Modesty Blaise has returned to the Evening Standard. Monday's edition featured a banner across the front page announcing her return and, inside, readers were treated to the first episode of a reprint of the very first story, (* Thanks to Richard Sheaf for the heads up on this and the above scan. Modesty Blaise © Associated Newspapers/Solo Syndication. Thanks to Robbie (see comments) for the correction. 'The Gabriel Set Up' was, of course, the title of the first book, as reprinted by Titan.)
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ReplyDeleteDo they say if there's any plans for new stories or just reprints? (either way they ought to boost the sales of the big reprint books! that can only be a good thing)
Damn no Evening Standard in my area.
ReplyDeleteThey've started with the first story, "La Machine". "The Gabriel Set-up" is the third story.
ReplyDeleteI stopped buying the Standard when the strip finished. Even though I've got all the reprints I was really pleased to see they're running it again.