Modesty Blaise: The Jericho Caper, The Killing Ground, Bad Suki
O'Donnell, Peter and Jim Holdaway
Softcover. Park Forest IL, Ken Pierce, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages illustrated in b&w by Holdaway. Clean, bright copy. Modesty Blaise is a fictional character in a comic strip of the same name created by Peter O'Donnell (writer) and Jim Holdaway (art) in 1963. The strip follows the adventures of Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talents and a criminal past, and her trusty sidekick Willie Garvin. Many critics see the early years of the strip as a classic of adventure comic strips. The novels are regarded by some as being among the classics of adventure fiction. Modesty Blaise debuted in the London Evening Standard on May 13, 1963. The strip was syndicated among a large number of newspapers ranging from the Johannesburg Star to the Detroit Free Press, the Bombay Samachar, The Telegraph, (Calcutta, India), The Star (Malaysia), The West Australian (Perth, Australia) and The Evening Citizen (Glasgow, Scotland).
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