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Lisa Barnstone and the family of Spy vs. Spy creator Antonio Prohias honor the cartoonist with this 6-inch figure.

A series of 6-inch Spy vs. Spy figures customized by all-star artists celebrate a half-century of hilariously intractable conflict between Mad magazine’s goofy spooks.

Created by Cuban cartoonist Antonio Prohias, Spy vs. Spy has gone transmedia in comics, animation and more since debuting in Mad in 1961.

Prohias’ family teamed up with sculptor Lisa Barnstone to memorialize the late cartoonist in their Spy vs. Spy figure, The Prohias Family’s Prohias. Other artists contributing to the spy-fi spoofs previewed in the gallery above include The City cartoonist Derf and Spy vs. Spy regular Peter Kuper.

Future iterations are due from Adventure Time’s Pendleton Ward, Madman’s Mike Allred, Hate’s Peter Bagge, Pixar’s Jay Shuster and others.

The Spy vs. Spy statuettes appeared at Comic-Con International last month. A new one debuts each weekday on Mad’s blog The Idiotical. Let us know in the comments section below if they carry the same satirical weight as the comic strip upon which they are based, or if the surreal skulls from the similarly minded Vader Project leave them in the dust.

Images courtesy Mad magazine