In the 1960s, Modesty Blaise was a mod adventuress in the vein of James Bond and the Avengers who fought evil in the comics pages of British newspapers. This oversized volume collects strips from 1966 ...

Most intriguing from a character stand-point is the vampire tale, which introduces us to a former member of Modesty's old crime network, a techno wizard named Hans Braun who is married to Hilde, a ...

First, it’s important to get the name straight, as they do in Joseph Losey’s 1966 movie: it’s not “blezz” (as in “Blaise Pascal”), it’s “blaze” (as in beware). “Modesty Blaise” is based on a comic ...

After reviewing 2004's My Name is Modesty and listening to two Modesty Blaise radio adventures, I decided to take a look at the 1966 film, in spite of its bad reputation. The premise and core plot ...

For a vidpic filmed in 18 days by a helmer hired scarcely a week before the start of principal photography, "My Name Is Modesty" isn't half-bad. This mildly diverting time-killer focuses on the early ...

She's glamorous, intelligent, rich and very, very cool. Modesty Blaise has been called the female James Bond but she's much more interesting than that. With her expertise in martial arts and unusual ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it.

Peter O’Donnell, the British writer who created Modesty Blaise, the sexy, resourceful action hero who was a distaff answer to James Bond, first as a comic strip character and later as the heroine of ...

Reading the 17th volume of comic strip reprints, Modesty Blaise: Death in Slow Motion (Titan Books), I recalled a moment from Pulp Fiction where we see John Travolta’s hitman reading a hardbound copy ...

Modesty Blaise was a 1982 American-produced one-hour television pilot produced for the ABC Network and based upon the 1963-2001 comic strip Modesty Blaise, created by Peter O'Donnell. This was the ...

Modesty Blaise was my secret self the year I was 15, the subject of ardent daydreams and the first female character I encountered who was truly in charge of something other than a hospital ward, or a ...