Spy vs Spy is a classic black and white comic strip created
by Cuban Antonio Prohías. The wordless "Spy vs. Spy" cartoon was meant to be symbolic of the Cold War and the creators thoughts on the futility of the arms race. Each strip would include the following morse code "_... _.__ .__. ._. ___ .... .. ._ ..." meaning "BY PROHIAS" under the title. After Prohías's retirement, several artists worked on the strip with Peter Kuper as the latest artist and has been doing it since 1997.
The concept of the comic has been the same since it originated in 1961; it features two spies, one Black and one White, that are constantly battling one other, and coming up with increasingly sophisticated methods to defeat the other. A plot in a typical strip would have one spy setting up a treacherous booby-trap for the other to fall into. Sometimes the trap would work successfully, but the other spy would sometimes come up with a brilliant counter plan of his own and then defeat the first spies plan.
The Black and White Spies are employed by the embassies of two nations (witch ones is irrelevant) and look identical except for the color of their uniforms, the Spies battle against one other using a variety of complicated creative techniques involving weapons, machines and props. The victor alternates roughly every other comic, and neither spy is portrayed as good or evil since both of them are equally ruthless towards one other. Continue reading the Spy vs Spy story or scroll down and browse our content including the Spy vs Spy Gallery ,
or the first published Spy vs Spy cartoon.
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Mad Magazine
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Map the Land Mines
White Spy uses a telescope to watch Black Spy place land mines to protect his base. White Spy then carefully sneaks into Black Spy headquarters. However ...
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Spy vs Spy
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Spy vs Spy Mountain Dew Commercials
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Cat’s Cradle
Here we see the Spies practicing some rope work … White SPY is making a noose while Black Spy goes a little simpler and makes the old childrens favorite Cats Cradle that White SPY can not resist …
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Spy vs Spy Missions of Madness
“Spy vs. Spy” was the brainchild of Cuban-born political cartoonist Antonio Prohias, who fled his country after receiving death threats from Fidel Castro. Prohias settled in America, and in 1960 he began a 26-year run of Spy misadventures in MAD Magazine. This book by Prohias, long out of print, showcases his genius as an artist, storyteller, and graphic designer.
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Spy vs Spy – Karate School
White SPY is taking Karate lessons when Black Spy finds out, but when White Spy tries the moves in real life …
