Mike's
Magic Mould was another extremely short-lived
feature about a little lad Mike and his lump of magic modelling mould that
could change its shape and size. In part
2 of the article A Line in Chuckles
in the Summer 1986 edition of GOLDEN FUN Terry Bave recalled that the idea was
conceived by his wife Sheila but had never been taken beyond a simple sketch
until Bob Paynter invited the Baves to create the necessary characters for
COR!! They submitted the first scripts but having by then committed themselves
to taking two other weekly strips in COR!! they reluctantly handed Mike’s Magic Mould over to another
artist. I wonder who that artist was?
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| From COR!! issue dated 20th June, 1970 (No. 3) |
Mike's Magic Mould
started in the first issue of COR!! and mustered only 12 episodes. It bowed out
on 26th September, 1970 (No. 17), having missed the following dates: 25th July
1970, 1st and 22nd August 1970, 5th and 19th September, 1970 (Nos. 8, 9, 12,
14, 16).
It’s not hard to see why this strip wasn’t around very long – too reminiscent of Odd-Ball. Also, unlike Nobby’s pal, the mould evidently wasn’t anthropomorphic; it’d have to have been sentient for there to be any reader identification. Who’d have read Korky the Ordinary Cat? No idea who the artist is, I’m afraid.
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