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Modesty Blase Has Competed Her Assignment!

The never-reprinted 1994 graphic novel based on Peter O'Donnell's first Modesty Blaise book, which provided about as much a basis for the 1966 movie as Ian Fleming's Casino Royale did for the 1967 flick based on that novel began running last week!!

If you've missed any of the action (written by O'Donnell himself and illustrated by Dan Spiegle and Dick Giordano), here's the links at

Heroines & Crime and Punishment!
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Conclusion

We also finished re-presenting the tale of a superhero who travels from comic books to the real world in a short-lived and long-forgotten (almost 40 years ago) TV series finally gets the attention it deserves at 

Hero Histories & Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!
Part 1, Part 1.5, Part 2, Conclusion

With the movie Fantastic Four: First Flight finally incorporating the characters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we're presenting this long-OOP (almost a half-century) premiere prose novel (as compared to graphic novel) featuring both the protagonists and one of the antagonists of the flick by long-time comics scribe Marv Wolfman right here at

Atomic Kommie Comics & Seduction of the Innocent!

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9

Continue the Fantastic Saga on Monday, at Seduction of the Innocent!

And There's More to Come Next Week!

The RetroBlog Summer Blogathons are HERE...

Things are hitting fever pitch...

...as Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin rip apart Gabriel's criminal organization from within at Crime and Punishment and Heroines! in a tale that winds up this week!

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Meanwhile, the Fantastic Four began their prose novel career in a never-reprinted story from 1979 with a battle involving both science and magic against Doctor Doom both on this blog and Seduction of the Innocent!

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

And the tale of a superhero who travels from comic books to the real world in a short-lived and long-forgotten (almost 40 years ago) TV series finally gets the attention it deserves at Hero Histories and Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!

Part 1

Part 1.5

Will Captain Justice rescue the helpless reporter and hardboiled-gumshoe?

How, without super-powers, will he stop a well-armed crimelord?

And what does Stan (the Man) Lee have to do with any of this?

Tune In This Week!

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The RetroBlogs 2025 Summer Blogathons are Coming...

Starting July 1st, we're running several blogathons...

With Fantastic Four: First Flight finally incorporating the characters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we're presenting this long-OOP (almost a half-century) premiere prose novel (as compared to graphic novel) about them right here at

Atomic Kommie Comics

The legendary Man of Bronze takes on the Nazis at the 1936 Olympics as they put up an athlete who was trained from birth using the same techniques that Dr Clark Savage Sr used for Doc in this never-reprinted, almost 40 year-old extra-long comic!

Guest appearances by historical figures including Jesse Owens and Adolf (You Know Who)!

See the Nazi-Punching action at

Hero Histories and Medical Comics and Stories

Almost 40 years ago, there was a "high-concept" series about a tired, disillusioned comic book creator whose characters (a wholesome, upright superhero and hardboiled private detective) entered the real world!

With only seven episodes produced (four unaired), it's been largely-forgotten.

But there was a never-reprinted 2-issue adaptation of the pilot episode!

You'll see that at

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video

Here's a never-reprinted 1994 graphic novel based on Peter O'Donnell's first Modesty Blaise book, which provided about as much a basis for the 1966 movie as Ian Fleming's Casino Royale did for the 1967 flick based on that novel!

See what O'Donnell really intended at

Heroines!

And, of course, another entry in our "Beach Read" book-length gothic romance comic story series at

True Love Comics Tales

Stay cool...and kool...with

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this Summer!