Links

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Modesty Blaise Sites

  • Jim Pattison's The Complete Modesty Blaise Dossier has more information on the books, including a Concordance where you can look up any name from the entire book series (a staggering amount of work!)

  • Vidar Nakling's Modesty Blaise Overview provides a good overview of the books and characters.

  • Kent Hedlundh's Modesty Blaise Page has information on the books and comics, as well as some great (and exclusive!) interviews with Peter O'Donnell.

  • Rennie Petersen's Modesty Blaise MSN site is wonderfully comprehensive: summaries of the books, information on Peter O'Donnell, quotations, Willie Garvin's psalms and 'girl stories', and even photos of a real kongo!

  • There is a fount of information from Peter O'Donnell himself at the Modesty Blaise Ltd. site.

  • Laurie Blackmore's The Modesty Blaise Companion is a vast book of Modesty Blaise character information that any die-hard Modesty Blaise fan will want to own.

  • Peter Friedrich's Sayyide.de is an extensive German site with many of the pages also provided in English.

  • Karl-Heinz Herrmann's site contains a vast amount of graphics, including images of some beautiful oil paintings by Holdaway (one of the MB cartoon artists).

  • There is some good summary information on Modesty Blaise (the books, the comics, and Peter O'Donnell) at Wikipedia.

  • The Woo Factor provides another good, succinct summmary.

  • Penguin Books India has a Modesty Blaise micro website for their new reprint of the series. (They have also reprinted the entire Madeleine Brent series, and are in the process of reprinting the entire series of Garth comic strips, Peter O'Donnell's first comic strip.)

  • There is an article that investigates where Holdaway may have got his inspiration for Modesty at The Rules of Attraction.

    Related Sites

  • If you're interested in knowing more about the Madeleine Brent series (Peter O'Donnell's historical romances, written under a pseudonym) My Little Book Garden has an extremely comprehensive set of pages devoted to these, with summaries of each book and a collection of all the covers.

  • There are some scans of artwork by Michael Codd, the cover artist of the Souvenir Press editions, on Steve Holland's Bear Alley blog.

  • Here's one interesting little tidbit I happened to stumble across, about "the lost strips" of Frank Hampson.


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    Booksellers

  • Ken Pierce Books has Modesty Blaise comics for sale.

  • Titan Books has released many beautiful, book-format reprints of the comics.

  • Vintage Paperbacks is a great resource for collectors of vintage fiction.

  • The Collectible Detective provides thousands of links to vintage and antiquarian books.

  • The books and reprints of the comics are also available for sale through:
    Abe Books
    Ebay
    and Amazon. If you follow any of the links below before you shop on Amazon, you will be contributing to this site, which is appreciated.

    Amazon.ca Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk Amazon.de

     

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