brain stories, not the "Lost Generation" tales.