Part of Series
Novo, kolekcionarsko, ćirilično izdanje britanskog novinskog stripa akciono-špijunsko-kriminalnog žanra koji je pop kulturi podario jednu od najpopularnijih strip heroina druge polovine XX veka. Modesti Blejz je debitovala u londonskim dnevnim novinama "The evening standard" 13. maja 1963. godine, a poslednja epizoda objavljena je 11. aprila 2001 godine. Stekla je svetsku popularnost, a osim u Britaniji bila je izuzetno popularna u Skandinaviji, posebno Švedskoj, kao i u nekadašnjoj Jugoslaviji. Osim stripa, o Modesti je objavljeno i trinaest knjiga: jedanaest romana i dve zbirke priča, a 1966. godine poslužila je i kao inspiracija za istoimeni film. U knjizi je sabrano prvih 8 epizoda, razgovori sa tvorcima, anegdote koje svedoče o nastanku i razvoju likova, mnoštvo ilustracija i fotografija i popis časopisa u kojima su epizode objavljivane na ovim prostorima. Sadržaj: 1. La machine 2. Veliki zalog = The Long Lever ; 3. Gabrijel = The Gabriel Set-Up ; 4. Gospodin Sun = Mister Sun ; 5. Um gospođe Drejk = The Mind of Mrs. Drake ; 6. Ujka Srećko = Uncle Happy ; 7. Veleizdajnik = Top Traitor ; 8. Vikinzi = The Vikings ; 8a. Početak = In the Beginning.
Author
Librarian 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.
