Bad Taste no. 30: remembering the seventies

The scan: sc-n79-jan-18-1979.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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). Number 30 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: remembering the seventies.

page 14 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: a man in a hat walks through the snow wondering what people will remember of the seventies — Vietnam, the Shah, Africa — or little Roy Mason. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 30, Socialist Challenge no. 79, 18 January 1979, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac #30.

2. Thinks: "The last year of the decade has begun ..."

3. "And in times to come what will people remember of the seventies?"

4. "The victory of the Vietnamese? The fall of the Shah? The revolutions in Africa?"

5. (Walking away through the snow.) "But will they remember little Roy Mason? The man who did something or other in some place! Or did he?"