Spiff and Hercules is a French comic strip titled featuring an anthropomorphic brown-yellow dog named Spiff and a black-white cat named Hercules, who, despite being best friends, are constantly fighting in a friendship/hate relationship. The character Spiff was created by José Cabrero Arnal for the French Communist Party newspaper L'Humanité on 28 March 1948 and the cat Hercules was introduced two years later. The characters' nemesis is Krapulax, who despite his infant-like features always has a diabolical plot in store. Spiff later got his own magazine Pif Gadget, which was very popular as not only did it include several different comic strips, but offered a toy gadget in each issue. He was also the magazine's mascot. Hercules also got his own version of Spiff's magazine, this one called Super Hercules, but his magazine was more joke-oriented. A series of 65 26-minute animated cartoons featuring the characters was produced in 1989 by Europe Images/M5 in France. Each program consisted of two episodes. United Kingdom television station Channel 4 aired the series in 1993. The adventures of Spiff also appeared as Spiff and Hercules in English translation in the British communist newspaper the Daily Worker (later The Morning Star) until the mid-1970s. Animated series Episodes 001. La guerre du feu 002. Taxi folies 003. Main basse sur l'orteil sacré 004. Suspicion 005. Farfouille s'embrouille 006. A la poursuite du grodeoptère 007. Ballade pour une valise 008. Hold up on the rock 009. Chercheurs d'or 010. Coup dur pour la sculpture 011. Pif détective 012. Père Noël en stock 013. La croisière infernale 014. Hot dog mic mac 015. Drôle de bobine 016. Herculopolis 017. Duel 018. Chut bébé dort 019. On a volé Sésame 020. Grand hôtel 021. Le match du siècle 022. Mini plaies mini bosses 023. Pif et la boule de cristal 024. Du rififi sur l'île 025. Le fakir va au tapis 026. Les toqués de la grande cuisine 027. Descente aux enfers 028. Pif et Hercule au bagne 029. Les as du ciel 030. Nos amis les bêtes 031. Les chevaliers de la Table Ronde 032. Pif et Hercule vont au ciel 033. Les vacances de Pif 034. Obstruction votre honneur 035. Farfouille suscite des vocations 036. Le fantôme misanthrope 037. Deux faux mages bien faits 038. N'oubliez pas le guide 039. Pôles d'attractions 040. Les envahisseurs 041. Têtes de l'art 042. Jour de chance 043. Pif et