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Modesty Blaise is a British comic strip featuring a fictional Modesty Blaise: Gallows Bird of the same name, created by author Peter O'Donnell and illustrator Jim Holdaway in The strip follows Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talents and a criminal past, and her trusty sidekick Willie Garvin. It was adapted into films in, andand from onwards eleven novels and two short story Modesty Blaise: Gallows Bird were written. Both versions of stripe can be seen at ComicWiki. This appeared on the soundtrack album issued by 20th Century Fox S and also as a single on the Fontana label. Rock group Sparks wrote and recorded a song intended as the theme tune for the aborted TV series. Using an amended title " Modesty Plays " to avoid trademark infringement, it was released originally in as a France-only single and subsequently in a new version on their album Music That You Can Dance To. Singer Russell Mael admits that he is actually singing "Blaise" not "Plays". The concept of the album Modesty by the former Yugoslav pop rock band Bel Tempo was inspired by the Modesty Blaise character. The first track, " Modesty Blaise ", alludes to the character, especially in her comic-strip form. Modesty and Willie are also seen driving an Aston Martin DB5 in La Machinea car which did not become associated with James Bond until the release of the film Goldfinger the following year. This car also featured in Modesty Blaise: Gallows Bird Mind of Mrs Drake This car, driven by both Modesty and Willie, appeared in the strips on numerous occasions in the next few years and in the books A Taste for Death and The Impossible Virgin. Modesty has a Rolls-Royce as her luxury car, and is chauffeured by Weng, but the model varies. As with some of the Modesty Blaise: Gallows Bird characters, the books sometimes — but Modesty Blaise: Gallows Bird always — reflected the comic strips. Just as in the contemporary James Bond films, the cars featured were an integral part of the character image conveyed by the stories. In the early s, an audio tape reading of the short story, " I Had a Date with Lady Janet " from Pieces of Modestywas published by Pickwick Modesty Blaise: Gallows Bird Books featuring John Thaw the story was a first-person tale told from Willie Garvin's Modesty Blaise: Gallows Bird of view. The American magazine Comics Revue also continues to reprint the strip, and remains to date the only publisher to have released an English- language version of The Dark Angels. In India [17] Modesty has acquired a huge fan base and the stories have been published in various magazines starting in They were also published in English in Spectrum Comics — Considering the medium, certain images from the stories were edited to make them suitable for child readers. In Sweden the strip has been in continuous distribution since in a monthly comic adventure magazine called Agent X9 after the existing Modesty comic magazine Agent Modesty Blaisestarted inwas merged with the X9 magazine. Many of O'Donnell's stories premiered here translated into Swedishand the magazine continues to run a Modesty Blaise story every month, from the archives. When the daily strip was discontinued, artist Romero was given permission by O'Donnell to do a final Modesty Blaise story directly for Agent X9 magazine. The two-parter was published in and based on an unused script by O'Donnell entitled The Dark Angelswhich O'Donnell had previously adapted for the short story collection Cobra Trap. Romero has for the past years also contributed with original painted covers for the Agent X9 magazine. There are also cases where characters first appear in the books and then subsequently appear in the comic strip — Steve Collier first appears in I Lucifer and his future wife Dinah in A Taste for Death but they do not appear in the strip until Lady in the Dark Although the Modesty Blaise: Gallows Bird generally reflect the characters previously established in the comic strip, there are a number of detail differences. One example of this is how Modesty is initially recruited to work for Sir Gerald Tarrant — although the strip story La Machine and the book story Modesty Blaise have similarities, and in both Tarrant achieves his aim by putting her under an obligation, in the strip story this relates to the validity of her marriage and therefore her right to British nationality and residence while in the book he provides Modesty Blaise: Gallows Bird with Modesty Blaise: Gallows Bird that enables her to rescue Willie Garvin and save his life. The name of her husband is given in the strip, with the marriage taking place in and him dying in ; in the novel he is unnamed and the marriage took place in InPenguin Books of India reprinted the full series. Beginning in the early s decadeSouvenir Press began a series of paperback reprints of the Modesty Blaise book series, using the first edition hardback covers, and originally concluding with a reprint of Cobra Trap in Souvenir subsequently gained the rights to the short story collection Pieces of Modesty and issued their reprint of that book in Marchwith a new cover design based on the original hardback cover from the first Modesty novel, at which point all the Blaise Modesty Blaise: Gallows Bird fell under the same UK publisher for the first time. O'Donnell's final book, Cobra Trapis a short story collection. Intended by O'Donnell to be his literary finale, the final story Modesty Blaise: Gallows Bird the deaths of Modesty and Willie with an implied afterlife. O'Donnell, however, would continue to write the comic strip for several more years, and chose to end it on a more optimistic note, though the comic strip's finale does not contradict the prose version. O'Donnell was invited to write a novelization of the film. The novelreleased a year before the film itself, and based on his original screenplay for the movie, fared considerably better than the film. During the following decades he would write a total of eleven Modesty Blaise novels and two collections of short stories. Several of the short stories either adapt comic strip stories, or would later be adapted into comic strip stories themselves. Characters cross over between the two media. Except for "Pieces of Modesty", the books were originally issued in hardback and have subsequently gone through numerous paperback editions. Quentin Tarantino has been interested in directing a Modesty Blaise film for many years, and at one point Neil Gaiman wrote a script treatment based upon O'Donnell's novel, I, Lucifer. So far, nothing has come of these plans. Tarantino "sponsored" the release of My Name Is Modesty by allowing it to be released under the label "Quentin Tarantino presents Ina direct-to- video film titled My Name Is Modesty was released. Although promoted as the first of a series, no others were made. One immediately noticeable difference between the film and the source material is that it is a prequel to Modesty's established backstory as a crime boss; as such, the character Modesty Blaise: Gallows Bird Willie Garvin is omitted. The film aired on the ABC Network to positive reviews, but no series resulted. This was a slightly more serious version of the stories than the campy comedy version. In this pilot the setting is moved from London to Hollywood, and both Willie and Tarrant are portrayed as Americans. A film entitled Modesty BlaiseModesty Blaise: Gallows Bird based on the comic strip, was filmed in as a comedy thriller. Peter O'Donnell wrote the first draft of the screenplay for the film, but the script was heavily revised by others before shooting began, and the finished film bore very little resemblance to O'Donnell's vision in tone, theme, or characterisation. For example, a romance is established between Willie and Modesty, even though the comic strip firmly established only a platonic relationship between them.