Mortadelo y Filemón (Mortadelo and Filemón) is one of the most popular comic strip series in Spain, appearing for the first time in in 1958 for the children comic-book Tiovivo by the hand of Francisco Ibañez. The series features Mortadelo, the bald tall master of disguises named after mortadella, and his boss, the shorter pudgier two-haired Filemón Pi. Initially they were private detectives operating Mortadelo y Filemón, Agencia de Información, but now both are secret agents in the Técnicos de Investigación Aeroterráquea (TIA, a spoof on CIA) which translates into "Earth-Air Investigation Technicians". This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mortadella is a finely hashed/ground pork sausage with lard pieces. ... Spy and secret agent redirect here; for alternate use, see Spy (disambiguation) and Secret agent (disambiguation). ... CIA, see CIA (disambiguation). ...

Mortadelo and Filemon could be described as a pair of walking catastrophes, no matter what kind of mission they are assigned they always manage to get it wrong, the results are almost invariably extreme violence directed towards Filemon, who always receives all the punches.

At TIA, they interact with their boss, the Superintendente Vicente; a catastrophic scientist parodying James Bond's Q, Professor Bacterio; and the fat secretary Ofelia, a parody of Moneypenny, who tries to allure Mortadelo. Q is a fictional character in the James Bond novels and movies. ... Miss Moneypenny is a fictional character in the James Bond novels and films. ...

Ibáñez issues several albums a year. After the 1980s, the albums have featured current news, like computer sabotage, the AVE, Islamic terrorism, Catalan, Spanish and European politics and specials for Olympic Games. AVE trainset for Madrid-Sevilla AVE, short for Alta Velocidad Española (literally, Spanish High Speed but the abbreviation also means bird in Spanish) is a high speed train that can achieve speeds of up to 300 km/h on dedicated track. ... Islamist terrorism, sometimes called Islamic terrorism, is terrorism that is carried out to further the political and religious ambitions of a segment of the Muslim community. ... This is the main article about the politic activity in Catalonia. ... The politics of Europe deals with the continually evolving politics within the continent. ... For months before the Olympic Games, runners relay the Olympic Flame from Olympia to the opening ceremony. ...

They are also popular in Germany as Clever & Smart.

A movie based on the series was made in 2003 in Spain.