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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Comic Strips
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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 vs Spy" - a new twist, now there is a Female Spy to compete with Black Spy & White Spy
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Spy vs Spy Mountain Dew Commercials
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Spy vs Spy Gallery Index
The Spy vs Spy Image Gallery is the section on our website where we display our collection of random images that have been submitted to the site or ones that we have discovered and wanted to share with everybody.
