The Yellow "M" - Connections To Other Books

Connections To Other Books

• Although not named, the Prime Minister looks very much like Winston Churchill, who was PM at the time the story was first published. He also resembles Admiral Sir William Gray, leader of the British forces in The Secret of the Swordfish who was also based on Churchill.

• In Jacobs' own The Time Trap, Mortimer comes across an article from the 22nd century which erroneously credits him with the creation of Septimus' Telecephaloscope.

• In the post-Jacobs books written and drawn by various authors and artists, Chief Inspector Glenn Kendall reappears in both The Francis Blake Affair and The Voronov Plot; the latter also includes Calvin, Vernay and Macomber dinning together at the Centaur Club.

• In The Strange Encounter, Mortimer mentions the events of the Yellow "M", Septimus and the Mega Wave as part of explaining the function of a strange alien weapon which also affects the brain.

• In 2005 Dargaud published a parody entitled Menaces sur l'Empire ("The Empire Under Threat") which was a humorous presentation of the adventures of Blake and Mortimer and certainly not part of the canon. One scene included an almost panel-by-panel re-enactment of the Yellow "M" discreetly breaking into Blake and Mortimer's house. In this case however the heavily disguised intruder turns out to be Mortimer himself, making a desperate attempt to obtain a chicken from the fridge but being thwarted at gunpoint by Nasir who stands by his orders to enforce his master's diet by all means necessary.