About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: X-Men, Blueberry, Modesty Blaise, Fritz the Cat, Spider-Man in other media, The Family Circus, Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fred Basset, Genial Olivier, Little Annie Fanny, Old Master Q, Tumbleweeds, The Cloggies, Ben Casey, The Adventures of Champion, The Adventures of Pussycat, Willie Lumpkin, Zagor, Ziggy, The Lockhorns, The Born Loser, Redeye, Valentina, Boner's Ark, Spy vs. Spy, Theophilus, The Seekers, Tiger, Bobo, Wee Pals, Modesty Blaise Quarterly, Sam and Silo, Apartment 3-G, 13, Rue del Percebe, Animal Crackers, Nguyen Charlie, Frontiers of Science, Fishboy, Tales of the Green Beret, Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors, Sid's Snake, Akwas, Scarth A.D. 2195, Eek & Meek, Trudy, Odd Ball, Kolosso, Amy, Captain Kate, Berry's World, Art's Gallery. Excerpt: Modesty Blaise is a British comic strip featuring a fictional character 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. It was adapted into films made in 1966, 1982, and 2003 and a series of 13 novels and short story collections, beginning in 1965. In 1945, a nameless girl escaped from a displaced person (DP) camp in Kalyros, Greece. She did not remember anything from her short past. She wandered through post-World War II Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and North African regions, where she learned to survive the hard way. She befriended another wandering refugee, a Jewish Hungarian scholar from Budapest named Lob who gave her an education and a name: Modesty (Blaise she added herself later, after Merlin's tutor from the Arthurian legends). Lob died when Modesty was 12 years old. Eventually, in 1953, she took control of a criminal gang in Tangier from Henri Louche and expa...
