1977 COR!! HOLIDAY SPECIAL

1977 COR!! Holiday Special was still priced 25p and 64 pages thick. Here is a summary of the contents: Whacky (3 episodes), Andy’s Ants (new episode), Hire A Horror (2 Reg Parlett reprints from old COR!! weeklies (one in full colour) + one new episode in full colour), The Gasworks Gang (one new 3-page episode and 2 reprints from old from COR!! weeklies), Donovan’s Dad (2 episodes, one by Les Barton and one by Tery Bave), The Slimms (signed by Terry Bave), Football Madd (3 episodes), Val’s Vanishing Cream (in full colour), Tease Break feature, Mike’s Magic Mould (2 reprints from old COR!! weeklies), Gus Gorilla (3 episodes, one in full colour), Ivor Lott and Tony Broke (1 new episode, 5 reprints from old COR!! weekly, including one in full colour),  Jack Pott, Tricky Dicky, Chalky, Animal Crackers jokes (2 pages), Night Mare (by Les Barton), Willy Worry, Tomboy, Jelly Baby, Teacher’s Pet.

This was the only COR!! special (or annual) ever with no one-offs or ‘imported’ strips. As usual, the majority of sets in the Holiday Special were themed around summer holidays with characters chilling at the seaside…