Modesty Blaise | |
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Author(s) | Peter O'Donnell |
Illustrator(s) | Jim Holdaway, Enrique Badia Romero, John M. Burns, Patrick Wright, Neville Colvin, Dan Spiegle, Dick Giordano |
Current status/schedule | Finished |
Launch date | 13 May 1963 |
End date | 7 July 2002 |
Syndicate(s) | Hall Syndicate (1966–1967) Los Angeles Times Syndicate (1976–1980)[1] |
Genre(s) | Adventure |
Modesty Blaise is a British comic strip featuring a fictional character of the same name, created by author Peter O'Donnell and illustrator Jim Holdaway in 1963. The strip follows Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talents and a criminal past, and her trusty sidekick Willie Garvin. It was adapted into films in 1966, 1982, and 2003, and from 1965 onwards, 11 novels and two short-story collections were written.