MADAME SPY

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Normal human

Occupation: Spy

Group Membership: Soviet spy network

Affiliations: "Comrade"

Enemies: Old Zealand ambassador, Alice (last name unrevealed), Popples

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: New York City, USA;
   formerly Soviet Union

First Appearance: Popples#1 (December, 1986)

Powers/Abilities: Madame Spy is an overenthusiastic secret agent, desperate to find secrets. She is duplicitous and lies easily to maintain her cover. Svelte and tall, her posture is mostly bent, probably to listen in to shorter people. She is very fit with excellent running endurance.

Height: 6'
Weight: 140 lbs.
Eyes: Olive
Hair: Black

History:

(Popples#1 (fb) - BTS) - The Soviet secret agent known as Madame Spy took an undercover job as a baby sitter for Alice, the daughter of the Old Zealand ambassador to the United Nations (UN) in order to learn state secrets. She was aided by a short but ineffectual "comrade".

(Popples#1) - Madame Spy discovered the UN ambassador had a big secret and desperately wanted to find out what it was, leaving a big mess in his home, briefly distracted by her comrade. Alice felt isolated and hid, but was befriended by bouncing happy bear-like bundles called Popples. The fun-loving critters investigated and discovered Madame Spy's true identity. The Popples warned Alice and distracted Madame Spy so that they could flee from the secret agent in the ambassador's limousine. The Popples and Alice went to the UN building to inform Alice's father, but got caught in a traffic jam. Madame Spy put on her running shoes to bypass traffic and accidentally initiated a marathon run. Madame Spy reached the ambassador first and lied that Alice had run away; however, Alice and the Popples arrived on foot and told of Madame Spy's nefarious motives. Madame Spy tried to escape but was caught by police with the aid of the Popples. Madame Spy called out that she would learn the ambassador's secret and he later revealed to Alice the secret was that she had a new baby sister.

Comments: Created by Stan Kay, John Costanza, Jacqueline Roettcher.

"Old Zealand"? Clearly a play on the real country New Zealand--or someone at the UN stuffed up the name plates.

When she inadvertently sets off a marathon run, she criticizes crazy New Yorkers and wishes she was back behind the "Rusty Curtain"--a reference to the old "Iron Curtain" of the Soviet Communist era.

This profile was completed 04/07/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25^th anniversary's celebratory event.

Profile by Grendel Prime.

CLARIFICATIONS :
Madame Spy has no known connections to:

• MADAME HYDRA - attempted to kill Fury, served as an agent of the Yellow Claw--Nick Fury vs SHIELD#3
  
• MADAME MASQUE (Whitney Frost) - face scarred, criminal, used regular and gas guns--Iron Man I#17
  
• MADAME WEB (Cassandra Webb) - clairvoyance, precognition, other mental powers, confined to wheelchair--Amazing Spider-Man I#210
• MADAME X (Nina Vladimirovna  Tsiolkovsky) - Communist agent, posed as man to learn secrets of Pym particles from Ant-Man--Tales to Astonish I#36
  
• SPYMASTER - former agent of Roxxon and Justin Hammer, trainer and leader of Espionage Elite--Iron Man I#33
• SPYMASTER (Mark Sharen), Espionage Elite recruit, Spymaster used his replacement's death make everyone believe he had died--Iron Man I#220
• SPYMASTER (Nathan Lemon) - agent of Justin Hammer, trained as successor by Taskmaster, beaten and killed by agents of Sinclair Abbott--Iron Man I#254
• SPYMASTER (Sinclair Abbott) - widower of Greta, head of the Abbott Foundation, allied with Ghost to take down Tony Stark/Iron Man--Iron Man: The Inevitable#1
• or any other "Madame" (lots of them!) or "Spy-" characters

images: (without ads)
Popples#1, cover (main image)
   p14, pan4 (headshot)

Appearances:
Popples#1 (December, 1986) - Stan Kay (writer), John Costanza (pencils), Jacqueline Roettcher (inks), Sid Jacobson (editor)

First posted: 09/28/2026
Last updated: 04/07/2026

Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.

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