[crashryan]

After some digging I learned O.S.S. was an early offering of Lew Grade's ITC. From WikiZero:



O.S.S. was a Buckeye Productions and Associated Television co-produced wartime television drama series.

It ran for 26 half-hour monochrome episodes during the 1957–1958 season and was distributed by ITC Entertainment and networked in the United States by ABC.

The series followed the adventures of Frank Hawthorne, an agent with the American Office of Strategic Services, who operated behind Nazi lines in occupied France.
Main cast:

Ron Randell as Captain Frank Hawthorn
Lionel Murton as The Chief
Robert Gallico as O'Brien

Guest stars included Lois Maxwell, Christopher Lee and Doctor Who villain Roger Delgado.

Link to the book: T. V. Picture Stories - O.S.S. Operation Sweet Talk

[Andrew999]

Thanks, Crash - very interesting

[paw broon]

Curiously, there was also a photo novel version of the show, also published by Pearsons.  Pearsons published a small range of photo comics incl. a series titled Continental Film Photo Series.
https://www.comics.org/series/67283/covers/
GCD has TV photo stories:-

https://www.comics.org/series/154120/covers/
Dial 999 was a popular tv show here with Robert Beatty, and there is a dvd with a few episodes floating about on the internet.
The Photo Series books were close to standard comic book size, not pocket library size like Pearsons comic libraries.

[crashryan]

Somewhat off-topic, but I've always been fascinated by TV and movie adaptations, both drawn and photographed. There were few of the latter in the USA, but US movies showed up as photo-novels in other countries. I have a large-format Italian photo adaptation of My Man and I (1952--Italian title, Il Mio Uomo), in which Shelley Winters was still pretty and Ricardo Montalban had plenty of opportunities to show off his hot body. The printing is surprisingly good. In size it's around 8.5x11.

[The Australian Panther]

The OSS, the American Office of Strategic Services was the precursor of the CIA. The Actor Sterling Hayden enlisted in the OSS and went underground in Yugoslavia. He never talked about it much.
Here is The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Society Website. Better reading than many comics.
https://www.osssociety.org/

I didn't know that TV show and ihat comics related to it existed. I'll have to have a closer look.

Can't find this series on YouTube. Anybody know which actors starred,.

However there is  a french James Bond Character called OSS 117. Based on the Novels of Jean Bruce.
Still making films to this day, but here is an earlier version. In French.
OSS 117 IS NOT DEAD Jean Levitte 1956 English Subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFSfjjBZHJY

No doubt there are comics for that character also. 
   

[Andrew999]

There are indeed:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=comics+pocket+OSS117&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjEwo_57-noAhVYwIUKHVRLALwQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=comics+pocket+OSS117&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQA1DzlRRYkZgUYI6aFGgAcAB4AIABRIgBhQGSAQEymAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWc&sclient=img&ei=JrOWXsSXNdiAlwTUloHgCw&bih=853&biw=1821&client=opera&hs=VWf

Produced by Comics Pocket from 1966-82. A new series was recently launched by