A Word about Spy vs. Spy
"Spy vs Spy, " appers to be a wordless comic strip (unless you count words like "boom,") that can be found on the pages of MAD magizines, on MAD TV, in books such as "Spy vs. Spy: The Complete Casebook," even in a Mountain Dew commercial. It is originally a black and white comic, but they can appear colored, but the spies are still black and white. They can appear as action figures, on trading cards, mini figures, or maybe on board games. It has been around for at least 50 years, it started in about 1961, and it was created by a man named Antonio Prohias. For those of you who like "Spy vs. Spy," you really have Antonio Prohias to thank. It has only two characters, the black and white spies. They do al sorts of wacky things to each other, and want to either kill each other, or get each other's top secret plans. They don't talk, there are speech bubbles in some strips that contain pictures, and they do things such as hiding boxing gloves in their breif cases, or walk around in disguise, or set traps, or graffiti "Vote for white spy. They use tools such as bombs, missiles bows and arrows, knives, boomerangs, giant mouse traps, boxing gloves, and they have a lot of army machines such as tanks, submarines, helicopters, jet planes or boats. In some strips they even appear as cave men, or cowboys, or babies, or even old retired guys. Whatever they appear to be, their objectives never change. Here is an example of a "Spy vs. Spy" strip down below.
"Spy vs. Spy" was not always on paper. MAD TV always does videos in like the middle of an episode and is still always funny like the strips. Here is an example of a "Spy vs. Spy" video below.
A Word about the third spy
You may have read that "Spy vs. Spy" has only two characters. That's not (entirely) true. The third spy and only female is the cleverest of the man in white and the man in black. These are called "Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy" strips, where it isn't Prohias always coloring all black or all white, but also shades gray. The third spy is very clever and has never lost to either of the spies. The black and white spies acted differently when she was around, even if their enemies were around. They fell in love with her, and tried to help her. This was an advantage for the gray spy and a disadvantage for the black and white spies. Having two people you have to defeat help you and fall in love with you, a clever and smart spy, it will be easy to take them both out at once. To show you, here is an example of a "Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy" strip below.
A Word about "Spy vs. Spy Jr."
The black and white spies were not always adults. Advice for adults who like "Spy vs. Spy," if you think your kids would like it, but think the knives and bombs are too violent, try checking out "Spy vs Spy jr," a cartoon also wordless like the original, but without things like bombs or knives, or guns, and replaced by things such as cream pies and Krazy Glue, or balloons filled with ink. The spies were kids, so they went to school, and caused a lot of trouble there. Wins included one enemy in the principal's office, or getting smothered in water after one spy surfed away on his skate board, or if it was a gray spy strip, both black and white spies getting stuck together with Krazy Glue. Here is an example of a "Spy vs. Spy jr." strip below.
