EXTRACTS: The Modesty Blaise Companion Expanded Edition © 2018 The Book Palace (425 PAGES in Full edition)

T H E M O D E S T Y B L A I S E C O M P A N I O N I I OPPERMAN STORY 14A “THE KILLING GROUND” STRIP A4 Professional big game hunter, one of the three killers hired by Bellman to hunt down and kill Modesty and Willie on the uninhabited Scottish island he has rented just for that purpose. Even having been given the advantage of them having radio bugged weapons and he having signal direction finding equipment he is still outwitted and overpowered. ORTIZ, Bishop STORY 65: “MILORD” TEXT ONLY STRIP 6943 Name of the new Bishop of San Felipe in Guarengo made up by Modesty in order to expose Lamont as a false priest. ORTIZ, Carmen STORY 36: “THE VANISHING DOLLYBIRDS”: STRIP 4137 The younger sister of Dolores, sold into the white slave trade by Major Ham i l t o n and the reason her sister is causing all the fuss. At Modes t y ’s request she is located and bought back from her current owner by her friend Sheik Kadhim al-Masfah. Returned to England she is at her dying sisters bedside. She returns to her owner at her own request because she likes the life. ORTIZ, Dolores STORY 36: “THE VANISHING DOLLYBIRDS”: STRIP 4035 Older sister of Carmen and the target in “The Fantastic Ramon & Dolores” knife throwing act in Gogol’s Circus. When she goes to see Major Hamilton in her attempts to find her sister, he engages Bubbles to murder her. She is thrown over a railway bridge from the back of a motorbike by one of Bubbles gang. Lives just long enough to be reunited with her sister. ORTIZ MOB, The STORY 83: “THE MAORI CONTRACT” TEXT ONLY STRIP 8814 The mob the Colombian fixer Diaz worked for before going freelance OSMANI STORY 1: “LA MACHINE” TEXT ONLY STRIP 26 Rival gang leader in Shirref who had his neck broken by Modesty while he was torturing Willie during their days in The Network. Willie still has the scar and it still hurts a bit in cold weather. STORY 34: “THOSE ABOUT TO DIE” TEXT ONLY STRIP 3883A Kidnapped Claudine when she was sixteen and working for The Network. Claudine was rescued by Willie. OSMENA STORY 811: “THE ARISTO” TEXT ONLY STRIP 8592 When Willie tells Sammy Wan that he and Modesty are going on to Manilla to see him on their regular tour of Network disability pensioners Sammy asks Willie to say hello for him. OTTO STORY 7: “TOP TRAITOR” TEXT ONLY STRIP 802 One of Graf von Schuyler’s huntsmen at his estate near Storgen. He is concerned for the safety of his master when Waldemar tries to shoot him but his concern is dismissed with a demand for his hat and the offer of the greatest sport, a man hunt. 122 Drawn by Jim Holdaway Strip A14 Not published in the Evening Standard Glasgow Evening Citizen 22nd October, 1968 Drawn by RomeroStrip 4140 25th March, 1977 Drawn by Romero Strip 4064 6th December, 1976