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1	!!The comic strip
2	* DiedDuringProduction: The original artist, Jim Holdaway, dropped dead suddenly in 1970, causing a lengthy period of rotating artists that lasted for much of the rest of the strip's run until Romero took over full-time.
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4	** The metafictional graphic novel ''Goldtiger'', by Guy Adams and Jimmie Broxton, is a blatant pastiche of the comic strip. In-universe, the comic strip ''Goldtiger'' is explicitly acknowledged as a rival publishing company's rip-off of ''Modesty Blaise''.
5	** In ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'', magical secret agent Penelope Hazard and her sidekick Johnny [=McTavish=] are unashamed [[CaptainErsatz Captains Ersatz]] for Modesty and Willie. Penelope's Laundry codename is [[ShoutOut BASHFUL INCENDIARY]].
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7	!!The novels
8	* EarlyDraftTieIn: The first novel is a novelisation of O'Donnell's script for the 1966 film, without the major subsequent changes of the finished movie.
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10	** In ''Film/PulpFiction'', the first novel is often read by Vincent Vega whenever he is heading to the toilet.
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12	!!The 1966 film
13	* ActingForTwo: In the 1966 film, Clive Revill plays both Sheikh Abu Tahir and Gabriel's accountant [=McWhirter=].
14	* CreatorKiller: The 1966 film killed off Monica Vitti's international career just as it was starting. From then on, she restricted her efforts to Italy.
15	* FakeBrit: In the 1966 film, the Minister is played by Canadian actor Alexander Knox, with a [[JustAStupidAccent Scots accent]].
16	* QuestionableCasting: The general reaction to the casting of Monica Vitti, a blonde Italian known for playing neurotic or languid middle-class types in arthouse movies, as the wiley, raven-haired, EXTREMELY British ActionGirl that Modesty is in the comics.
17	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Peter O'Donnell floated Barbara Steele as Modesty and Creator/MichaelCaine as Willy.[[note]]Ironically, Caine wound up taking the title role in ''Film/{{Alfie}}'', a role originally written for Creator/TerenceStamp.[[/note]]
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19	!!The 2004 film
20	* AshcanCopy: The 2004 direct-to-DVD film ''My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure'' is the cinema equivalent, a movie made quickly and cheaply to satisfy a contractual obligation and let the studio hold on to the film rights.

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