Modesty Blaise is working as right-hand-woman for a casino owner in Tangiers, Morocco, being his eyes and ears at the tables, supervising staff, and working as a croupier if needed. When an armed gang ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Everybody raise the roof — Gal Gadot and “Wonder Woman” proved that a comic book blockbuster can feature a female superhero as its central character. Except that had already been proved in the late ...

I received a copy of Modesty Blaise: Sweet Caroline from Titan Books the other day. By the late Peter O'Donnell and Neville Colvin, it's a beautiful, wonderful series of action adventure, an effective ...

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 ...

In the days before over-hyped girl power, Britain had a liberated, independently minded action heroine as beautiful as she was deadly. Modesty Blaise is like the love child of James Bond and Emma Peel ...

Released in 1966, the adaptation of the Peter O'Donnell comic strip, Modesty Blaise, took the satire route to the existing template of mainstream cinema. Since the spy genre had become so ubiquitous ...

The latest entry in Titan Books' snazzy ongoing chronology of "Modesty Blaise" strips, Modesty Blaise: Live Bait places our full-lipped adventuress in the late eighties, fighting an old enemy from her ...

Modesty Blaise came out of the superspy craze of the 60s and no guessing what her influences were, but it’s a tribute to the enduring popularity of the characters that is was still running nearly ...