SECRET REPORT: Spy vs.Spy

The cold war is over, but the battle between Spy vs. Spy, one of the bitterest rivalries in history, still rages in three newly republished books ,"Spy vs. Spy Danger! Intrigue! and Stupidity!, " "Spy vs. Spy Missions of Madness," and "Spy vs Spy Masters of Mayhem" . Who are these guys? The premise simplicity itself__two spies one white one black try to kill each other in increasingly ingenious ways, but to no avail both are too inept. This war has been raging for almost 49 years and is still going on monthly in MAD magazine. Now three books that have been long out of print have been republished and were chosen to show off the genius of the original writer and illustrator Antonio Prohias who died in 1998. Prohias was a prominent political cartoonist in Cuban during the 1950's and criticized the Cuban government relentlessly in his cartoons. Facing imminent arrest and death he fled to the US in 1960 and took a menial job in New York. Within a few months he sold the concept of Spy vs. Spy to MAD Magazine and the battle between spy vs. spy began. One thing though__the Spies never say a word.