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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 eleven novels and two short story collections were written.

Modesty Blaise

• Character Background
• Modesty’s Men
• Outdoor sports and activities
• Hobbies, skills and interests
• Music
• Languages

Willie Garvin

• Character traits, fate and portrayals
• Willie’s Girls (remembered)
• Willie's girls (recent and current)
• Willie's words
• Psalms, Saints, etc.
• Outdoor sports and activities
• Hobbies, skills and interests
• Music
• Languages

Peter O'Donnell

• Biography
• Death
• Bibliography
• Madeleine Brent

Novels

• Modesty Blaise (novel)
• Sabre-Tooth
• I, Lucifer
• A Taste for Death
• The Impossible Virgin
• Pieces of Modesty
• The Silver Mistress
• Last Day in Limbo
• Dragon´s Claw
• The Xanadu Talisman
• The Night of Morning Star
• Dead Man´s Handle
• Cobra Trap

Comic Strip

The information on these pages refers only to the novels, not to the comic strips.

Films

• Modesty Blaise (1966 film)
• Modesty Blaise (1982 film)
• My Name Is Modesty

Miscellaneous

Audio formats / In popular culture / Controversy / Racism / The Treadmill

Links

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Updates

Could be more often.

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