Spy Vs. Spy: The Complete Casebook

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Summary: PROHIAS WAS A RARE SPIRIT
Review: In my early MAD Magazine days, I naturally took to the more visually-oriented stuff (Don Martin, Aragones's "drawn-out dramas," etc.); the movie & TV satires I didn't graduate to till I began actually watching the stuff they satirized. Among the former things above, Antonio Prohias's iconic spies ruled the day.
I know the strip wasn't to everyone's taste; I guess it's a matter of being reared in the uninihibitedly-violent era of cartoon humor I grew up in. Indeed, there's something rather childish about the bonk-about retaliation engaged in by Prohias's venerable creations (I'll confess- I was always rooting for the White Spy!!--I guess he fought DIRTIER).
But there's another side to Prohias many will find relevatory. He fled to the US from Cuba in 1959 to escape arrest & execution by Castro; this book does show us his earlier strip, "Tovarich," depicting a despicable Soviet dictator meant as indirect reference to the situation of Prohias's native country. Other entries in this book show "one-shot" cartoons he did for MAD: One such article is "The Pearl." Not many have seen this cartoon, but its 2 pages are potent stuff indeed. It's an incredible story of a deep-sea diver who kills an octopus to claim a pearl; the diver's pummelled by a one-eyed old salt, who rides the high seas and whose lifeless hand provides a sunbather with the stolen clam; the sunbather's given one too many strong drinks by a floozy, who nabs the clam; she's shot to death by the bartender. He breaks open the clam, only to find a paper advertisement for Earl's Pearl Shop!
Powerful stuff, and you'll see more of the same in "Spy Vs. Spy--The Complete Casebook." He's no longer with us, but Prohias's work collectively tells us a whole lot about human greed and oppression.

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Summary: hehehehe
Review: It's Spy v Spy, need i say anymore. It took me like 5 hours to read everything, and it had to be the longest smile i've had reading a book.

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Summary: Gathers their original exploits under one cover
Review: Spy vs. Spy comic strips have appeared for four decades of MAD Magazine offerings and presents a diabolical set of characters who have attracted a wide audience. Spy Vs. Spy gathers their original exploits under one cover in a 40th-anniversary tribute to the Spies and their creator, blending history and essays with plenty of black and white cartoons. A fine guide to the classic MAD creation.

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Summary: awsome book,get it!
Review: This is a great book,if you are a mad spy vs spy fan like me you should really get it.It has every mad spy vs spy from mad mag. over 4 decades of spy vs spy under one cover....awsome book!

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Summary: The Best Book
Review: This is a great collection of spy vs. spy cartoons. It took me nearly 4 hours to read it all. If you have been a fan of mad magazine you will love this book. It is at a reasonable price too, so I recommend to buy!!!

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Summary: The Usual Gang Of Idiots
Review: This is a great collection of spy vs. spy cartoons. It took me nearly 4 hours to read it all. If you have been a fan of mad magazine you will love this book. It is at a reasonable price too, so I recommend to buy!!!

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Summary: AWESOME!
Review: What a story about the author I never knew as a kid growing up reading Spy Vs Spy every month in MAD magazine ... Just amazing (It makes me appreciate the strips more than ever, even if I don't neccesarily agree with his personal political views entirely). And having the complete collection under one cover is great. I only wish it was a hard cover! Spy Vs Spy to me is like the Pink Panther of comics, an all time classy classic, that anyone in the world can look at and appreciate since it is not bound by any language. This is the ONLY comic book I own.