*Collected Editions: We’re often listing British reprints of American stuff (we even have a category devoted to it), so it’s nice to turn that round and feature an American reprint series of British material. In the late 1980s, Pioneer had a crack at Peter O’Donnell’s Modesty Blaise, featuring the earliest Modesty stories from the London Evening Standard and reformatting them into an American comic style. All the art is by Jim Holdaway, the first regular Modesty artist, and many peoples’ favourite. Stories featured are La Machine, The Long Lever, The Gabriel Set-Up and Mister Sun, familiar ground for die-hard Modesty fans, but interesting to see the attempt to reformat them with different panel sizes and layouts, sometimes more successfully than others. And if you’re not already a die-hard fan, a great place to start the adventures of Modesty, so much more than just a female James Bond. All 10 issues in one set, all VF or better. 
PICTURED: THE OFFICIAL MODESTY BLAISE #1; COMPLETE SET #1-10 £45