Modesty Blaise is working as right-hand-woman for a casino owner in Tangiers, Morocco, being his eyes and ears at the tables, supervising staff, and working as a croupier if needed. When an armed gang ...

Anne K. Ream is a Chicago-based writer and founder of Girl360, an empowerment project for tween girls. What is it about the growing “modesty movement” that makes me so nervous? On the face of it, ...

Classic: Modesty Blaise still rocks. I don’t know if it ever happens to you but it happens to me every now and then; there’s a feeling of fatigue and listlessness when it comes to reading, and the ...

Modesty Blaise came out of the superspy craze of the 60s and no guessing what her influences were, but it’s a tribute to the enduring popularity of the characters that is was still running nearly ...

In the days before over-hyped girl power, Britain had a liberated, independently minded action heroine as beautiful as she was deadly. Modesty Blaise is like the love child of James Bond and Emma Peel ...

She could be the poster girl for new-age feminism. Perhaps her most appealing aspect is the way she can do a powerful drop-kick wearing an exquisite designer gown and priceless pearls, fight and kill ...

Everybody raise the roof — Gal Gadot and “Wonder Woman” proved that a comic book blockbuster can feature a female superhero as its central character. Except that had already been proved in the late ...