Spy Vs. Spy - di Antonio Prohias

[American_Gaijin89]

Testi e Disegni: Antonio Prohias
Edizione Originale: The All New MAD Secret File on Spy vs. Spy (originally released by Signet in 1965, reprinted by Warner Books, 1971, and Watson-Guptill in 2009)
Spy vs. Spy Follow Up File (originally released by Signet in 1968, reprinted by Warner Books, 1971, and Watson-Guptill in 2009)
The Third MAD Dossier of Spy vs. Spy (released by Warner Books, 1972)
The Fourth MAD Declassified Papers on Spy vs. Spy (originally released by Warner Books in 1974, reprinted by Watson-Guptill in 2009)
The Fifth MAD Report on Spy vs. Spy (released by Warner Books, 1978)
Mad's Big Book of Spy vs. Spy Capers and Other Surprises (released by Warner Books, 1982)
The Sixth MAD Case Book on Spy vs. Spy (released by Warner Books, 1988)
Prohias' Spy vs. Spy: The Updated Files (released by Warner Books, 1989) (by Duck Edwing and Bob Clarke)
Spy vs. Spy: The Updated Files #8 (released by Warner Books, 1993) (by Duck Edwing and Bob Clarke)
Spy vs. Spy: The Complete Casebook (Watson-Guptill, 2001)
Spy vs. Spy: The Joke and Dagger Files (Watson-Guptill, 2007)

Edizione Italiana: -

"The comic features two spies, Black and White, who are constantly warring against each other, and coming up with increasingly sophisticated ways of doing away with the other.

They are made to look virtually identical: trilby hats, overcoats and long pointed noses. The only difference between them are the color of their clothes: one dresses in white, the other in black. They were similar to El Hombre Siniestro (the Sinister Man), and Tovarich, characters which Prohias had drawn while still living in Cuba and who would also play nasty tricks on people.

A typical plot would be one spy setting up a booby-trap for the other to fall into and be "killed". Sometimes the trap works, but sometimes the other spy comes up with a brilliant counter plan of his own (often by watching the spy set up the trap, or just somehow knowing about it) and will be the final winner. However, sometimes the other spy expected this and set up a similar trap for them. In other cases, the losing spy will use a plan B to counter the other spy's counter. Frequently, the winning spy celebrates his victory with a V sign gesture toward the loser.

Sometimes the spies' traps are not to kill or injure the other, but to simply trick them. Some of the early cartoons (including their very first), published in 1961, had both spies coming up with the same plan to trap the other, the result being a draw. In the early years, the title panel of the comic would feature a one-panel gag presenting one spy besting the other; the main comic then used the rest of the panels to tell a different short story with the other spy winning.

During 1962–65, the comic was sometimes called Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy ("X & Y & Z" in some countries) and featured a female spy, Lady in Grey (or the Grey Spy), with whom both White and Black Spy were in love. She took advantage of this to set traps for which both male spies would fall for and "perish". Because the Lady in Grey would always end up winning, Prohías felt that she was too limited and dropped her from the strip. She later returned under other artists and writers.

Normally, the spies' weapons of choice are bombs, daggers, torpedoes, handguns, machine guns, and mallets. Some have said that the spies' names are "Cloak" (black) and "Dagger" (white) as these terms reference espionage and assassination techniques. In Japan, the two spies have the names "Heckle and Jeckle" and are often assumed to be related to the Heckle and Jeckle from the 20th Century Fox cartoons."


Fonte: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_vs._Spy

[Azrael]

Se non erro facevano anche i cartoni animati di questo personaggio ... correggetemi in caso contrario 

[Nexus]

Mi pare di sì

[Green Arrow]

io mi ricordo un videogioco su di loro... roba fine anni '80, primissimi anni '90 

[American_Gaijin89]

come brand è abbastanza famoso, le strisce però non le ho mai lette.