Ernst Stavro Blofeld, also known by the cryptonym "Number One", was a fictional head of the global criminal organisation SPECTRE. Based on the literary character created by Ian Fleming, the character served as an antagonist in Dynamite Entertainment's James Bond comic arc, Agent of SPECTRE, which ran between 3rd March and 21st July, 2021.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Born to a Polish father and a Greek mother, Ernst Stavro Blofeld was heir to a small shipping concern, which he built into a lucrative, and to all appearances legitimate business empire. Behind the veneer of respectability, Blofeld was the leader of the resuscitated SPECTRE crime organisation, which had been thought dismantled since the Cold War. The twenty stone, six-foot six former competitive weightlifter personally terminated operatives who disappointed him; often nearly decapitating them with a garrotte.
Agent of SPECTRE[]
Circa 2021, Blofeld's leadership of the organisation was threatened by an internal coup led by the ambitious Number Seven, Titania Jones. In need of outside assistance to settle the civil war, the villain lured James Bond to Paris and, after subduing him, made the spy a proposition - to assassinate Jones in exchange for €15 million and the life of his CIA friend, Felix Leiter. Bond agreed and, after staging Leiter's death, approached Jones with a counter-offer, luring her to his Greek meeting with Blofeld in the hope that they would kill one another. Blofeld survived the resulting helicopter raid by Jones' faction and took Bond with him to his stronghold at Meraki; only to discover that Number Seven had bribed his own men into taking up arms against him. She confronted him in a suit of hi-tech armour, and after a firefight he managed to escape and trigger the self-destruction of the island. Aware of Bond's betrayal, Blofeld dispatched assassins on a doomed mission to finish Leiter, and returned to kill the recently incapacitated Jones as she surrendered herself (and incriminating information) to Bond.
Aftermath[]
During the resulting conflagration and fistfight with 007, Blofeld was severely injured and thought deceased after being coaxed into the path of an explosion. Emerging victorious from the costly civil war, he was last seen chairing a meeting of SPECTRE in Switzerland.
See also[]
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Literary)
- Blofeld (classic film continuity)
- Blofeld (Christoph Waltz)
- Blofeld (Max von Sydow)
- Blofeld (Alfred Molina)
- Blofeld (Glenn Wrage)
- SPECTRE
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