copyright 2001 "First printing, 2001" stated; Watson-Guptill Publications, New York; softbound; fully illustrated; very good condition of book and covers.
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As seen in Mad Magazine, the spies--one in black, one in white--are forever upping each other on a diabolical dance of deceit and double-crossing. This commemorative issue features their creation, history and illustrious late creator, Prohias. In the grand tradition of Krazy Kat & Ignatz Mouse and the Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote, the Spies (one dressed in black, the other in white) are an endless variation on a Cold War theme—forever one-upping the other, til death do they part. This diabolical duo of double-cross and deceit are, as Art Spiegelman described them inThe New York Times Magazine, “the comic strip equivalent of the yin-and-yang symbol, good and evil, interdependent and interchangeable,...forever chasing each other’s tails.”
2001 marks the 40th anniversary of Spy vs. Spy, which made its first appearance in MAD #60, January 1961. The feature has run in virtually every issue since with nearly 1000 installments.Spy vs. Spy: The Complete Casebookchronicles the creation and history of the Spies and features all 247 of the strips written and illustrated by its illustrious creator, Antonio Prohias.