Jeg fik aldrig samlet Titan Books’ første forsøg på at genoptrykke “Modesty Blaise”, så jeg var naturligvis glad, da de så startede påny i dette årti. Jeg ved ikke, hvad der er de bedste udgaver, da jeg ikke har sammenlignet, men jeg tror både Ken Pierces og Titan udgaverne er værd at samle på. Endelig er der jo også de danske albums og Agent X9 bladet.
Her er de flotte forsider af John Burns til Titans første genoptryks-serie fra 80’erne:
John Burns er en engelsk tegner, der er kendt for “The Seekers” (da. “Sporhundene”) og “Danielle”. John Burns tegnede to en halv historie med “Modesty Blaise” efter at Romero forlod serien. Men han var ikke populær hos læserne.
Her er et billede fra “The Seekers” af John Burns:
fra http://www.sayyide.de/html/titan_books.html
Contents:
The Gabriel Set-Up: La Machine, The Long Lever, In the Beginning, The Gabriel Set-Up (all drawn by Jim Holdaway) (1984)
Mr. Sun: Mr. Sun, The Mind of Mrs. Drake, The Killing Ground (all Jim Holdaway) (1985)
The Hell-Makers: The Hell-Makers, The Galley Slaves, The Red Gryphon (all Jim Holdaway) (1986)
The Warlords of Phoenix: Take-Over (Holdaway), The Warlords of Phoenix (Holdaway/Romero), Willie the Djinn (Romero) (1986)
Death of a Jester: Death of a Jester, The Green-eyed Monster, The Stone-age Caper (all Romero) (1987)
The Puppet Master: The Puppet Master, With Love from Rufus, The Bluebeard Affair (all Romero) (1987)
The Iron God: The Iron God, The Wicked Gnomes (all Romero) (1988)
Uncle Happy: Uncle Happy, Bad Suki (all Holdaway) (1990)
Og her er de første seks af den nye udgave fra Titan, alle med Holdaway, samler Holdaway, hold da helt op!
fra http://www.sayyide.de/html/titan_books.html
Contents:
1 – The Gabriel Set-Up, La Machine, The Long Lever, In the Beginning
2 – Mister Sun, The Mind of Mrs. Drake, Uncle Happy
3 – Top Traitor, The Vikings, The Head-Girls
4 – The Black Pearl, The Magnified Man, The Jericho-Caper, The Killing Ground
5 – Bad Suki, The Galley Slaves, The Red Gryphon (all artwork by Jim Holdaway)
6 – The Hell Makers, Take-Over, The War-Lords of Phoenix (artwork by Jim Holdaway and – part of War-Lords of Phoenix – Enric Badia Romero)
Før Titan Books gik i gang med at genoptrykke “Modesty Blaise” i England, var der “First American Edition Series” af genoptryk fra Ken Pierce Books i USA, de sidste fire med historier tegnet af Neville Colvin:
fra http://www.sayyide.de/html/first_american_edition.html
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1 – Top Traitor, The Vikings (Holdaway) 2 – The Mind of Mrs. Drake, Uncle Happy (Holdaway) 3 – The Jericho Caper, Bad Suki (Holdaway) 4 – The Black Pearl, The Magnified Man (Holdaway) 5 – The Lady Killers, Garvins Travels, The Scarlet Maiden (Neville Colvin) 6 – The Moonman, A Few Flowers for the Colonel, The Balloonatic (Neville Colvin) 7 – Death in Slow Motion, The Alternative Man, Sweet Caroline (Neville Colvin) 8 – The Return of the Mammoth, Platos Republic, The Sword of the Bruce (Neville Colvin) |
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Desuden udgav Pioneer 10 hæfter og en annual i deres serie “The Official Modesty Blaise”, med ombrudte ruder, så de er ikke interessante.
Og så er der månedsbladet “Comics Revue” i magazine format, med genoptryk af diverse strips.
fra http://www.sayyide.de/html/comics_revue.html#MBQ
COMICS REVUE has been reprinting Modesty Blaise since issue No. 26, starting with panel No. 6625, following through right to the end of the strip (panel 10183) in issue 187 (except issues 30, 37-39 and 43). From Comics Revue 188 onward Rick Norwood has been reprinting the strips from the very beginning in chronological order. Maybe he will someday accomplish what many publishers have promised to do but never fulfilled – The Complete Modesty Blaise Collection. He’s already well beyond halfway point …
Besides Comics Revue Rick Norwood reprinted older strips in Modesty Blaise Quarterly, Comics Revue Annual #2 and Comics Revue Special #1.
Recently he has also published two trade paperbacks with collections of three stories each, Live Bait and Lady in the Dark.
Peter O’Donnell, som oprindeligt skrev “Modesty Blaise” som avis serie, blev bedt om at skrive en roman med Modesty Blaise i kølvandet på Joseph Loseys film fra 1966 med Monica Vitti i hovedrollen. Det blev til 13 originale romaner, hvoraf jeg har et par stykker i paperback. Det skulle ikke være helt umuligt at samle dem.
Og forfatteren Peter O’Donnell får det sidste ord om denne serie:
“I’m sometimes asked: Which do you prefer writing — book or strip?
Answer: It doesn’t matter which medium I’m writing in, I always like any of the others best because they’re easier. That’s a kind of smart-ass interview answer, though there’s a lot of truth in it. But come right down to it and I have to say that the book gives more satisfaction. There’s elbow room to give more nuances of feeling and to say what’s going on inside your characters. There’s more room for humour; you can pause for a little character-bit that would take four days in a strip, and then wouldn’t work anyway because of the twenty-four hours between each strip. There’s more room for exposition; you can take time out to give a precise description of Willie´s handmade knives, which is technically very interesting – but watch it, because such technical stuff doesn’t interest everybody, and if you get carried away you lose your reader.
But I suppose the main reason a book feels more satisfying is because it’s a solo effort — no actors, no artist, no director, just you and the words and the reader. You can’t blame anyone but yourself.”
Peter O’Donnell, The Hell-Makers, Titan Books 1986