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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Eclipse Comics characters, Eclipse Comics titles, Marvelman, Modesty Blaise, Groo the Wanderer, The Dirty Pair, Metamorphosis Odyssey, Spider, Espers, Zot!, Rocketeer, Twisted Tales, Black Terror, Airboy, Ms. Tree, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, Tales of the Beanworld, Alien Worlds, The Mysterious Traveler, Official DC Index, List of Eclipse Comics publications, Sabre, Detectives Inc., Brought to Light, James Bond, The New Wave, Star Reach, Scout, Destroyer Duck, The Liberty Project, Mr. Mystic, Fusion, Tor, Alien Encounters, Flare, AXA, Crossfire, Tapping the Vein, The DNAgents, Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters, Masked Man, Coyote, Sisterhood of Steel, Eclipse Monthly, Wynonna Earp, Eclipse Magazine, Aztec Ace, Total Eclipse, Prowler. 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 expanded it...