Modesty Blaise

Modesty Blaise
Cover of the first US printing of the Modesty Blaise novel
Author(s)	Peter O'Donnell
Illustrator(s)	Jim Holdaway, Enrique Badia Romero, John M. Burns, Patrick Wright, Neville Colvin, Dan Spiegle, Dick Giordano
Current status/schedule	Finished
Launch date	13 May 1963
End date	7 July 2002
Syndicate(s)	Hall Syndicate (1966–1967) Los Angeles Times Syndicate (1976–1980)[1]
Genre(s)	Adventure

Modesty Blaise is a British comic strip featuring a fictional character of the same name, created by author Peter O'Donnell and illustrator Jim Holdaway in 1963. The strip follows Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talents and a criminal past, and her trusty sidekick Willie Garvin. It was adapted into films in 1966, 1982, and 2003, and from 1965 onwards, 11 novels and two short-story collections were written.