Issue Details

Issue	#1
Published	January 1981
Cover Price	5.95 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Cat Yronwode
Notes	Publication date taken from date on editorial.

Cover Details

Characters	Modesty Blaise
Genre	Spy
Pencils	Jim Holdaway (signed)
Inks	Jim Holdaway
Notes	Cover image taken from interior art. Cat Yronwode credited with cover design.

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Introduction..."

Script	Cat Yronwode
Letters	Typeset

33 page Modesty Blaise story "Top Traitor"

Characters	Modesty Blaise; Willie Garvin; Weng; Graf Von Schuyler; Sir Gerald Tarrant; Michael York; Mr. Fraser; Richard Sefton; Ranshaw
Genre	Spy
Script	Peter O'Donnell
Pencils	Jim Holdaway
Inks	Jim Holdaway
Notes	Newspaper strip that originally appeared in the British Daily Express Newspaper. Reprinted here with four individual instalments per page, each numbered consecutively from #744 up to #873. In other words, about four months worth of the newspaper strip for this story. Artist Jim Holdaway died in 1970, hence estimates of date.
Reprinted	From Daily Express newspaper. Mid/late 1960s.

30 page Modesty Blaise story "The Vikings"

Characters	Modesty Blaise; Willie Garvin;
Genre	Spy
Script	Peter O'Donnell
Pencils	Jim Holdaway
Inks	Jim Holdaway
Reprinted	From Daily Express newspaper. Mid/Late 1960s.

1 page filler "A Modesty Blaise Check List"

Synopsis	A listing of all Modesty Blaise episodes, and the artists who drew them.
Letters	Typeset