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 WU, Momma STORY 4: “MISTER SUN”: STRIP 404 Owner of a bar in the Wanchai district of Hong Kong. She has just told the police patrol that there are no troubles when Modesty starts a fight in order to be taken to jail so that she can get in touch with her friend Inspector Daunton without Mr. Sun knowing. Tells the police she has not drunk anything in her bar and she has never seen her before, both of her statements being true. WU, Mrs. – see KOLIN, Lucy STORY 64: “SAMANTHA AND THE CHERUB”: STRIP 6839 Pet name given to Lucy Kolin by the kids at St. Swithun’s Youth Club where she is a voluntary worker. WU SMITH – SEE SMITH, Wu WYATT, Dave STORY 37: “THE JUNK MEN”: STRIP 4205 Motor cycle courier on the film being made by Eddie Grant in Turkey which is being used as a cover by the Junk Men to search for a crashed plane load of base morphine that is worth millions of dollars. Given a message by Modesty and Willie to take to Yusuf Madrali, Chief of the Narcotics Inspectorate asking him to meet them at the place where the drugs have been hidden, he is knocked off his bike and the message intercepted. This results in Modesty and Willie walking in to an ambush. 192 WIRTH (1) STORY 65: “MILORD” STRIP 6976 The pilot of the helicopter taking Lamont and Kane around the more remote villages abducting the girls for use in Milord’s pornographic and snuff films and videos. He is the pilot when Lamont and Kane pick up Willie and Aniela from the bandits who have kidnapped them as part of Guido’s fantastic plot. Presumed thrown off Chimu Peak to his death by the women who were his former victims. WIRTH (2) STORY 93 “THE LAST ARISTOCRAT” STRIP 9939 One of Granny Smythe’s gang on the island of Asiago. When Modesty and Willie grab the two bacteriological weapons he brings Mr. Dobson a sub-machine gun with which to guard Granny. Reports the approach of two motor boats and warns Dobson that they are coming in using spotlights so this is not a covert attack. WU STORY 4: “MISTER SUN” TEXT ONLY STRIP 423 One of Mr. Sun’s men who is watching Modesty while she is in transit from Hong Kong to Saigon and is carrying a large consignment of Sun’s heroin. He reports to Yen Shan that Modesty has made no suspicious moves. WU, Chei STORY 40: “THE GOLDEN FROG”: STRIP 4506 Soldier in the Khmer Rouge Army of Cambodia and the Official Executioner for the Commissar Sei Mong who tells Modesty and Willie that they will each fight him with a machete and that both combatants will be blindfolded and linked to each other by a rope. It is a trick by Sei Mong and it is Modesty and Willie who are tied to each other when they are blindfolded. They catch on and break free and all he gets is a crushing reverse roundhouse kick from Willie for his trouble. Drawn by Romero Strip 6976 6th July, 1988 Drawn by Romero Strip 9958 11th May, 2000 Drawn by Romero Strip 4506 8th September, 1978 Drawn by Jim Holdaway Strip 404 15th August, 1964 Drawn by Romero Strip 4206A Not published in the Evening Standard