Old-fashioned Comics: Peter O'Donnell

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Wednesday, 10 May 2023

Thriller Comics Library.- #044 King of Sherwood #045 The Count of Monte Cristo #046 Paul Clifford (IPC 1953 Series)

Thriller Comics Library

Publisher: IPC

Publication Dates: November 1953 - 5 February 1957

Number of Issues Published: 122 (#41 - #162)

Color: Colour cover; black and white interior

Dimensions: Digest

Binding: Squarebound

Publishing Format: was ongoing

Publication Type: magazine

68 pages - Indicia Frequency: The First Thursday in Each Month

Numbering continues from Thriller Comics (IPC, 1951 series) #40

Numbering continues with Thriller Picture Library (IPC, 1957 series) #163

King of Sherwood

IPC, 1953 Series

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : James E. McConnell (painting)

King of Sherwood (Robin Hood)

Script: ?? - Pencils & Inks: John McNamara

The Outlaw Traitor (Robin Hood)

Script: ?? - Pencils & Inks: Selby Donnison

TRobin Hood's Prank(Robin Hood)

Script: ?? - Pencils & Inks: Cecil Langley Doughty

Once again, Robin Hood and his Merry Men

of Sherwood ride forth to battle with keen wits

and flashing swords against the Norman

oppressors of the Saxon people.

The Count of Monte Cristo

IPC, 1953 Series

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : Sep E. Scott (painting)

Script:

Alexandre Dumas (original story); Peter O'Donnell (adaptation)

Pencils:

W. Heath Robinson

Inks:

W. Heath Robinson; Patrick Nicolle (faces)

Victor Hugo's exciting story of Edmond Dantes’

sensational escape from the dreaded Chateau D'If

prison and of his discovery of the fabulous Monte.

Paul Clifford

IPC, 1953 Series

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : D. C. Eyles (painting)

Paul Clifford: A Tale of the King's Highway

Script

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (credited) (original story); ? (adaptation)

Pencils & Inks : Robert Forrest

Lord Lytton’s thrilling tale of the nameless boy who
grew up to be the leader of a desperate band of
highwaymen and who was re-united with his noble
father under dramatic circumstances.

Thriller Comics.- #007 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves - #008 Dick Turpin - #009 Hunted on the Highway - #010 Robin Hood (IPC 1951 Series)

Thriller Comics

Publisher: IPC

Publication Dates: November 1951 – 1953

Number of Issues Published: 40 (#1 – #40)

Color: Colour cover; black and white interior

Dimensions: Digest

Binding: Squarebound

Publishing Format: was ongoing

Publication Type: magazine

68 pages - Indicia Frequency: The First Thursday in Each Month

Numbering continues with Thriller Comics Library (IPC, 1953 series) #41

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

IPC, 1951 Series

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : Philip Mendoza

Script: Peter O'Donnell - Pencils & Inks: Philip Mendoza

Dick Turpin

IPC, 1951 Series

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : ??

The Fake Dick Turpin (Dick Turpin)

The Turk of Calzedo (Dick Turpin)

The Rogues' Round-Up (Dick Turpin)

Script: ?? - Pencils & Inks: Hugh McNeill

Hunted on the Highway

IPC, 1951 Series

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : D. C. Eyles

Hunted on the Highway (Dick Turpin)

Script: Leonard Matthews - Pencils & Inks: H. M. Brock; D. C. Eyles (page 1)

Robin Hood

IPC, 1951 Series

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : ??

Script, Pencils & Inks: ??

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Thriller Comics.- #004 Robin Hood - #005 Gulliver's Travels - #006 Swords of the Musketeers (IPC 1951 Series)

Thriller Comics

Publisher: IPC

Publication Dates: November 1951 – 1953

Number of Issues Published: 40 (#1 – #40)
Color: Colour cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: Digest
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing

Publication Type: magazine

68 pages - Indicia Frequency: The First Thursday in Each Month

Numbering continues with Thriller Comics Library (IPC, 1953 series) #41

#004 Robin Hood

IPC, Dec 6, 1951

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : ??

Robin Hood and the Sheriff's Ransom

Pencils & Inks: : Philip Mendoza

Robin Hood and the Phantom Knight

Pencils & Inks: : Philip Mendoza

Robin Hood and the Tyrant Earl

Pencils & Inks: : D. C. Eyles

#005 Gulliver's Travels

IPC, Jan 1952

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : Philip Mendoza

Script: Jonathan Swift (original story); Peter O'Donnell (adaptation)

Pencils & Inks: Donnison

#006 Swords of the Musketeers

IPC, Jan 3, 1952

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : ??

The Chateau of a Thousand Pillars (The Three Musketeers)

The Wolves of Zarkoff! (The Three Musketeers)

The Siege of Castle Varonne (The Three Musketeers)

Sript, pencils & Inks: ??

Modesty Blaise 51-96 (Peter O'Donnell et alii) Strips

Author: Peter O'Donnell

Illustrators: Jim Holdaway, Enrique Badía Romero, John M. Burns,

Patrick Wright, Neville Colvin, Dan Spiegle, Dick Giordano

Current status/schedule : Finished

Launch date 13 May 1963 End date 7 July 2002

Syndicate(s) Hall Syndicate (1966–1967)

Los Angeles Times Syndicate (1976–1980)

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Modesty Blaise 00-50 (Peter O'Donnell et alii) Strips

Author: Peter O'Donnell

Illustrators: Jim Holdaway, Enrique Badía Romero, John M. Burns,

Patrick Wright, Neville Colvin, Dan Spiegle, Dick Giordano

Current status/schedule : Finished

Launch date 13 May 1963 End date 7 July 2002

Syndicate(s) Hall Syndicate (1966–1967)

Los Angeles Times Syndicate (1976–1980)

Modesty Blaise is a British comic strip featuring a fictional character of the same name, created by author Peter O’Donnell and illustrator Jim Holdaway in 1963. 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 1966, 1982, and 2003, and from 1965 onwards eleven novels and two short story collections were written.

In 1945, a nameless girl escapes from a displaced person (DP) camp in Kalyros, Greece. She remembers nothing from her short past and wanders through post-World War II Mediterranean, the Middle East, and regions of North Africa, where she learns to survive the hard way. She befriends Lob, another wandering refugee who is a Jewish Hungarian scholar from Budapest. He gives her an education and a first name: Modesty. Sometime later Modesty creates her last name, Blaise, after Merlin’s tutor from the Arthurian legends. When Lob dies is unclear, other than it being prior to her going to Tangier. In ‘The Xanadu Tailisman’ it is mentioned that Modesty has left Lob at a village to recover from a wound; she goes alone to sell a car tyre. In 1953 she takes control of a criminal gang in Tangier from Henri Louche and expands it into an international organization called the Network. modesty02

Having conceived the idea after a chance meeting with a girl during his wartime service in the Middle East, O’Donnell elected to work with Jim Holdaway, with whom he had worked on the strip Romeo Brown, after a trial period of collaboration with Frank Hampson, creator of Dan Dare, left O’Donnell dissatisfied. Modesty Blaise debuted in the London Evening Standard on 13 May 1963. The strip was syndicated among a large number of newspapers ranging from the Johannesburg Star to the Detroit Free Press, the Bombay Samachar, The Telegraph (Calcutta, India), The Star (Malaysia), The West Australian (Perth) and The Evening Citizen (Glasgow, Scotland).

After Jim Holdaway’s death in 1970, the art of the strip was provided by the Spanish artist Enrique Badía Romero. Eight years later, Romero quit to make time for his own comics projects, and after short attempts by John Burns and Patrick Wright, Neville Colvin drew the strip until 1986. Then Romero returned to the job and continued until the end of the strip.

modesty05 The strip’s circulation in the United States was erratic, in part because of the occasional nude scenes, which were much less acceptable in the US than elsewhere, resulting in a censored version of the strip being circulated. (Modesty occasionally used a tactic that she called the “Nailer,” in which she would appear topless, distracting the bad guys long enough to give Willie or herself a chance to incapacitate them.) An example of this censorship appears in the introduction to the 2007 Titan Books reprint volume Death Trap, which illustrated two segments of the story arc, “The Junk Men” that were censored by the Detroit Free Press when it published the strip in 1977; in both cases a screen was drawn over scantily-clad images of Willie and Modesty. Reportedly, O’Donnell did not approve of the changes, although they were made by the artist, Romero.

The final Modesty Blaise strip ran in the Evening Standard on 11 April 2001. Some of the newspapers that carried the series, feeling that it had become a tradition for their readers, began running it again from the beginning. O’Donnell, to give Romero some additional work, gave the artist permission to adapt one of his short stories (“The Dark Angels”) as a graphic novel that was published in Scandinavia in 2002, later being reprinted in the US in a special issue of Comics Revue. modesty07

From 1 December 2008, the Evening Standard, which had stopped including comic strips for some time, republished La Machine, using the original artwork. Following a change of ownership of the paper, they did not continue with subsequent stories.

The ordinary strips are consecutive numbered from 1 to 10183. Outside this numbering are the two newspaper stories “In the Beginning” and “The Killing Ground” and the two comic book stories “Modesty Blaise” and “The Dark Angels”.

Outside the ordinary numbering is also an amount of A-strips. An A-strip has the same number as the previous strip but followed by an A. They were used on days when not all the newspapers running Modesty Blaise were published. An A-strip is not vital for the continuity of the story and is often just supplementing the previous strip.
The first A-strip was 194A and was published during Christmas 1963 in Scottish newspapers.

Since December 1974 The Evening Standard has not been published on Saturdays. So, since then, and the story “Cry Wolf”, a sixth of the strips have been A-strips and have not had their premiere in The Evening Standard.

https://newspapercomicstripsblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/05/modesty-blaise/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modesty_Blaise

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Romeo Brown (8 stories) - Mazure, Peter O'Donnell & Jim Holdaway + 2 albums in French Version

Creative team

Written by Alfred Mazure, Peter O'Donnell

Artists: Alfred Mazure, Jim Holdaway

Romeo Brown was a British comic strip published in the Daily Mirror from 1954 to 1962.

It was originally written and illustrated by Alfred Mazure, Mazure was replaced in 1957 by writer Peter O'Donnell and illustrator Jim Holdaway. It featured the adventures of Romeo Brown,

a dashing private detective and reluctant ladies' man. The strip was cancelled unexpectedly by then chairman of the group who, according to O'Donnell, said he couldn't understand it.

O'Donnell had by this time completed the next adventure and

Holdaway had illustrated the first 8 day's worth.

O'Donnell recalled in a 2002 interview: "This was a strip running in the tabloid Daily Mirror,

for which I was writing "Garth". The editor was dissatisfied so he engaged

Jim Holdaway to take over the drawing and asked me to write the scripts.

That's how Jim and I first met, and we ran the strip for seven years,

Romeo Brown was a comic private detective, and my brief was that every story was to revolve

around a girl or girls, and the more clothes I could safely get off them the better."

O'Donnell followed Romeo Brown with the comic strip Modesty Blaise in the Evening Standard, which Holdaway illustrated from its debut on 13 May 1963 until his death in 1970.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_Brown

https://britishcomics.fandom.com/wiki/Romeo_Brown

We offer 8 stories of the 39 published

Romeo Browm - The Admirals Grand-daughter
Romeo Brown - The Secret of Black Barbary
Romeo Brown - The Snow Maiden.
Romeo Brown - The King of the Bestniks.
Romeo Brown - Romeo the Ruthless.
Romeo Brown - The Arabian Knight.
Romeo Brown - The Frolics of Fifi.