MODESTY BLAISE Part 2

When Last We Left Our Heroine...

Wille Garvin, temporarily estranged from Modesty Blaise, served as a mercenary in a South American revolution, was captured and is now sitting in prison, about to be executed.

Fortunately, Sir Gerald Tarrant, head of an unnamed British spy service, knows about Willie's situation, and needs the services of Modesty and Willie. 

Sir Gerald visits Modesty and, instead of forcing her to work for him in exchange for Willie's location, gives it to her with no strings attached!

Modesty agrees to help Sir Gerald as soon as she has rescued Willie.

This she (of course) accomplishes, and...

To Be Continued Tomorrow at
Heroines

Adapted by Peter O'Donnell from his 1965 novelization of his screenplay for the 1960s movie Modesty Blaise (of which less than 5% was actually used in the film), which, in turn, was based on the 1963 introductory plotline of the Modesty Blaise comic strip illustrated by Jim Holdaway.Illustrated by Dick Giordano over layouts by Dan Spiegle.

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It's Christmas Crime! SHERLOCK HOLMES & DOCTOR WATSON "Season of Forgiveness"

Actually, There's No "Crime", per se, in This Yuletide Tale...

...though there is a bit of deception, but in the Spirit of Christmas, we assure you!

Written by Martin Powell and illustrated by Patrick Olliffe, this never-reprinted tale appeared in the Christmas charity comic Star*Reach's Within Our Reach (1991).

(All proceeds from the sale of the comic went to AmFAR and Sempervirens.)

As a special gift to our readers, here's a Yuletide episode of the 1940s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring the actors from the popular film series, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce!

Merry Christmas
and
Happy New Year

Halloween Horrors AMAZING DETECTIVE CASES "Ghost Story"

Here's a never-reprinted 1950s comic book tale...

... that's both about law enforcement and justice from beyond the grave!

You may note the Joe Maneely-illustrated cover doesn't really match the Bill Everett-rendered tale from Atlas' Amazing Detective Cases #13 (1952)

There are several possible reasons for that.

1) the cover and interior art were done at two different points in time, sometimes months apart!

2) The cover artist didn't have copies of the interior pages as visual reference, only plot descriptions from the editor!
3) the cover was done before the interior art as a "springboard" and the actual writer/artist(s) made changes when they were creating the story!
All three of these reasons could (and did) apply to Atlas Comics' books if the story's artist didn't do the cover...as was the case most of the time!
From issues 1 to 10, Amazing Detective Cases was a "true crime" pulp magazine, then a comic, telling tales of (allegedly) real criminals!
From 11 to the final issue, 14, it became a horror comic, ending in 1952.

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Secret Saga of THE GREEN HORNET "Green Hornet Stings Twice!"

Initially-believing the masked pseudo-criminal identity his uncle assumed during the 1940s was no longer needed...

...Britt Reid II is compelled, in the late 1960s, by the assassination of a close friend running for public office to don the mask to solve the murder...

And the Silver Age/TV Green Hornet takes flight against evil...

This never-reprinted section of NOW's Green Hornet V1N3 (1990) reveals the Golden Age/radio/movie serial Green Hornet's daughter Diana discovering her uncle has become a new (Silver Age/TV) Green Hornet.
After graduating law school and passing the bar exams, she would eventually replace District Attorney Frank Scanlon (who secretly-aided the Silver Age/TV Hornet) as DA, working with both her uncle and two nephews in their masked identities to bring criminals to justice.

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Secret Saga of THE GREEN HORNET "The Second Green Hornet and Kato Take Flight!"

We Showed You the Never-Reprinted Origin of the Golden Age/Radio/Movie Serial Green Hornet and Kato...

...Now See How Their Replacements Made Their Debut!
Writer Ron Fortier stated that the "Origin of the Silver Age/TV Green Hornet and Kato" flashback which follows was a fill-in by penciler Jim Wisniewski and inker Lenin Delsol as to finish issue NOW's Green Hornet #2 (1990) and get it to the printer when artist Jeff Butler became too ill to work.

This segment was excluded, at Fortier's request, from the Bonus Books Green Hornet reprint collection of issues #1 to #12, which continues with the story from the first half of #2 as shown HERE to the second half of #3 as shown HERE, so this chapter of the saga was, in fact, never-reprinted!
In addition, note that Britt Reid II should be black-haired...

...not blond, as shown here.

Now let's travel to the late-1960s...

To Be Concluded
WEDNESDAY!

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