This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the foot of page 5, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). Number 11 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: the prison officer advert.
Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 11, Socialist Challenge no. 59, 17 August 1978, page 5. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.
The strip, panel by panel
1. BAD TASTE. (A recruiting advertisement:) "Prison Officer — a job to be proud of."
2. "If you remember the television plays 'Law and Order' and the horrifying and depressing final episode 'The Prisoner's Tale'." (Cell bars.)
3. (A television set.) "Well, last night on the box there was a long commercial for the Prison Service —"
4. "And which did I see acting an inmate but the guy who did Jack Lynn (last seen being fitted up by the filth, then tortured and degraded by the screws)." "It raises an interesting philosophical problem!"
5. "Is it possible for an advertising agency to have a sense of humour?" (Signed "Cormac #11".)
