![]() ![]() You are about to meet Black Spy and White Spy – the two MADdest spies in the whole world. Spy provides early insight to the characters and Prohías' views on the Castro regime and the CIA: The cover copy of The All New Mad Secret File on Spy vs. Prohías described the character as someone who "thought nothing of chopping the tails off of dogs, or even the legs off of little girls" and stated he was "born out of the national psychosis of the Cuban people." 'El Hombre Siniestro bears strong resemblance to the Spies-although, instead of fighting against a set rival, he simply does horrible things to anyone he can find. Like the Spies, he wore a wide-brimmed hat and overcoat and had a long pointed nose. The Spies were modeled after El Hombre Siniestro ( "The Sinister Man"), a character Prohías created in the Cuban magazine Bohemia in 1956. They are identical except for one being entirely in white and one entirely in black. It was later drawn in full color when the magazine changed from a black and white to full color format.īlack Spy and White Spy (or "Man in Black" and "Man in White") - Wearing wide-brimmed hats and dressed in overcoats, both Spies have long pointed faces. ![]() Peter Kuper took over as writer and artist for the strip with Mad magazine #356 (April 1997). Some were largely uncredited, simply being signed "M&S" (MAD 335) or "M&e" (MAD 352). ![]() Their strips are identifiable by Clarke's drawing style, but signed " 'C/e", or " 'C/p" in the Prohías-written cases. The strips continued, with writer Duck Edwing and artist Bob Clarke creating the majority. After that he drew gag strips for the titles (such as one involving radioactive waste in #287) and wrote several stories for Clarke or Manak to draw, with his last such contribution in #337 (July 1995). Spy strips for Mad magazine, the last one appearing in #269 (March 1987). In the 1980s overhanging lips were common. In 1965 he began to experiment with not drawing frames on the Spies' shades, and this became a consistent trait from late 1966 on. Prohías evolved his drawing style over the years, making the Spies' heads proportionately larger by 1964. 1964) was altered to remove scenes where the spies drink and smoke (Gaines had a strong anti-smoking stance). Spy, stating, "The sweetest revenge has been to turn Fidel's accusation of me as a spy into a moneymaking venture." Prohías, however, was censored by Mad magazine publisher William Gaines on at least one occasion: the strip that eventually appeared in Mad magazine #84 (Jan. In a 1983 interview with the Miami Herald, Prohías reflected on the success of Spy vs. Prohías cryptically signed each strip on its first panel with a sequence of Morse code characters that spell "BY PROHIAS". After a successful showing of his work and a prototype cartoon for Spy vs. Prohías sought work in his profession and travelled to the offices of Mad magazine in New York City on July 12, 1960. He fled to the United States on May 1, 1960, three days before Fidel Castro's government nationalized the last of the Cuban free press. Prohías was a prolific cartoonist in Cuba known for political satire. Spy characters have been featured in such media as video games and an animated television series, and in such merchandise as action figures and trading cards. Spy is currently written and drawn by Peter Kuper. A parody of the political ideologies of the Cold War, the strip was created by Cuban expatriate cartoonist Antonio Prohías, and debuted in Mad #60, dated January 1961. The spies usually alternate between victory and defeat (sometimes both win and both lose) with each new strip. The pair are always at war with each other, using a variety of booby-traps to inflict harm on the other. One is dressed in white, and the other in black, but they are otherwise identical, and are particularly known for their long, beaklike heads and their white pupils and black sclera. It features two agents involved in stereotypical and comical espionage activities. Spy is a wordless comic strip published in Mad magazine. ![]()
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