Modesty Blaise strip 2334 - The Bound Beauty and the Snake (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Enric Badia Romero
Medium: Pen & Ink on Acid-free Paper
Size: 20" x 6" (500mm x 165mm)
Date: 1970
Signature: Signed by artist in centre panel
Code: RomeroMB2334

This is the Signed unique original Pen & Ink drawing by Enric Badia Romero.

Modesty, Willie and their guide Gil, are operating an under the radar rescue operation in the small South American republic of Cuarembo. A particularly feisty English girl, Diana Millard, has been kidnapped by revolutionaries and is being held hostage in the deep jungle.

The revolutionaries have released a huge anaconda serpent near the bound hostage and are filming her plight in order to prove how very serious they are.

Willie Garvin has blindfolded himself and is staggering forward into the scene, pretending he is in desperate need of water, in order to get into knife range.

This original strip is beautifully and meticulously brushed by Romero. Including many figures, the giant snake, and of course the women Romero is renowned for depicting with such charm and beauty.

This also represents a very early work in the Modesty timeline, and forms part of the third story Romero ever worked on; The Green-Eyed Monster.

The artist has collected a newspaper cutting of the published strip and this is affixed to the reverse, alongside a rubber ink stamp saying the strip was received on 17th December 1970.

• Artist Biography
  Enric Badia Romero (born 1930; Spain)
  The celebrated Spanish artist launched the comic Alex in 1953 and in 1970 took over the illustration of Modesty Blaise, the long running syndicated newspaper strip of Peter O'Donnell's adventurous sexy heroine, for longer than any other artist. He is also famous for his full colour and pen and ink illustrations of the scantily clad heroine Axa.