Folly Wilde Channing was the American wife of spy, Mike Channing. The character served as an ally and Bond girl in the James Bond comic strip, Trouble Spot, which ran in The Daily Express newspapers between December 28, 1971 and June 10, 1972.
Biography[]
Folly Wilde met her late husband and intelligence operative, Mike Channing, while in a state of "hysterical blindness" brought on by traumatic shock. The pair subsequently honeymooned in Majorca. Channing, highly protective of his wife, subsequently sent her into hiding in Belluna, California, United States. Despite her great beauty, Michael wouldn't let her be photographed for fear the KGB might obtain a copy. Channing had recently come into possession of an item of great interest to Eastern and Western intelligence agencies - the skull of Russian double-agent, Piotr Vassilyevitch Grigorov. Before he departed on a fateful final mission behind the Iron Curtain, Channing entrusted the skull to his wife in a sealed box. Still blind, she hid the Box in a coastal cave she frequented during her childhood.
A sun-worshipper, Wilde hid in plain sight - a Californian nudist resort, Camp Heliotrope. Her sight eventually returned and it was there that she met British spy, James Bond. Posing as her late husband, who had died following a fatal automobile accident outside Paris, Bond convinced her to help him recover the Box. Mike's mistrustful girlfriend, Gretta, also forcefully tagged along; concerned that Bond might cut her out of the deal. Together, they travelled to the cave where Folly hid the Box - unaware that Soviet agent, Baron Sharck, and his men had followed them with a homing device. A tense, armed standoff ensued; culminating in Gretta's death. After Sharck radioed for a napalm-equipped helicopter to break the standoff, Bond caused a distraction and hijacked a nearby power shovel; scooping up the baron's car and knocking the helicopter from the sky with its boom arm. Both vehicles were consumed by napalm, violently exploded and toppled over the edge of the cliff. The pair reacquired the Box and contacted London. Now aware of his true identity, Folly and Bond subsequently develop a romantic relationship.