
He only has two hairs on his head and wears a white shirt with a black bowtie and red trousers. His real name, Mortadelo, comes from mortadela, a kind of sausage. He holds a grudge against Bacterio because he used to have lush hair until Bacterio offered him a supposed medicine against baldness, which actually made his hair fall out.
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His favourite hobby is wearing all sorts of (sometimes outrageous) disguises - professional and historical clothes and gear, animals, inanimate objects, even small-sized vehicles like miniature blimps and mopeds - which he mostly dons for special tasks or when he is on the run from Phil or his boss, and which all include his signature collar which obscures part of his mouth. He is always fighting with Phil, his partner, mostly because he tends to mess things up, usually to Phil's discomfort: his profound lack of skills to make his disguises believable and common sense have often made him a danger to everyone around him. Mort is a bald detective with pebble glasses and a long nose who usually wears a black frock coat.

Mort & Phil at the 2016 Barcelona International Comic Fair Mort (Mortadelo) Mission: Save Earth), marking the 50th anniversary of the series.
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A second movie was released in 2008, Mortadelo y Filemón.

There are two live-action movies based on the series, one of them made in 2003 in Spain titled La gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón ( Mort & Phil: The Big Adventure).
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One animated series and some animated films were also produced. This attracted attention after the 9/11 attacks of 2001. In the final page of the album El 35 aniversario (1993), featured a New York scene with an aeroplane crashing into the World Trade Center. Examples have included a water tap sprouting from a tree, two mice chatting, and a vase containing a foot or an eggplant. Ibáñez likes to introduce whimsies unrelated to the action, especially in front covers. After the 1980s, the albums have featured current news, like computer sabotage, the AVE, Islamic terrorism, Spanish and European politics, and specials for the Olympic Games and the football World Cup. Outside Spain, the series is especially popular in Germany as Clever & Smart. ("grandmother"), they interact with their boss, the bad-tempered Superintendente Vicente with Professor Bacterio, a black-bearded, disastrous scientist parodying James Bond's Q and with the fat, blonde secretary Ofelia, a parody of Moneypenny, whose attempts at seducing Mort or Phil always fail. (Spanish for "aunt", a parody of the CIA), which combats "enemy organisations" like R.A.N.A. The results are almost invariably extremely violent, and most often directed towards Phil. Mort and Phil are a pair of idiots, and no matter what kind of mission they are assigned they always manage to get it wrong. Thanks to cartoon physics, the effects rarely last more than one panel. The series frequently uses slapstick humour whereby the characters constantly suffer mishaps - such as falls from heights, explosions, and being crushed by heavy objects.


(a spoof on CIA), the Técnicos de Investigación Aeroterráquea (Aeroterrestrial Investigation Technicians). Initially, they were private detectives operating as Mortadelo y Filemón, Agencia de Información, but now both serve as secret agents in the T.I.A. The series features Mort (Spanish: Mortadelo), the tall, bald master of disguise named after mortadella sausage, and his bossy partner, the shorter, pudgier Phil (Spanish: Filemón) Pi. It appeared for the first time in 1958 in the children's comic-book magazine Pulgarcito drawn by Francisco Ibáñez. Mort & Phil ( Spanish: Mortadelo y Filemón) is a Spanish comic series, published in more than a dozen languages. Mortadelo, Filemón, El Súper, Ofelia and Bacterio Humor, Political satire, Slapstick, Farce, Adventure JSTOR ( September 2007) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
