<I>I Spy #2</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1967
name: label: Published by
content: Gold Key Comics, American, 1962 - 1984
label: Subject of
content: Bill Cosby, American, born 1937
label: Subject of
content: Robert Culp, American, 1930 - 2010
notes: label: Description
content: The second (#2) I Spy comic book printed in 1967. Front cover has a color image of Alexander Scott (Bill Cosby) and Kelly Robinson (Robert Culp), characters in the TV show "I Spy," posing in front of a sky (blue with clouds) backdrop. Cosby is standing wearing a light blue cardigan with his hands on Culp's shoulders. Culp is sitting wearing a white pull-over with a black and red lined v-neck, and holding a racket in his PL hand. There are two smaller black-and-white images: to the right of Cosby's head is a image of Cosby with a white button down shirt pointing a gun, and to the right of Culp's head is a smaller image of Culp in a suit and tie holding a gun. At the top, in a orange, white and red block coloring , reads [I SPY] in red and black type, centered, [ORDERS TO/SCOTTY AND/KELLY:/GET ATOMIC/SCIENTIST/BEFORE HE/SLEEPS-/AND TALKS!] in white and black type on orange background on the right, and a logo for Gold Key in the top left corner with [I SPY] in black type to the right and [10182-704] in white type underneath. [(c) 1967, THREE F PRODUCTIONS] in black type in the bottom right corner. There is a white type [12¢] in the top right corner. Inside front and back cover have black-and-white depictions from the TV show with accompanying text. Interior pages of color printed on newspaper type print, comic strip style. Comics include: "The Missing Man," "Mini-Comics," "Monster Museum," "Jest for Fun," "Quick Takes," and "The Tell-Tale Camera" . 16 interior pages total, all front and back. Back cover has a black-and-white image of Bill Crosby and Robert Culp, both in karate outfits with black belts, holding each other's forearms, with a block color background, purple on the left, green on the right, with [I SPY PIN-UP] in black type near the bottom edge, and two light depictions of pandas in the top right and left corners.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Amusements
label: Topic
content: Race relations
label: Topic
content: Television
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Books and Published Materials
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.53.9.2
objectType: label: Type
content: comic books
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © 1967, Three F Productions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper, metal
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 10 1/4 × 7 1/4 in. (26 × 18.4 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (open): 10 1/4 × 14 1/2 in. (26 × 36.8 cm)