Derek Flint is a fictional world adventurer and master spy featured in a series of movies and comic books.
In 1965, 20th Century Fox presented its own version of a master spy to take on United Artists' popular James Bond franchise.
Just a few include a black belt in Judo, Olympic medals in at least five different events, degrees from 17 different universities, creation of highly prized paintings, and the ability to speak fluently in 45 languages and dialects.
[clarification needed] Using one secret device, Derek Flint ensnares General Carter with a cigarette lighter grappling hook gun.
When a crisis arises that demands someone of Flint's abilities, Cramden has to mend fences and get Derek to help save the world.
Flintlock, a 1972 script by Harlan Ellison (primarily a writer of short-form fiction and nonfiction, but also a screenwriter), never saw production.
In 2011 Moonstone Books released That Man Flint, a one-shot comic written by Gary Phillips and drawn by Kevin Jones.
Derek Flint, inventor, ballet instructor, editor and contributor of the revised Kama Sutra, transcendentalist and translator of an ancient Mayan cookbook, seeker of the third eye and freelance spy, is the one M.A.C.E.
From crazed Nazi scientists hatching dastardly plans, sultry Russian spies with killer bodies and kung fu grips, super strength cyborg assassins, to fiendish henchmen and quixotic masterminds, these are examples of adversaries mystery writer Gary Phillips (Operator 5 and Decimator Smith) will throw at the cool, collected Mr. Flint.
The emblem of the Galaxy organization, which was composed of crossed ellipses with a "G" in the middle and appeared on the uniforms of its members, was reused for those of the civilian aerospace transport firm of Land of the Giants, after rotating it ninety degrees clockwise.