Modesty Blaise 13: Yellowstone Booty

Modesty Blaise Story Strips #13

by Peter O'Donnell, Enrique Badía Romero (Illustrator), John Burns (Illustrator)

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! In this latest volume, Modesty faces off against a group of racketeers who have eyes on valuable Native American treasure in €˜Yellowstone Booty€™; in €˜Idaho George€™, Modesty and a con man are imprisoned by a gang who want to turn fools gold into the real thing; and in €˜The Golden Frog€™, learn about the secret origin of her fighting skills!Featuring brand new story introductions by Modesty creator and bestselling author Peter O€™Donnell, plus exclusive behind-the-scenes paintings and rarely seen artwork by John Burns, this latest addition to the Modesty Blaise library is not to be missed!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction

104 pages, Paperback

First published June 10, 2008

About the 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.

Reviews

[Richard Clay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nothing here on the level of 'The Head Girls' - or 'The Grim Joker' - or 'Return of the Mammoth' - or 'Milord'. But those are the absolute pinnacle of Modesty and, therefore, the greatest adventure stories ever told. There's still plenty to enjoy in this collection in which John Burns takes over from Romero as artist.

[Dave · Rating 5 out of 5]

A self-induced comas for gangsters who’ve kidnapped a con-man in England. A trap by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia (very political!). And Aztec treasure (!!!) in Yellowstone National Park. Still awesome (although Burns is no Romero).

9/10

[Poonam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Laid my hands on a Modesty Blaise graphic novel after a very long time, but it was a fun read. Again. :)