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Modesty Blaise Story Strips #9
Modesty Blaise 9: The Gallows Bird
The dark underworld of espionage and crime is lit up by the fatal charms of the gorgeous Modesty Blaise — high priestess of pulp crime and goddess of cult thrillers! Modesty Blaise and her partner Willie Garvin face danger once more in The Gallows Bird. In The Wicked Gnomes, a dangerous organisation kidnaps an old friend of the duo... and it’s down to them to get her back. And a crash-landing in the jungle spells trouble in The Iron God, as our heroes fall into the hands of diamond thieves! Featuring brand new story introductions by Modesty creator Peter O’Donnell, plus a very rare interview with O’Donnell, this latest addition to the Modesty Blaise library is not to be missed!
128 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2006
About the author
Peter O'Donnell
328 books108 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
Peter O'Donnell also wrote as Madeleine Brent.
http://www.cs.umu.se/~kenth/modesty.html
is an excellent resource on this author.
To help keep the novels and the adventure strip collections separate, here's some info about the Modesty Blaise works.
In 1963, O'Donnell began his 38-year run as writer of the Modesty Blaise adventure story strip, which appeared six days a week in English and Scottish newspapers. He retired the strip in 2001.
Each strip story took 18-20 weeks to complete. Several publishers over the years have attempted to collect these stories in large softcovers. Titan Publishing is currently in the process of bringing them all out in large-format softcover, with 2-3 stories in each books. These are called "graphic novels" in the Goodreads title.
Meanwhile, during those 38 years, O'Donnell also wrote 13 books about Modesty Blaise: 11 novels and 2 short story/novella collections. These stories are not related to the strip stories; they are not novelizations of strip stories. They are entirely new, though the characters and "lives" are the same. These have been labeled "series #0".
There is a large article on Peter O'Donnell on Wikipedia, with a complete bibliography.
Peter O'Donnell also wrote as Madeleine Brent.
http://www.cs.umu.se/~kenth/modesty.html
is an excellent resource on this author.
To help keep the novels and the adventure strip collections separate, here's some info about the Modesty Blaise works.
In 1963, O'Donnell began his 38-year run as writer of the Modesty Blaise adventure story strip, which appeared six days a week in English and Scottish newspapers. He retired the strip in 2001.
Each strip story took 18-20 weeks to complete. Several publishers over the years have attempted to collect these stories in large softcovers. Titan Publishing is currently in the process of bringing them all out in large-format softcover, with 2-3 stories in each books. These are called "graphic novels" in the Goodreads title.
Meanwhile, during those 38 years, O'Donnell also wrote 13 books about Modesty Blaise: 11 novels and 2 short story/novella collections. These stories are not related to the strip stories; they are not novelizations of strip stories. They are entirely new, though the characters and "lives" are the same. These have been labeled "series #0".
There is a large article on Peter O'Donnell on Wikipedia, with a complete bibliography.
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July 13, 2023
What great fun! A collection of the wonderfully dated Modesty Blaise magazine comic strip, great adventures, a slick proto Lara Croft ass kicking mystery solving girl and her hunky rough diamond side kick.
July 17, 2016
This is Titan books ninth in the Modesty Blaise newspaper strip reprints , this time Romero is the illustrater who I much preffered than anyone else who portrayed Modesty .
April 24, 2017
More awesomeness, with four for the price of the (usual) three.
"The Gallows Bird" refers to a hanging-happy nutjob and a plan to flood New Orleans (long before that ACTUALLY happened). The "Wicked Gnomes" are a couple of evil dwarfs in Cornwall who kidnap Maude Tiller for a spy-swap deal. "The Bluebeard Affair" takes from the old French folktale and has a swarming old cad and his creepy daughters plotting to kill off spouses. Best of all is "The Iron God" referring to huge safe that crashes amidst cannibalistic tribes in the New Guinea jungle, and the evil bastard with a plan to open it.
None of those potted descriptions of mine do these twisty, funny, brilliant stories justice.
They never do.
10/10
"The Gallows Bird" refers to a hanging-happy nutjob and a plan to flood New Orleans (long before that ACTUALLY happened). The "Wicked Gnomes" are a couple of evil dwarfs in Cornwall who kidnap Maude Tiller for a spy-swap deal. "The Bluebeard Affair" takes from the old French folktale and has a swarming old cad and his creepy daughters plotting to kill off spouses. Best of all is "The Iron God" referring to huge safe that crashes amidst cannibalistic tribes in the New Guinea jungle, and the evil bastard with a plan to open it.
None of those potted descriptions of mine do these twisty, funny, brilliant stories justice.
They never do.
10/10
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