This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the head of page 14, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). One of Cormac's Bad Taste strips: the RUC.
Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 52, 29 June 1978, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.
The strip, panel by panel
1. BAD TASTE by Cormac. (A figure with a cosh and a map of Ireland on a plinth inscribed "Ireland — [illegible] suffered for thee"; a small tourist asks:) "What ever happened to Socialist Realism?"
2. Caption: "Please ignore the screams of pain and the moans of horror and despair." (A screaming face over a skyline.)
3. Caption: "It is only the sound of insane republicans trying to discredit the R.U.C. ..." (A hand grips the bars of a cell.)
4. Caption: "... by inflicting injuries on themselves!" (A man in a cell punches himself in the face while a grinning policeman looks on.)
