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Modesty Blaise Comic Strip

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34 livres
Publié de 1978 à 2017
Statut: Probablement terminée

About This Series

The Modesty Blaise Comic Strip series, created by the talented Peter O'Donnell, is a captivating blend of adventure, crime, and espionage that has enthralled readers since its inception. With a strong female protagonist at its center, Modesty Blaise navigates a world filled with danger, intrigue, and moral ambiguity, all while displaying a fierce independence and resilience that resonates with audiences. The tone is both sharp and witty, reflecting O'Donnell's masterful storytelling and character development.

This series is worth reading not just for its thrilling plots but also for its exploration of complex themes such as loyalty, justice, and the gray areas of morality. Modesty Blaise is not just a comic strip character; she embodies empowerment and cleverness, making this series ideal for readers who enjoy strong heroines and intricate narratives. Fans of classic adventure stories, graphic novels, and those who appreciate a good mix of action and intellect will find themselves engrossed in Modesty's escapades.

To fully appreciate the depth of this series, it's best to start with Book 1, "The Black Pearl," as it sets the stage for Modesty's character and the rich world she inhabits. While there are no prequels or direct spin-offs, each book builds upon the last, allowing readers to witness the evolution of both character and plot.

Although no thought leaders on GurusReads have specifically recommended this series yet, it's perfect for anyone who loves strong narratives filled with clever dialogue and bold characters. Whether you're a longtime comic strip enthusiast or new to the genre, the Modesty Blaise Comic Strip series promises an engaging reading experience that will leave you eager for more adventures.

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The Black Pearl

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Livre 1 par Peter O'Donnell • Publié en 1978

This collection gathers four mid 1960s newspaper strip adventures, including the title story, which sends Modesty and Willie into Tibet in search of a legendary jewel. High altitude treks, elaborate heists and a deadl...

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  1. 1
    The Black Pearl

    Livre 1:The Black Pearl

    Peter O'Donnell • 1978

    This collection gathers four mid 1960s newspaper strip adventures, including the title story, which sends Modesty and Willie into Tibet in search of a legendary jewel. High altitude treks, elaborate heists and a deadl...

  2. 2
    The Hell-Makers

    Livre 2:The Hell-Makers

    Peter O'Donnell • 1986

    Collecting three hard hitting storylines, this volume finds Modesty and Willie uncovering traitors inside British intelligence, derailing a violent coup attempt and confronting warlords who dream of carving out their...

  3. 3
    The Gabriel Set-Up

    Livre 3:The Gabriel Set-Up

    Peter O'Donnell • 1986

    Early strip adventures introduce Modesty's partnership with Willie and her uneasy dealings with Sir Gerald Tarrant. From intricate cons and rescues to first encounters with the diamond thief Gabriel, these stories lay...

  4. 4
    Death of a Jester

    Livre 4:Death of a Jester

    Peter O'Donnell • 1987

    In the title story, Modesty and Willie are drawn to an isolated English estate where an unhinged earl has turned his land into a mock medieval playground for his former commando unit. Rigged jousts, lethal pranks and...

  5. 5
    The Warlords of Phoenix

    Livre 5:The Warlords of Phoenix

    Peter O'Donnell • 1987

    When a private army begins drilling in the desert under the banner of Phoenix, Modesty suspects a plot far bigger than mercenary training. She and Willie infiltrate the warlords' hidden base, where experimental weapon...

  6. 6
    The Puppet Master

    Livre 6:The Puppet Master

    Peter O'Donnell • 1987

    Best known for its chilling title arc, this collection sees Modesty kidnapped by a vengeful criminal who plans to brainwash her into murdering Willie Garvin. As Willie refuses to believe she is dead, their separate in...

  7. 7
    Uncle Happy

    Livre 7:Uncle Happy

    Peter O'Donnell • 1990

    Two complete 1960s capers feature Uncle Happy, a genial seeming gangster with lethal habits, and Bad Suki, a damaged young woman whose talent for trouble is almost unmatched. Modesty and Willie navigate crime families...

  8. 8
    The Iron God

    Livre 8:The Iron God

    Peter O'Donnell • 1996

    When a small plane crash leaves Modesty, Willie and friends stranded in the jungle, they stumble into the camp of brutal diamond thieves who worship an idol they call the Iron God. Cut off from help, they must improvi...

  9. 9
    Live Bait

    Livre 9:Live Bait

    Peter O'Donnell • 2002

    This late period collection brings together three newspaper stories in which Modesty and Willie protect a child courier, tangle with a suave operator known as Milord and finally act as irresistible live bait to draw o...

  10. 10
    Lady in the Dark

    Livre 10:Lady in the Dark

    Peter O'Donnell • 2003

    In these three adventures, Modesty helps a young woman who insists she is from the future, tracks a traitor buried deep inside a security project and faces the return of the espionage group Salamander Four, whose new...

  11. 11
    Mister Sun

    Livre 11:Mister Sun

    Peter O'Donnell • 2004

    After crossing a Hong Kong crime boss, Modesty is forced to choose between keeping her word and saving lives as the Vietnam War rages around her. The title story pushes her into jungle firefights, improvised rescues a...

  12. 12
    Top Traitor

    Livre 12:Top Traitor

    Peter O'Donnell • 2004

    Gathering three classic strips, this volume has Modesty ripping through her own organisation to uncover a spy, doing battle with homicidal Norsemen and crossing claws with a pride of schoolgirls turned feral criminals...

  13. 13
    Bad Suki

    Livre 13:Bad Suki

    Peter O'Donnell • 2005

    The title sequence follows Suki, a fragile seeming young drifter whose apparent innocence hides a gift for chaos. Modesty takes an interest in saving her, only to find herself and Willie pulled into a web of kidnapper...

  14. 14
    The Green-Eyed Monster

    Livre 14:The Green-Eyed Monster

    Peter O'Donnell • 2005

    Three stories see Willie playing guardian djinn to a deposed ruler's daughter, Modesty dealing with a jealous ambassador's child whose spite turns dangerous and the pair confronting a deranged earl who has turned his...

  15. 15
    The Gallows Bird

    Livre 15:The Gallows Bird

    Peter O'Donnell • 2006

    Here Modesty investigates a modern Bluebeard who marries and murders wealthy women, teams with the FBI in New Orleans to unmask a killer nicknamed the Gallows Bird and goes up against criminals whose outward respectab...

  16. 16
    Cry Wolf

    Livre 16:Cry Wolf

    Peter O'Donnell • 2006

    Named for a strip in which Modesty and Willie answer a mysterious distress call in the Scottish Highlands, this collection of 1970s adventures blends political intrigue, kidnap plots and eerie local legends with the s...

  17. 17
    The Inca Trail

    Livre 17:The Inca Trail

    Peter O'Donnell • 2007

    This bumper volume sends Modesty stumbling from an innocent babysitting job into a mob war, playing Cupid while hunting a killer, surviving gladiatorial games arranged by a vengeful ex lover and finally trekking the I...

  18. 18
    Death Trap

    Livre 18:Death Trap

    Peter O'Donnell • 2007

    Three edgy tales see Modesty and Willie lured into an attempted Eastern European coup, tracking a ring of human traffickers preying on young women and infiltrating a drug syndicate that thinks its remote junkyard base...

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    Yellowstone Booty

    Livre 19:Yellowstone Booty

    Peter O'Donnell • 2008

    Set in the late 1970s, this collection sends Modesty after Native American treasure in Yellowstone, pairs her with a wily con man in Idaho George and plunges her into the Cambodian jungle in The Golden Frog, where an...

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    Green Cobra

    Livre 20:Green Cobra

    Peter O'Donnell • 2008

    These strips pit Modesty and Willie against a mysterious assassin called the Green Cobra, throw them into a twisted Adam and Eve themed commune and uncover a secret brotherhood using Modesty's own name as a banner for...

  21. 21
    The Lady Killers

    Livre 21:The Lady Killers

    Peter O'Donnell • 2009

    Moving into the Neville Colvin era, this volume finds Modesty sifting through a deadly intelligence file nicknamed Pluto, tracking a female led hit squad whose glamour masks psychopathic violence and following Willie...

  22. 22
    The Scarlet Maiden

    Livre 22:The Scarlet Maiden

    Peter O'Donnell • 2009

    Three globe trotting plots unfold as Modesty confronts a hijacker known as the Scarlet Maiden, investigates a sinister figure called the Moonman and helps an old soldier friend whose past explodes into the present in...

  23. 23
    Death in Slow Motion

    Livre 23:Death in Slow Motion

    Peter O'Donnell • 2009

    Modesty and Willie race a ticking clock across desert sands to save an old friend and his daughter, find themselves playing castaways while sabotaging a Caribbean drug pipeline and go up against a coolly efficient ass...

  24. 24
    Sweet Caroline

    Livre 24:Sweet Caroline

    Peter O'Donnell • 2010

    In the title arc, Modesty infiltrates an international assassins guild that has targeted one of her allies. She and Willie then chase Russian agents who steal a beloved circus elephant and finally face extortionists t...

  25. 25
    The Double Agent

    Livre 25:The Double Agent

    Peter O'Donnell • 2011

    This volume spotlights three later newspaper stories the kidnapping of the French intelligence chief, a clash with a fanatical cult devoted to Kali and a caper where a woman impersonating Modesty throws both the autho...

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    Million Dollar Game

    Livre 26:Million Dollar Game

    Peter O'Donnell • 2011

    Bringing together a run of late Modesty Blaise newspaper adventures, this collection centres on a contest dubbed the Million Dollar Game, where greed, elaborate traps and shifting alliances test Modesty and Willie in...

  27. 27
    The Girl in the Iron Mask

    Livre 27:The Girl in the Iron Mask

    Peter O'Donnell • 2013

    Three linked tales follow Willie's irrepressible young admirer Fiona, a perilous solo trek Modesty makes through the Australian outback and a final nightmare in which she is held captive behind an iron mask while her...

  28. 28
    The Young Mistress

    Livre 28:The Young Mistress

    Peter O'Donnell • 2013

    This collection showcases Modesty's later collaborations with Maude Tiller and other recurring allies. From protecting a headstrong young woman caught in criminal crossfire to uncovering art thefts and rescuing fellow...

  29. 29
    The Grim Joker

    Livre 29:The Grim Joker

    Peter O'Donnell • 2014

    Moving into the 1990s strips, Modesty and Willie face a sadistic prankster whose jokes kill, accept a mysterious gift that drags them back into Network business and play a long game of chess with a mastermind who trea...

  30. 30
    The Killing Distance

    Livre 30:The Killing Distance

    Peter O'Donnell • 2015

    Collecting several mid 1990s storylines, The Killing Distance highlights the strip's later style, with Modesty and Willie navigating shifting alliances, long range assassination plots and operations where their usual...

  31. 31
    Ripper Jax

    Livre 31:Ripper Jax

    Peter O'Donnell • 2015

    This later volume reprints a sequence of newspaper adventures built around a ruthless operator dubbed Ripper Jax and other hard edged villains. The stories lean into darker humour, global travel and the easy shorthand...

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    The Murder Frame

    Livre 32:The Murder Frame

    Peter O'Donnell • 2016

    Four final era stories see Modesty framed for murder, repaying an old debt in Fraser's Story, navigating an archaeological caper in Tribute to the Pharaoh and carrying out Special Orders that put her and Willie direct...

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    The Children of Lucifer

    Livre 33:The Children of Lucifer

    Peter O'Donnell • 2017

    Here Modesty and Willie first try to save a young woman from a vengeful ex judge turned vigilante, then stumble into a skiing holiday that hides a Satanist cult with mob connections and finally join old allies to resc...

  34. 34
    The Killing Game

    Livre 34:The Killing Game

    Peter O'Donnell • 2017

    In the strip's closing run, Modesty and Willie help lovable rogue Guido the Jinx survive a wedding targeted by bio terrorists, become quarry in a grotesque big game hunt that treats humans as sport and rescue an old N...

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FAQ Modesty Blaise Comic Strip

Quel est le meilleur ordre pour lire la série Modesty Blaise Comic Strip ?

L'ordre de lecture recommandé est l'ordre numéroté affiché sur cette page, en commençant par The Black Pearl.

Combien de livres y a-t-il dans la série Modesty Blaise Comic Strip ?

Il y a 34 livres actuellement répertoriés dans la série Modesty Blaise Comic Strip sur GurusReads.

Par où dois-je commencer la série Modesty Blaise Comic Strip ?

Les nouveaux lecteurs devraient commencer par The Black Pearl, le premier livre de l'ordre de lecture.

La série Modesty Blaise Comic Strip est-elle terminée ?

D'après les années de publication dont nous disposons, la série semble probablement terminée et s'étend sur des publications allant de 1978 to 2017.