Modesty Blaise # 194 (1963)

As I said, I LOVE Modesty Blaise, so can I have a favorite of her 10,000+ daily strips? Yes, I can, and this is it. From near the conclusion of "The Long Lever:" sometimes the good guys lose. Modesty realizes the scientist they've been tasked to free from the Iron Curtain will return to Russia since his daughter is held there. So see takes out "Willie love" so he won't be complicit in her decision and the failure of the mission. When you see a panel of your art repeated in reprints you know it's a powerful image. Props to Peter O'Donnell's writing in this storyline, and all of them, including the prose Modesty novels.