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Monday, September 17, 2012

COR!! 1980 SUMMER SPECIAL



COR!! 1980 Summer Special. 45p, 64 pages

Here's the summary of the contents: Andy’s Ants (3 episodes – 1 new and 2 reprints), The Gasworks Gang (3 reprints from old COR!! weeklies), Ivor Lott and Tony Broke (4 episodes – 1 new and 3 reprints), Whacky (2 episodes in b/w and 2 episodes in full colour), Teacher’s Pet (2 episodes), Football Madd (new episode, initialled C.W.), Jelly Baby, Hire A Horror (5 reprints from old COR!! weeklies – 3 in full colour and 2 in b/w), Tomboy, Tease Break puzzles, Just Joking (3 instalments),  Nightmare (new episode by Les Barton), Donovan’s Dad, Benny Bendo, Val’s Vanishing Cream (in full colour), Tricky Dicky, The Slimms, Gus Gags, The Hand, Chalky, Webster.

There’s hardly anything interesting about the Special at all. There were two one-offs: The Hand and The Webster, both familiar to readers of Shiver and Shake.  The Webster set is drawn so poorly that it deserves a place in the gallery of the worst artwork ever to have appeared in a COR!! comic. Here is the beginning of the 4-pager:


The quality of new artwork contrasted sharply with reprints from old COR!! weeklies included in the Special. Here are some examples:



2 comments:

  1. I think Webster was always drawn by Artie Jackson.

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  2. The majority if not all of Webster sets in Shiver and Shake were by Terry Bave. He mentions drawing Webster in the series of articles about his work in Golden Fun fanzine.

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