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Modesty Blaise: Top Traitor (Modesty Blaise (Graphic Novels))

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When I was a kid I couldn't wait for fridays to go buy my favourite magazine so I can read the comics strips. My favourite character was way cool Modesty Blaise. I a happy that I found her again. Happy reading

This compilation of Mosdesty strips is highly entertaining, and for Modesty fans, the interviews and Introductions by Peter O'Donnell are worth the price alone. Great fun and proof that comics are not just for kids.

This book reproduces the daily Modesty Blaise comic strips that cover three story lines. First, a high goverment official is kidnapped in a way that makes his disappearance look like defection. The next, The Viking, pits Blaise and her partner Willy Garvin against a modern-day raider and pirate. In the last story, Blaise and Garvin track murder and secrets with military potential to a school for - well, find out for yourself.

Blaise is a Jane Bond kid of spy character, living comfortably on in retirement from a shady past. As a free-lance, she and Garvin can go places and do things that legal agents can't. She's also deeply loyal to her friends, a fact that drives the plots of the first two stories. Not just interesting (if comic-ish) stories, these B&W comics are also records of their times. Blaise, of course, is a beautiful woman, built to a `60s view of beauty that has since passed out of fashion. Blaise is also the spiritual mother of later spy-babe characters, down to the current day.

In themselves or as records of their time, they're good illustrated stories. Enjoy!

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