Prohías sought work in his profession and travelled to the offices of Mad magazine in New York City on July 12, 1960. He fled to the United States on May 1, 1960, three days before Fidel Castro's government nationalized the last of the Cuban free press. Prohías was a prolific cartoonist in Cuba known for political satire. Spy characters have been featured in such media as video games and an animated television series, and in such merchandise as action figures and trading cards. Spy is currently written and drawn by Peter Kuper. A parody of the political ideologies of the Cold War, the strip was created by Cuban expatriate cartoonist Antonio Prohías, and debuted in Mad #60, dated January 1961. The spies usually alternate between victory and defeat (sometimes both win and both lose) with each new strip. The pair are always at war with each other, using a variety of booby traps to inflict harm on the other. One is dressed in white, and the other in black, but they are otherwise identical, and are particularly known for their long, beaklike heads and their white pupils and black sclera.

It features two agents involved in stereotypical and comical espionage activities. Spy is a wordless comic strip published in Mad magazine.

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