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John Gardner's Scorpius (1988) - Free Avante Carte Promotional Credit Card?

DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
edited July 2018 in Merchandise Posts: 17,787
In Raymond Benson's The James Bond Bedside Companion (2nd edn, 1988) it mentions that the John Gardner continuation novel Scorpius (1988) had a promotional Avante Carte Credit Card to promote the book, for sale at the same time as the sale of the hardback first edition of the novel in 1988 (which had an Avante Carte credit card on the front cover). My question is, does anyone here know any more details about this or even have one of these promotional products? If so, I'd really love to hear from you.

This is quite unusual and I think it's one of the few promotions that accompanied the John Gardner continuation novels. There were promotions through the cars used in the early novels - both the Saab 900 and the Bentley Mulsanne Turbo had promotions accompanying them.

Hopefully some of the collectibles experts here on MI6 may be able to help me on this. Posted below is a link to an image of the Avante Carte credit card:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ScorpiusNovelCover.jpg

Comments

  • RNomuraRNomura
    Posts: 1
    I knew John Gardner in the 90s as he was a big collector of Magic Books. I asked him about the Avante Credit Card and if he could find me one. He contacted his publishers but could never find out if the card replica actually existed. Finally, he sent me a UK 1st Edition copy of Scorpius with a nice inscription inside.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 17,787
    RNomura wrote:
    I knew John Gardner in the 90s as he was a big collector of Magic Books. I asked him about the Avante Credit Card and if he could find me one. He contacted his publishers but could never find out if the card replica actually existed. Finally, he sent me a UK 1st Edition copy of Scorpius with a nice inscription inside.

    I'd really love to hear more of your views on this one. The card did exist - there is a reply on a similar thread over at AJB from someone who had one of the promotional cards. Could you tell me more on John Gardner and his collection of magic books. This is an area that I am very interested in.

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