Modesty Blaise 23 - The Puppet Master
Modesty Blaise is a 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.
Having conceived the idea after a chance meeting with a girl during his
wartime service in the Middle East,[3] O'Donnell elected to work with
Jim Holdaway, with whom he had worked on the strip Romeo Brown, after a
trial period of collaboration with Frank Hampson, creator of Dan Dare,
left O'Donnell dissatisfied. Modesty Blaise debuted in the London
Evening Standard on May 13, 1963.[2] 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).