Elmo Clayton was a American business magnate; whose business empire included Clayton Computers and Clayton Computrex, Ltd.. The character appeared in the James Bond comic strip, The League of Vampires, which ran in The Daily Express newspapers between October 25, 1972 and February 28, 1973.
Biography[]
Elmo Clayton was America's largest manufacturer and father of heiress, Margo Xerophanos. He was involved in the creation of Clayton Computrex, Ltd. - a joint Anglo-American venture between his own technology firm, Clayton Computers, and Computrex. Together they had developed revolutionary new computer technology with implications to the military and space fields. Clayton became the target of a plot by his industrialist son-in-law, Xerxes Xerophanos; who intended to destroy his rivals' new manufacturing plant with a stolen nuclear warhead and inherit his wife's fortune. After travelling to Britain for the plant's dedication ceremony, Mr. Clayton and his staff were assailed by Xerophanos' remote-controlled, warhead-equipped tank. Before it could be detonated, James Bond escaped on-board the villain's control ship - dumping the vessel's fuel into the sea and threatening to set it alight; detonating a second nuclear bomb Xerophanos held on-board as insurance. The mogul was subsequently shot to death by his own mutinous crew. In the aftermath, Bond was personally thanked by Clayton.