BIMBO

Real Name: Unrevealed (see comments)

Identity/Class: Alternate reality (Earth-1219) human

Occupation: Intelligence officer (see comments)

Group Membership: The Secret Service (a.k.a. MI-6 - see comments)

Affiliations: Mark Hamill

Enemies: Doctor James Arnold, Arnold's minions (Hermann, others)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations:

First Appearance: Secret Service#1 (June 2012)

Powers/Abilities: Bimbo was a highly trained secret agent. He was trained in multiple unarmed combat styles including kung-fu and boxing, and also to use a wide range of weapons; notably he was an exceptional shot with handguns. His training also encompassed piloting various types of aircraft, stunt driving any type of car, sword-fighting, medicine, languages, physics, ballistics, seduction and persuasion. He was also a trained parachutist, having done innumerable successful jumps - though even he couldn't manage to land safely without a working parachute.

Height: 6'2" (see comments)
Weight: 200 lbs. (by estimation)
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Black

History:
(Secret Service#1 (fb) - BTS) - Bimbo was an agent of the British Secret Service and had done numerous missions, many of which had included parachute drops, including ones where he had driven himself off cliffs to safely parachute to the ground below.

   His latest mission involved looking into the kidnappings of multiple actors from cult science fiction shows, including cast and crew from the Star Wars movies, the TV show Doctor Who, from Star Trek (the original set of series rather than the J.J. Abrams movies), and Battlestar Galactica (version not specified). Through unrevealed means Bimbo tracked the recently kidnapped Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker in Star Wars) to an isolated mountain lodge in Zermatt, Switzerland, where his captors were holding the actor until he could be transferred on to another location...

(Secret Service#6 - BTS) - where he would join the other kidnap victims as prisoners of tech billionaire Doctor James Arnold.

(Secret Service#1 (fb) - BTS) - Bimbo approached the lodge via a snowmobile, setting up boobytraps including garotte wires strung between trees at about neck height in anticipation of being pursued when on the way back out. Armed with a silenced pistol he parked the snowmobile just far enough away from the lodge to ensure the sentries would not hear his approach, but close enough to quickly run back to, then killed his way past the outside sentries and slipped inside, still undetected by the guards within.

(Secret Service#1) - Finding four kidnappers in the room with Mark Hamill Bimbo slew three of them before they even knew he was there, then shot the last one in the back of the head (seeming to deliberately give the man just enough time to realize what was about to happen). The agent then informed the shocked actor that he was from the British Secret Service and there to rescue him, before being interrupted by another guard who entered the room carrying a tray of hot drinks. Shooting this new arrival before he could fully register what was happening Bimbo told Hamill to head for the snowmobile, and when the actor asked where it was Bimbo instructed him to just follow the trail of corpses. As he departed Bimbo dropped an explosive device which blew up seconds later, killing even more guards who had been standing sentry around the other side of the lodge. With Hamill riding behind him Bimbo raced off on the snowmobile, but almost immediately more of Arnold's men were in hot pursuit, racing behind them on skies while firing at them with automatic weapons. Unconcerned, Bimbo told Hamill to keep his head down, and they passed unharmed beneath the wires Bimbo had set earlier, while several of their pursuers were decapitated. Several more continued to give chase, so Bimbo launched missiles from the back of the snowmobile, blowing many of them up. However, more continued to show up, this time on their own snowmobiles. In response Bimbo raced his vehicle straight towards a cliff and launched them off it despite Hamill's understandable terror. Grabbing the actor, Bimbo reassured him that he'd done this millions of times and the parachute he was wearing could hold both of them. Unfortunately, it failed to deploy, and as Arnold's men watched in shock the pair plummeted to their deaths, smashing brutally head first on the rocks below. Moments after they hit the ground, the chute finally opened

   The news of Bimbo's demise soon made its way back to his agency. Discussing their fellow agent's untimely demise Sir Giles theorized that the equipment failure was the fault of budget cuts.

Comments: Created by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons.

   Around the same time that Marvel published The Secret Service miniseries the story was also published in serialized form in Mark Millar's U.K. magazine CLiNT. However, while both Secret Service#1 and the relevant issue of CLiNT (Vol.2#1) are cover dated June 2012, the Marvel title was released a couple of months earlier than the cover date, unlike the U.K. magazine, so the story (and Bimbo) first appeared in the Marvel series.

   In Secret Service#2 Jack London tells his nephew Eggsy that he is a "secret agent", and presumably by inference this should hold true for Bimbo too; though movies often call spies that, in the real world though the people working for the intelligence agencies are not called secret agents but Intelligence Operatives, and it is sources who are termed agents. However since London was explaining his work to someone whose general knowledge was mostly limited to video games and movies, it's likely that London went with the job name that Eggsy would understand, rather than the strictly accurate one.

   The revelation in Secret Service#6 that the main villain James Arnold has turned many within the Secret Service to his cause, including Rupert Greaves, who had direct access to the equipment being prepared for agents in the field as shown in #2, puts Bimbo's death in a possibly different light. With somewhat black humor, in #1 Sir Giles speculated that the parachute failed due to budget cuts - "probably stitched together by some Vietnamese toddler to save some more bloody money." But perhaps it was sabotage rather than an accident, orchestrated by Greaves or another traitor after they determined that Bimbo would never be won over to their cause?

   Bimbo is not named during the sequence where he appears and dies, but his passing is discussed later in Secret Service#1 by Jack London and Sir Giles, and both of them call him Bimbo. I can't imagine that was his official codename, not unless the person who assigned it had a seriously childish sense of humor, nor is it likely that his real name (first or surname) was Bimbo, so I've got to imagine that it was a nickname used by his friends. If so it might be because his real name in some way sounded close to Bimbo, or it might be a description of how he acted. Both of these make me think that his real name was James Bond. No, seriously. He looks like Bond, he has the same attitude, and the stunt which kills him is almost identical to the opening sequence from the Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me, down to the Union Jack parachute. Additionally, in Secret Service#6 we get told the names of some past Secret Service agents - Steed, Gambit, Drake and Templar. All four are British spies from television or books in the last case - John Steed from The Avengers, Steed's partner Mike Gambit from The New Avengers, John Drake from Danger Man, and Simon Templar from The Saint novels and their TV adaptations and movies. Secret Service#6 does also include a rescued celebrity who mentions he used to play James Bond, but I don't think that negates the possibility that Bimbo was also intended to be Bond.

   In the movie version, Kingsman: The Secret Service, the character was James Spencer, codename Lancelot, and he was killed by Gazelle while attempting to rescue Professor James Arnold, rather than from a fatal fall while trying to rescue Mark Hamill. He was played by Jack Davenport, while Professor Arnold, in a cheeky bit of casting, was played by Mark Hamill. While many of the actors in the movie do not resemble their comic counterparts (for example, Gazelle in the comics is a black man, but in the movie Gazelle is an Algerian woman), Davenport and Bimbo are an exception and are physically fairly similar, and so in the absence of other ways to calculate them more accurately, I've ASSumed that Bimbo has the same physical stats as Davenport. The comic's agents don't use Arthurian codenames, so Bimbo wouldn't be codenamed Lancelot in the comics either; in terms of real identities, the movie versions do match the comics some of the time, so it is feasible that if Bimbo's real name isn't Bond then it could be the James Spencer.

   There are a number of other pertinent differences between the comic's secret agents and the movie versions. In the movies they work for Kingsman, an independent agency loyal to Britain but not affiliated with the British government or authorities, but in the comic they are "special operatives for Her Majesty's Government and working on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office." Though it's not outright stated, that's MI-6 (Military Intelligence-6, a.k.a. the Security Intelligence Service), the real world agency that the fictional James Bond works for, and the one tasked with overseas missions, the "U.K. C.I.A." as it were. The FBI counterpart would be MI-5 (Military Intelligence-5, a.k.a. the Security Service), which works for the government department known as the Home Office. And in case you're wondering, yes, there used to be an MI-1 through MI-19 (excepting MI-13, which wasn't used in the real world), with the first being launched during the First World War and most of them operating primarily during World War II.

   As in the movie, in the comics the villain was kidnapping celebrities in order to ensure they survived his plan to purge the majority of Earth's population. However, while in the movie said celebrities included politicians, sportsmen and women, and famous actors and singers, in the comic Arnold seemed to be exclusively snatching up people involved in producing hit SF films and TV shows - as well as the ones mentioned in the history above, Arnold also took at least one actor who played James Bond and the entire cast of the British SF sitcom Red Dwarf. 

   This profile was completed on 04/12/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25^th anniversary's celebratory event to represent The Secret Service.

Profile by Loki.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Bimbo has no known connections to:

• HEATER DELIGHT - nicknamed the Bimbo by Blastaar--Warlock I#12
• or any other "Bimbo" characters

images: (without ads)
Secret Service#1, p3, pan1 (main image)
Secret Service#1, p3, pan3 (headshot)
Secret Service#1, p7, pan1 (driving off cliff)
Secret Service#1, p8, pan1-4 (crashing to ground)
Screengrab from Kingsman: The Secret Service (Jack Davenport as Lancelot)
Secret Service#1, p1, pan4 (Mark Hamill)

Appearances:
Secret Service#1 (June 2012) - Mark Millar (writer), Dave Gibbons (art), Nicole Boose (editor)

First Posted: 09/19/2026
Last updated: 04/12/2026

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