Swedish comic book publisher Semic Press started a James Bond comic book magazine in 1965. Originally, the contents were derived from British James Bond newspaper strips; translated and edited to fit the comic book format. As time passed the archive of newspaper strip stories (which had come to an end in 1985) was soon depleted and reprinted over and over again. Semic editors therefore decided to acquire rights to produce their own Bond stories directly for the comic book. The first James Bond story produced by Semic was published in Swedish James Bond #1/1982 (Scandinavian comic magazines usually re-start the numbering each year). It was called "Den gyllene triangeln" ("The Golden Triangle"), drawn by Escolano and written by Norwegians Terje Nordberg and Eirik Ildahl under the pseudonym J