CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: PART TWO OF COR!! #1...

Sunday, 15 December 2013

PART TWO OF COR!! #1...

Here we are with the second half of COR!! #1 from June 1970. There's some lovely REG PARLETT and MIKE NOBLE art contained amongst the other gems, and you now have the complete first issue of this classic comic from the past to drool over. Where else can you find such goodies for absolutely nothing? (Don't tell me - I can't stand the competition!)

8 comments:

baab said...: Kid Chameleon.I forgot about him.

This was a favourite of mine,obviously because he is a kid with powers.
About fifty per cent of the rest are lost to my memory.
Thanks for that.; 16 December 2013 at 07:45
Kid said...: 'A kid with powers' - that's ME, that is. It's amazing how much of it is instantly forgettable - and equally amazing how much is derivative. Hire-A-Horror is the same as Rent-A-Ghost in Buster, Stone-Age Brit is the dame as Glugg in Wham! and Tricky Dicky is just another Roger the Dodger. I do like the Reg Parlett strips 'though - he was simply a superb cartoonist.; 16 December 2013 at 09:42
baab said...: His artwork is just full of life and really dynamic.
Little Geyser,I probably just accepted it when i was young and naive but what is that all about?
Oh thats right,the adventures of a little water spout.

I agree,It is amazing how forgettable some of them are.
There was a big push for COR! as well.
Did this appear in another comic as one of those pink paper promotional inserts?
(am I remembering this correctly?)
The gorilla logo was great.
I was six.
How do I remember this and I still have to ask what year it is?

Nice article.; 16 December 2013 at 10:01
Kid said...: Regarding the promotional insert, Baab, it very well may have done. I know there was one, I just can't remember what was on it. (I'll have to check through my back issues of Smash! one day and have a look - it's bound to be in one of them.) And, in case you hadn't twigged yet, it was 1970.; 16 December 2013 at 10:10
baab said...: Ha!
I meant, I have to ask what year it is on a daily basis!

I have been thinking about the pink inserts,and the one I really remember was for a comic with the old 'paper banger' or 'cracker' as a free gift.
I don't know what comic it was in or the comic being promoted.

Were these inserts a common thing in the british comics?; 16 December 2013 at 16:53
Kid said...: The inserts were indeed common, Baab - as was the 'paper banger/cracker' free gift.; 16 December 2013 at 18:49
Dougie said...: I laways liked a "Thunderbang" or a kazoo or warbler.

Kid Chameleon is beautiful. I'd like to see some Whizzers from Ozz of Topper fame.; 21 December 2013 at 12:32
Kid said...: And so you shall, Dougie, before too long. (I hadn't forgotten - honest.); 21 December 2013 at 15:11

About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artist on various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artist and spot illustrator on pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

For MARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as a restoration artist for MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

Have also made TV appearances as a collector of memorabilia.

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Just some of the titles I worked on are:

2000 A.D. * JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE * DICEMAN * SONIC The COMIC * JUDGE DREDD, LAWMAN Of The FUTURE * CRISIS * REVOLVER * EAGLE * TIGER * BATTLE ACTION-FORCE * BUSTER * WHIZZER & CHIPS * WHOOPEE * NIPPER * SCHOOL FUN * ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE * The REAL GHOSTBUSTERS * DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE * COUNT DUCKULA * RUGRATS * The TRANSFORMERS * DEATH'S HEAD * THUNDERCATS * GALAXY RANGERS * DRAGON'S CLAWS * SINDY * MARVEL MASTERWORKS * The TROLLS * LOADED * INFERNO * WARHAMMER * ROSE BLACK.

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