On this day, 27 October 1973: Cor!!
Cover artwork: Joe Colquhoun (The Goodies), Alf Saporito (Gus Giggles)
On this day, 27 October 1973 … In what must have been quite a coup for the editorial team on Cor!!, in 1973 TV’s The Goodies signed to the comic, and appeared in 52 double-page episodes throughout the year. The Cambridge Footlights-originated trio of Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie were hot property in the 1970s and stars of their own comedy show which ran for the entire decade. It was an imaginative and hugely popular show, each episode of which followed a very basic theme, quest or challenge for the Goodies, who would often travel about on a three-seater bicycle, to interpret with increasingly surreal and bonkers results. This format lent itself well to adaptation in comic strip form, and the brilliant Joe Colquhoun – better known to us now for his work on Charley’s War, Johnny Red and Roy of the Rovers – demonstrated an accomplished cartooning style to bring the goody goody yum yum threesome to life.
The Goodies: Joe Colquhoun (artist)
Andy’s Ants: Terry Bave (artist)
Chalky: Arthur Martin? (artist)
Ivor Lott and Tony Broke: Jim Crocker (artist)
Tomboy: Mike Atwell (artist)
The Slimms: Terry Bave (artist)
The Goodies: Joe Colquhoun (artist)
Val’s Vanishing Cream: Mike Lacey (artist)
Pocket Cor-mic: Chalky: Arthur Martin? (artist)
Rat-trap: Giorgio Giorgetti (artist)
Rat-trap: Giorgio Giorgetti (artist)
Jasper the Grasper: Trevor Metcalfe (artist)
Willy Worry: David Jenner (artist)
Teacher’s Pet: Norman Mansbridge (artist)
The Gasworks Gang: Frank McDiarmid (artist)
Hire a Horror: Robert Nixon (artist)
