Spy magazine is back — at least for October — reprinting some of its early issues on Substack that feature now-President Donald Trump. The latest installment revisits the "body double" Trump wanted the magazine to use.

The satirical monthly, famed for skewering New York elites, ceased publication in 1998. Speaking to the New York Times earlier this month about the reprints, co-creators Graydon Carter and Kurt Anderson recalled one of the magazine's most enduring fixations: Trump's tiny hands.

"Graydon said, 'This guy, Donald Trump,' — whom we'd barely heard of — 'for a tall guy, he has the shortest fingers I've ever seen,'" Anderson recalled.

That observation may explain the post published Thursday from Spy featuring its April 1988 cover lauding "heck of a guy" Donald Trump — an issue archived on Google Books. According to the Substack, it marked Trump's first appearance on the magazine's cover, part of the "Nice" issue.

"His body double was a Spy co-founder, which explains the normal-length fingers," the Substack recalled.

"The same issue's Party Poop feature captured Trump at a society dinner where he seemed to be practicing the alert pose that he has more recently made famous at the World Cup, Lindsey Graham's funeral and innumerable cabinet meetings," the Substack continued, recalling the photos.

In the images, Trump — then 41 — appears slumped in a tuxedo, pants hiked up over his stomach, holding a cloth napkin in his left hand like a hot dog while seeming to reach for something in his right pocket. The caption reads: "Donald Trump demonstrates the fine posture and sparkling joie de vivre of the high-class, swanky real estate mogul he is."

Spy became best known for mocking Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian." Carter, for years, received photos of Trump with his hands circled in gold Sharpie — Trump evidently felt the photos made his hands look normally sized. The joke has followed him for decades, long before bruises began appearing on top of his hands and he started using makeup to cover them up.

The taunt re-entered national politics in 2016, when then-Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) mocked Trump's "small hands" during a GOP debate. Trump was so rattled that he began discussing the size of his manhood from the debate stage. From then on, he derided Rubio as "Little Marco" and repeatedly showed off his hand size.

The episode helped carry a gag that began in Spy's coverage of Trump's New York real-estate persona into a national political setting.

More recently, The Hollywood Reporter used a handprint Trump left in concrete to create a printable template that lets people compare their own hands with a life-size outline of the president's.