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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

A LOOK AT COR!! STRIPS: ZOO SUE


Zoo Sue. Sue had lived in the Zoo all her life because her Dad was Chief Zoo Keeper. The lass was quite a freak - she could instantly conjure up different animal body parts with some ghastly results. No explanation was offered as to how she came to possess the “talent” but Sue was probably the scariest Cortown citizen. The first episode (in which she sprouted an elephant’s trunk, tusks and ears to teach two bullying boys a lesson) was in the issue dated 29th July, 1972 (No. 113). The feature was dropped after just 23 weeks – the last installment was in the 1972 Christmas issue of COR!! with the cover date of 30th December (No. 135). Illustrator’s name is unknown to me, but the same artist contributed a number of episodes of Teacher’s Pet in COR!! and also drew Boney in KNOCKOUT. 

From COR! issue dated 2nd September, 1972 (No. 118)
From COR!! issue dated 25th November, 1972 (No. 130)

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  1. Peter GrayJuly 4, 2012 at 7:56 PM

    Animalad came in whoopee by Mitch later..obviously inspired by this strip..

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  2. RabsmithJuly 6, 2012 at 9:30 PM

    I think the artist on this was Paul White, who later done a version of Winker Watson for Dandy in the early 80s.

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