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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.

Links

Many pages about Modesty Blaise have already disappeared - too bad I never got to see most of them.

Links, online

• MODESTY BLAISE and WILLIE GARVIN - background and - lists by John Higgins

• sayyide.de

• Rogers Magasin

• Peter O'Donnell: Girl Walking, The Real Modesty Blaise

• »Ich bin ein Geschichtenerzähler, ein Unterhalter.« Peter O’Donnell im Interview mit Thomas Wörtche

• Michael Kleeberg: Modesty Blaise – die letzte Amazone

• Peter O’Donnell: Modesty Blaise - Wie alles anfing

• Zum Tod von Peter O'Donnell

• Peter O’Donnell’s website

• Das Vermächtnis einer Lady

• Modesty Blaise PDF auf alliteratus.com

• Enric Badia Romero‘s website - the homepage of Enrique Badia Romero, who drew most of the Modesty Blaise comics. He died on February 15, 2024. I didn't like his way of portraying Modesty like a pin-up girl.

• Modeste Blaise News - Last Update 2018

• Gender, Race and Sexuality in Peter O’Donnell’s Modesty Blaise Novels (PDF)

Links, offline

• Modesty Blaise Concordance - this was an excellent "Modesty Blaise from A to Z" - unfortunately gone without notice.

• The wonderful world of Modesty Blaise - the Fan Site - according to sayyide.de, probably the oldest Modesty Blaise website by Kent Hedlundh: Here you could find the most important information about Modesty Blaise in a nutshell. There were lists of the comics and books (in various languages), exclusive interviews with Peter O'Donnell and much more.

• Tart Emeritus: Modesty Blaise (Tart City)

• Modesty Blaise Soundtrack

• Finnish Modesty Blaise Page

• Suzanne Axelssons Modesty Page - a swedish Modesty Blaise page

• The Modesty Blaise Book Covers - in english, by Helen Evans. According to sayyide.de, probably the most complete collection of all covers of the international Modesty Blaise editions, audio plays for download and much, much more!

• Vidar Nakling's Modesty Blaise pages - « Once upon a time I had som quite comprehensive listes of MB details on the web. These were hosted by a free ISP and subsequently deleted by same. »

More Links?

• Please send them to me: mastodon@modestymaise.net or contact me via mastodon: @kinoMUC@modestymaise.com
• Thank you very much!