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There's a sub-stub here at the moment, but this deserves an article. -- Jmabel 04:01, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
I'm removing the excessively comprehensive list of every single issue published, as not one of them is a link. Without any actual content, it's irrelevant that Spy was published four times one year, six the next, and so on. R 01:17, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
Is that naked picture of Ah-nold part of the article, or just vandalism? I see no reference to it in the article. I REALLY hope it's vandalism, because it nearly blinded me. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.218.138.95 (talk • contribs) 23 December 2006.
Spy: The Funny Years, p. 9:
That voice, improvised as we went along, was a hash of H.L. Mencken and A.J Liebling and Wolcott Gibbs from the ’20s, ’30s, and ’40s; parody-Time-ese of the ’40s and ’50s; New Journalism of the ’60s and ’70s; Private Eye, the scabrous (and much jokier) British fortnightly; and the ways we just happened to write.
A Washington Post article of 1986.02.13 is quoted (p. 23) as saying “E. Graydon Carter and... Kurt Anderson have been among the ranks of those yearning for an irreverent publication on the order of Britain’s naughty Private Eye.”
P. 37: “Spy’s tone was in place from the start, a little bit of Americanized Private Eye, some updated 1930s New Yorker, a lot Graydon, and a lot Kurt.”
I don’t feel like looking up any more references in this, a firsthand account of Spy’s formation. It was never a copy of Private Eye. Influenced by, sure. But not a copy. – joeclark 21:56, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Another popular favorite was the description of Jackie Collins as a "celebrity typist." 71.162.200.102 (talk) 20:27, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
I do not know the content specifics that are clearly missing, but some discussion of why the magazine ceased publishing is needed here. I recall it was vibrant to the end. What is the story? DulcetTone (talk) 00:40, 12 January 2022 (UTC)