Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Black Pearl | 1978 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 2 | The Hell-Makers | 1986 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 3 | The Gabriel Set-Up | 1986 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 4 | Death of a Jester | 1987 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 5 | The Warlords of Phoenix | 1987 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 6 | The Puppet Master | 1987 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 7 | Uncle Happy | 1990 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 8 | The Iron God | 1996 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 9 | Live Bait | 2002 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 10 | Lady in the Dark | 2003 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 11 | Mister Sun | 2004 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 12 | Top Traitor | 2004 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 13 | Bad Suki | 2005 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 14 | The Green-Eyed Monster | 2005 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 15 | The Gallows Bird | 2006 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 16 | Cry Wolf | 2006 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 17 | The Inca Trail | 2007 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 18 | Death Trap | 2007 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 19 | Yellowstone Booty | 2008 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 20 | Green Cobra | 2008 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 21 | The Lady Killers | 2009 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 22 | The Scarlet Maiden | 2009 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 23 | Death in Slow Motion | 2009 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 24 | Sweet Caroline | 2010 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 25 | The Double Agent | 2011 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 26 | Million Dollar Game | 2011 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 27 | The Girl in the Iron Mask | 2013 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 28 | The Young Mistress | 2013 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 29 | The Grim Joker | 2014 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 30 | The Killing Distance | 2015 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 31 | Ripper Jax | 2015 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 32 | The Murder Frame | 2016 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 33 | The Children of Lucifer | 2017 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
| 34 | The Killing Game | 2017 | Modesty Blaise | Buy |
The Modesty Blaise comic strip ran as a daily feature in the London Evening Standard from 1963 to 2001. Peter O’Donnell wrote every storyline, and the strip was drawn first by Jim Holdaway (1963-1970) and then primarily by Enric Badia Romero. The thirty-four collected volumes reprint the strip’s full run in book form.
The earliest collections appeared in the late 1970s and 1980s, starting with The Black Pearl (1978). Publication of collected editions continued steadily through the 2000s and 2010s as publishers like Titan Books brought more storylines into print. The final collected volume, The Killing Game, appeared in 2017. The strip’s storylines parallel the novels in tone, with Modesty and Willie Garvin taking on criminals, mercenaries, and hostile organizations in locations around the world.