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 ...

For every comic that actually gets translated for release outside its original country, such as Valerian or Yoko Tsuno, there ...

Modesty Blaise was a young amnesiac that escaped from a displaced persons, or "DP" camp. in Kalyros, Greece. She had no knowledge of her life before. Alone, she roamed post-WWII North African, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Modesty Blaise - I, Lucifer and Dragon's Claw by Peter O'Donnell Souvenir Press both £8.99, pp318 The world of Modesty Blaise is a cat's cradle of action and plot. A strikingly attractive heroine, ...

Modesty, raised by a casino owner after being abandoned by her parents, has become skilled in the ways of fighting and now acts as the casino owner's bodyguard. When she's unable to prevent the ...

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 ...

More than miniskirts started to swing in the early 60s. Grimy old England needed some vivid action, too, and it arrived in an exhilarating rush. First, there was James Bond — not so much Fleming's ...