Modesty Blaise

All pictures (except the colored Miranda) and info on this page is taken from the introductions by the author Peter O'Donnell for the Dutch hardcover editions of the stories 21 (The Death of a Jester) to story 44 (Brethren of Blaise).

Peter O'Donnell also wrote a dozen novels about Modesty Blaise which are published in several languages. In 1966 there was a movies starring Monica Vitti as Modesty and Terrence Stamp as Willy.

One of the problems for Peter O'Donnell was to describe for Romero how the fighting scenes should look. In order to do it proper Peter asked the Olympic champions Brian Jacks and Christine Child to demonstrate some moves in combat and defense. He then took pictures and sent these to Romero. Some of these pictures has survived.
The man on the first picture is actually Peter O'Donnell.

Peter O'Donnell tried to find original locations for his plots. Several miles in sea near the Thames there are these steel armed fortresses, build during the war. O'Donnell hired a boat and took some pictures of them and from these pictures Romero turned them in to this artwork where the action took place in With Love From Rufus

For one reason or another, Modesty was called in The Netherlands Miranda until the deluxe hardcover edition 1997.

The series had sometimes scenes that were censored in some countries. They were too hot, too spicy. Too outrageous piquant. Down here you see how a screen had to be placed between Modesty and Willie and how Modesty had to put on a T-shirt. From The Junk-Man

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