In the book Dr. No, his briefing is "This important intelligence officer in the Caribbean has gone missing. Most likely he's run off with his secretary. Here's your gun. Go deal with this."
I always thought fixers were what cleaned up after HIS work.
Sort of like in Pulp Fiction when Mr. Wolf is called. He fixes the situation, becoming connected to the mess, performing otherwise illegal actions to fix the initial, yet unintentional murder, for pay.
Maybe if the fourth panel was removed, it would hold some humor. An expiration date on something so special as a licence go kill could give a soft chuckle. But since the fourth panel suggests that he is about to solve the issue somehow, it just makes it confusing. What is the funny part?