The Mind of Mrs Drake/ Uncle Happy

Modesty Blaise Comics #3

by Peter O'Donnell, Jim Holdaway (Illustrator)

Collects: 5 The Mind of Mrs. Drake; 6 Uncle Happy.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

64 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1981

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

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lepi crtezi, interesantne pricice i malo naivni razgovori. Prelepa kombinacija James Bond postavke i jakog zenskog junaka. Me like :)

Steta sto ih vise nema u Politikinom Zabavniku.

[George Jankovic · Rating 5 out of 5]

Uncle Happy is one of my favorite Modesty Blaise episodes. She and Willie make huge risks and showcase their guerilla fighting skills to beat an evil, eccentric, wealthy couple.

Enjoy!

[StrictlySequential · Rating 5 out of 5]

Solid all around except for the presentation. Way too small for that many words- each page is a prose page to read. It's something that reads perfectly day-to-day but when lumped atop each other it becomes burdensome. But that's a quality of the best in strip cartooning.

England's Titan Books does it perfectly ->album sized<- with no white blocks between SO if you want an intro to a beautifully stripped Modesty-> go that way first.

[Nat ☆ · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 ⭐️ - am i ready to dedicate my life to another 'will they/won't they' devotional friendship filled with romantic/sexual undertones that could hit you right in the face...well yes, yes i am