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Hi and welcome to my blog about comics from other people’s childhood! It is dedicated primarily to British humour comics of the 60s and 70s. The reason they are not from my childhood is simply because I didn’t live in the UK back then (nor do I live there now). I knew next to nothing about them until fairly recently but since then I’ve developed a strong liking for the medium and amassed a large collection, including a number of complete or near complete sets. My intention is to use this blog as a channel for sharing my humble knowledge about different titles, favourite characters and creators as I slowly research my collection.

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

A LOOK AT COR!! STRIPS: SWOPPER STAN


Swopper Stan was a strip about a kid who swopped everything for anything with all kinds of humorous consequences. It ran from 12th September, 1970 until 14th April, 1973 (Issues 15 – 150) and didn’t miss a single week during the period. The regular illustrator was Mike Lacey.

From COR!! issue dated 14th Novemner, 1970 (No. 24)

From COR!! issue dated 30th December, 1972 (No. 135 - Christmas edition).
Stan does some swopping with other COR!! characters - Micky Madd, Tricky Dicky,
Chalky and Jasper the Grasper

1 comment:

  1. From 26/5/79, Whoopee published Ivor Swap drawn by John Geering, a retread of Stan's bartering adventures. On 21/7, Spoilsport made an appearance, as did Bored Eddie, Micky Madd and Whacky on 11/8, looking nothing like the originals; Eddie "bore" (ho, ho) the closest resemblance but appeared to have had a perm! Ivor's strips were more sporadic after the Cheeky merger of 1980 but he turned up every so often as part of the Merry-Go-Round feature.

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