The All New Mad Secret File on Spy vs. Spy

Antonio Prohías’s silent, slapstick battle of wits between the Black Spy and the White Spy gets its own one-shot dossier from Warner Books in 1973. This single-issue Mad Secret File collects a decade of the duo’s most devious, gadget-laced gags from the pages of Mad magazine, presented without a single word balloon. Prohías, the strip’s sole creator, packs every panel with Rube Goldberg-style traps and deadpan double-crosses, cementing the feature’s status as a timeless comic-staple of Cold War-era absurdism. A concise, must-have artifact for fans of the franchise’s purest, most explosive form.