Bad Taste no. 12: revelations

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 60, 24 August 1978 · p. 7 of the scan · 146 words

The scan: sc-n60-aug-24-1978.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the foot of page 7, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). Number 12 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: revelations.

page 7 of the scan

Four-panel cartoon strip: a series of absurd press "revelations" — Archbishop Ó Fiaich as spokesman for the Provisionals, the Daily Mirror as voice of the far left — ending with the Communist Party revealed as a communist party. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 12, Socialist Challenge no. 60, 24 August 1978, page 7. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac #12. (A child in a cot:) "My daddy used to tell me stories but he never lied like this!"

2. "Archbishop O'Fiach has revealed himself as spokesman for the Provisionals!"

3. "The Daily Mirror has revealed itself to be the voice of the extreme left of the Labour Party!!"

4. "And one of these days the Communist Party of Great Britain will reveal itself to be ...." "... a communist party!"

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