She’s back in a Blaise of glory! From the pages of British newspaper The Evening Standard comes the global phenomenon and cult icon that is Modesty Blaise! Peter O’Donnell’s serialised comic strip featuring everyone’s favourite high-kicking, seductive super spy are reprinted here in new Collectors’ Library volumes. These classic stories are brought to the comic strip page by the highly talented writer/creator O’Donnell with illustrations by the equally talented artist Jim Holdaway. Expertly drawn and highly detailed, Modesty Blaise adventures are a nostalgic trip into the character's past and world. This volume contains a feature on the Modesty Blaise phenomenon, an article by creator Peter O’Donnell on the creation of the character, new story introductions by O’Donnell, a story checklist and bonus stories La Machine, The Long Lever and origin tale In the Beginning.

Ensnared in webs of intrigue and up against impossible odds Modesty Blaise has proven time and time again she can look after herself. In The Gabriel Set-Up, with trusted right-hand man Willie Garvin and the underworld resources of ‘The Network’ on tap, Modesty takes on every challenge from the skilled killers of La Machine to battling a cunning group of blackmailers. No job too big, no threat too great because as Modesty Blaise knows the female of the species is always deadlier than the male. Including stories La Machine, The Long Lever and In the Beginning this is a collection of exciting, action-packed adventures with a woman you don’t want to mess with!

Writer Peter O’Donnell is best known as the creator of Modesty Blaise but he was also a historical romance novelist with a total of nine novels credited under the pseudonym Madeleine Brent. Artist Jim Holdaway’s career began in advertising and but he then moved into freelance work drawing for Captain Vigour, The Football Comic, Steve Samson, Dick Hercules, Reveille, Tit-Bits, Comic Cuts, Junior Express and then Romeo Brown where he met Peter O’Donnell. Holdaway’s most famous work will always be Modesty Blaise, a 1960s cultural and female icon that still inspires today.

“I fell in love with Peter O’Donnell’s astonishing heroine, Modesty Blaise, when I was twelve. She was the smartest, wisest, most beautiful and most dangerous woman I had ever encountered.” – Neil Gaiman

“The strip’s longevity testifies to the enduring charm of Peter O’Donnell’s invention.” – Evening Standard

“In my time, I’ve been privileged to see some special and unmatchable collaborations between writer, artist and creation – Stan Lee and Jack Kirby on Fantastic Four, Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams on Batman. That same distinction holds for Mr. O’Donnell and Jim Holdaway.” – Chris Claremont

Classics · Modesty Blaise
Volume 1 in the series · Collects ?The Gabriel Set-Up?, ?La Machine?, ?The Long Lever? and ?In The Beginning?