Modesty Blaise

In the mid-1980s, the Finnish publisher Jalava brought Peter O'Donnell's iconic British secret agent to a new audience with a two-issue comic series simply titled Modesty Blaise. This short-lived run adapted the adventures of the elegant and lethal crime-fighter, originally a newspaper strip sensation, into a compact Finnish comic format. While the series itself was brief, it represents a notable European effort to collect and present O'Donnell's beloved character for a dedicated readership, marking a small but significant moment in the character's international publishing history.