As dangerous as she is desirable, Modesty Blaise — former criminal mastermind, now an international adventuress — is a classic newspaper strip icon! In this fifth volume, Modesty takes on her most hated opponents – drug dealers; becomes a galley slave for pirates; and avenges the murder of an old friend! This book also includes an appreciation of artist Jim Holdaway by legendary illustrator Walt Simonson, exclusive chapter introductions, and rare artwork!

Modesty Blaise, cult creation of best-selling author Peter O’Donnell, is back! The adventures of this all-round bad girl and spy are now collected in a luscious Collectors’ Edition paperback library! Thrown into searing hotbeds of intrigue, and up against impossible odds, Modesty Blaise proves once and for all that the female of the species is deadlier than the male. With her trusted right-hand man, Willie Garvin, and the underworld resources of ‘The Network’ on tap, no job is too big, no threat too great!

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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 Modesty Blaise 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 characters past and world. This volume contains an introduction by comics illustrator Walt Simonson (Thor, Alien) on artist Jim Holdaway, a feature on the romance novels by writer ‘Madeleine Brent’, previously unseen artwork, new story introductions by O’Donnell, a story checklist and bonus stories The Galley Slaves and The Red Gryphon.

No man is safe from the fatal charms of Modesty Blaise, not even drug dealers! In Bad Suki our chic secret agent and her right-hand man Willie Garvin help a young girl battle drug addiction. Modesty’s obsessive hatred towards drug dealers leads her down the grimmest levels of criminal purgatory to exact what she feels is justice. But who or what is a “bad suki” and what will be the cost in lives to find out? Including stories The Galley Slaves and The Red Gryphon this is another 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. Although since his death in 1970, Holdaway’s most famous work will always be Modesty Blaise, a 1960s cultural and female icon that still inspires today.

“These are the finest escapist thrillers ever written…it is wonderful that the books are being reissued, that Modesty Blaise is back.” – The Times

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

“It’s astonishing how much detail and dynamism are packed into those three-panel gunshots of style that conjure a sleek, shadowed world of intrigue and glamour.” – SFX Magazine

Classics · Modesty Blaise
Volume 5 in the series · Collects Bad Suki, The Galley Slaves, The Red Gryphon