IPC carried on publishing COR!! annuals and holiday specials long after
the weekly folded: the last special came out in the summer of 1983 and the last
annual – in the end of 1985. As was the
case with many IPC annuals and specials, COR!! publications were chock-full of
reprints and sets drawn by artists other than the regular ones. Some reprints
were kept in their original format, while some had their panels resized and given
the odd full-colour facelift. As a general pattern, one-page sets from the
weeklies were turned into two-pagers while two-pagers became four-pagers.
The books and the specials are less fun to
review but since this blog attempts to be a comprehensive resource for COR!! enthusiasts,
I will go through all of them. I intend to show front covers and provide details
about contents, price and the number of pages. One-off strips that didn’t
appear in the weeklies will be covered under the headline of the respective
annual or special, while strips that didn’t appear in the weeklies but were
printed in more than one annual or special will receive a dedicated blogpost
later on. I will identify reprints and new episodes as such where I can.
It will be amazing when you've finished it..
ReplyDeleteYou've done it so quickly!!