(November 1965)

New American Library, 1965 Series
 
Price
0.50 USD
Pages
196
On-sale Date
1965
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
?
Brand
Signet [name below logo]
Editing
Albert B. Feldstein ?

Issue Notes

First Printing.
Has a short message from Al Feldstein as "Editor of MAD" but does not actually identify him as editor of this book.
Published by "The New American Library, Inc."
Indexed from a 6th printing copy.

The All New MAD Secret File On Spy Vs Spy (Table of Contents)

Spy vs. Spy / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
humor; spy
Characters
Black Spy; White Spy
Synopsis
Viewing the spies through a keyhole.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

blank page(s) / 2 pages (report information)


Indexer Notes

Inside front and back covers are blank.

A Message From The Head Of The C.I.A. (Table of Contents: 2)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias
Letters
typeset

Reprints

Indexer Notes

introduction

More Of William M. Gaines's MAD Humor From Signet (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Letters
typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias
Letters
typeset

Synopsis
publishing information

Indexer Notes

illustration of a magnifying glass

Immigrant (Table of Contents: 6)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias
Letters
typeset

Genre
non-fiction
Characters
Antonio Prohias
Synopsis
Short bio of Antonio Prohias, with file number A-12045787.

And The Battle Begins! (Table of Contents: 7)

Spy vs. Spy / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias
Letters
Antonio Prohias ?

Genre
humor; spy
Synopsis
The spies are blown up.
Reprints

[The 3 Little Pigs] (Table of Contents: 8)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

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

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[Liberty, Equality, Fraternity] (Table of Contents: 9)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

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

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[Secret Mission] (Table of Contents: 10)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

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

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[Camouflage] (Table of Contents: 11)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

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

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[@*!#G] (Table of Contents: 12)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

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

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[Bus] (Table of Contents: 13)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

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

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[Counter Spy] (Table of Contents: 14)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

Genre
humor; spy
Characters
Black Spy; White Spy
Synopsis
The White Spy fools the Black Spy with a decoy island.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[The Tower] (Table of Contents: 15)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

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

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[The Border] (Table of Contents: 16)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

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

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[Target Practice] (Table of Contents: 17)

Spy vs. Spy / text story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

Genre
humor; spy
Characters
Black Spy; White Spy
Synopsis
The Black Spy booby-traps a gun that the White Spy tries to use.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[The Potion] (Table of Contents: 18)

comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

Genre
humor; spy
Characters
Black Spy; White Spy
Synopsis
The Black Spy invents an invisibility potion but the White Spy sabotages it.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

Intermission (Table of Contents: 19)

Spy vs. Spy / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

Genre
humor; spy
Characters
Black Spy; White Spy
Synopsis
The battered spies rest in a boxing ring.
Reprints

The Magician Spy (Table of Contents: 20)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

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

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[The Squirt] (Table of Contents: 21)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

Genre
humor; spy
Characters
Black Spy; White Spy
Synopsis
The White Spy pulls a variation on the squirting lapel flower gag.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[Cry Me An Ocean] (Table of Contents: 22)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

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

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[Mirrors] (Table of Contents: 23)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

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

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[Canal St] (Table of Contents: 24)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

Genre
humor; spy
Characters
Black Spy; White Spy
Synopsis
The White Spy is fooled by a decoy in an alley.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[The Spider] (Table of Contents: 25)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

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

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[The Flower] (Table of Contents: 26)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

Genre
humor; spy
Characters
Black Spy; White Spy
Synopsis
The Black spy vacuums up the White Spy, using a flower decoy.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[A Better Mousetrap] (Table of Contents: 27)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

Genre
humor; spy
Characters
Black Spy; White Spy
Synopsis
The White Spy one-ups the Black Spy's mousetrap.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[Remote Control] (Table of Contents: 28)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

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

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[Zoo] (Table of Contents: 29)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

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

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[Embassy] (Table of Contents: 30)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

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

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story.

[Tombstone] (Table of Contents: 31)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Antonio Prohias
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

Genre
humor; spy
Characters
Black Spy; White Spy
Synopsis
The White Spy fools the Black Spy into his own grave.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Includes 1-page title illustration unrelated to story. Contains flashback scenes to several of the other stories in this book.

The End (Table of Contents: 32)

Spy vs. Spy / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script
ant
Pencils
Antonio Prohias
Inks
Antonio Prohias

Genre
humor; spy
Characters
Black Spy; White Spy
Synopsis
The spies shoot each other while reaching for the dove of peace.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 33) (Expand) /

Spy vs. Spy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The All New MAD Secret File On Spy Vs Spy
    Spy vs. Spy
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
  3. 2. A Message From The Head Of The C.I.A.
  4. 3. More Of William M. Gaines's MAD Humor From Signet
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
  7. 6. Immigrant
  8. 7. And The Battle Begins!
    Spy vs. Spy
  9. 8. [The 3 Little Pigs]
    Spy vs. Spy
  10. 9. [Liberty, Equality, Fraternity]
    Spy vs. Spy
  11. 10. [Secret Mission]
    Spy vs. Spy
  12. 11. [Camouflage]
    Spy vs. Spy
  13. 12. [@*!#G]
    Spy vs. Spy
  14. 13. [Bus]
    Spy vs. Spy
  15. 14. [Counter Spy]
    Spy vs. Spy
  16. 15. [The Tower]
    Spy vs. Spy
  17. 16. [The Border]
    Spy vs. Spy
  18. 17. [Target Practice]
    Spy vs. Spy
  19. 18. [The Potion]
  20. 19. Intermission
    Spy vs. Spy
  21. 20. The Magician Spy
    Spy vs. Spy
  22. 21. [The Squirt]
    Spy vs. Spy
  23. 22. [Cry Me An Ocean]
    Spy vs. Spy
  24. 23. [Mirrors]
    Spy vs. Spy
  25. 24. [Canal St]
    Spy vs. Spy
  26. 25. [The Spider]
    Spy vs. Spy
  27. 26. [The Flower]
    Spy vs. Spy
  28. 27. [A Better Mousetrap]
    Spy vs. Spy
  29. 28. [Remote Control]
    Spy vs. Spy
  30. 29. [Zoo]
    Spy vs. Spy
  31. 30. [Embassy]
    Spy vs. Spy
  32. 31. [Tombstone]
    Spy vs. Spy
  33. 32. The End
    Spy vs. Spy
  34. 33. [no title indexed]
    Spy vs. Spy
This issue was modified by
  • Peter Croome
  • Alan Hutchinson
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Jason Sacks