The All New Mad Secret File on Spy vs. Spy
[Tenth Printing]
(November 1978)
Warner Books,
1973 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Price
- 1.50 USD
- Pages
- 196
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Warner Books Inc.
- Brand
- W
- ISBN
-
0-446-88742-0
- Editing
- Al Feldstein (credited) (editor)
- Color
- black and white
- Binding
- perfect bound
Issue Notes
The title page verso of the 10th printing reads:
First printing: April, 1973
Reissued: November, 1978
It is possible that the "reissued" note was introduced in an earlier printing.
This issue has variants:
First printing: April, 1973
Reissued: November, 1978
It is possible that the "reissued" note was introduced in an earlier printing.
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Spy vs. Spy / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- The White Spy; The Black Spy
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A Message from the Head of the C.I.A.
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Al Feldstein (credited)
- Pencils
- Antonio Prohías
- Inks
- Antonio Prohías
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
[no title indexed]
text article / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Antonio Prohias is a famous Cuban artist...
- Genre
- biography
And the Battle Begins!
Spy vs. Spy / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- The White Spy; the Black Spy
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
[The 3 Little Pigs]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Antonio Prohías (credited)
- Pencils
- Antonio Prohías (credited)
- Inks
- Antonio Prohías (credited)
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The White Spy uses the ideas in the story The 3 Little Pigs to foil the Black Spy.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[Liberty, Equality, Fraternity]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The Black Spy fakes a revolution to con the white Spy into using a booby-trapped guillotine.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[Secret Mission]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The White Spy takes over one of the Black Spy's aircraft carriers using a decoy bomb.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[Camouflage]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The White Spy destroys many things, thinking the Black Spy has camouflaged himself, but misses the real target.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[@*!#G]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The White Spy frames the Black Spy for defaming his superiors, leading to the Black Spy's demise.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[Bus]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The Black Spy finds the White Spy so distracted while reading a book of secrets, that he is able to lead the White Spy over a cliff.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[Counter Spy]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The White Spy fools the Black Spy with a decoy island.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[The Tower]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The Black Spy causes the White Spy to build his attack tower in an unstable manner.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[The Border]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The Black Spy tries to move his border but fails to reckon that the very fences themselves may be the White Spy's weapon.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[Target Practice]
Spy vs. Spy / text story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The Black Spy booby-traps a gun that the White Spy tries to use.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[The Potion]
comic story / 14 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The Black Spy invents an invisibility potion but the White Spy sabotages it.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
Intermission
Spy vs. Spy / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The battered spies rest in a boxing ring.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
The Magician Spy
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The White Spy is fooled into helping with a magic act, wherein he blows himself up.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[The Squirt]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The White Spy pulls a variation on the squirting lapel flower gag.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[Cry Me an Ocean]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Antonio Prohías (credited)
- Pencils
- Antonio Prohías (credited)
- Inks
- Antonio Prohías (credited)
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- To avoid being captured, the Black Spy sings so beautifully that the White Spy sinks his own ship.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[Mirrors]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The White Spy foils the Black Spy's scheme to watch his movements in a mirror.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[Canal St]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The White Spy is fooled by a decoy in an alley.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[The Spider]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The Black spy tries to use the example of a spider escaping on a thread, but fails to anchor himself properly.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[The Flower]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The Black spy vacuums up the White Spy, using a flower decoy.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[A Better Mousetrap]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The White Spy one-ups the Black Spy's mousetrap.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[Remote Control]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The Black Spy disguises a shark as a toy boat and the White Spy is attacked when he tries to smash the "boat."
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[Zoo]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The White Spy finds an unusual way to free a caged lion to attack the Black Spy.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[Embassy]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The Black Spy fakes his defection from his country. He is hired as a double agent by the White Spy, but double-crosses him.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.
[Tombstone]
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The White Spy fools the Black Spy into his own grave.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story. Contains flashback scenes to several of the other stories in this book.
The End
Spy vs. Spy / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- The spies shoot each other while reaching for the dove of peace.
- Reprints
- from Mad's Spy vs Spy (New American Library, 1965 series) #D2765 (November 1965)
-
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Spy vs. Spy -
1.
A Message from the Head of the C.I.A.
-
2.
[Title Page and Credits]
-
3.
["Antonio Prohias is a famous Cuban artist..."]
-
4.
And the Battle Begins!
Spy vs. Spy -
5.
[The 3 Little Pigs]
Spy vs. Spy -
6.
[Liberty, Equality, Fraternity]
Spy vs. Spy -
7.
[Secret Mission]
Spy vs. Spy -
8.
[Camouflage]
Spy vs. Spy -
9.
[@*!#G]
Spy vs. Spy -
10.
[Bus]
Spy vs. Spy -
11.
[Counter Spy]
Spy vs. Spy -
12.
[The Tower]
Spy vs. Spy -
13.
[The Border]
Spy vs. Spy -
14.
[Target Practice]
Spy vs. Spy -
15.
[The Potion]
-
16.
Intermission
Spy vs. Spy -
17.
The Magician Spy
Spy vs. Spy -
18.
[The Squirt]
Spy vs. Spy -
19.
[Cry Me an Ocean]
Spy vs. Spy -
20.
[Mirrors]
Spy vs. Spy -
21.
[Canal St]
Spy vs. Spy -
22.
[The Spider]
Spy vs. Spy -
23.
[The Flower]
Spy vs. Spy -
24.
[A Better Mousetrap]
Spy vs. Spy -
25.
[Remote Control]
Spy vs. Spy -
26.
[Zoo]
Spy vs. Spy -
27.
[Embassy]
Spy vs. Spy -
28.
[Tombstone]
Spy vs. Spy -
29.
The End
Spy vs. Spy
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- Demian Katz
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