Bad Taste no. 73: the gigantic chicken

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 148, 22 May 1980 · p. 14 of the scan · 102 words

The scan: sc-n148-may-22-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the head of page 14, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). Number 73 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: the gigantic chicken.

page 14 of the scan

Five-panel surreal cartoon strip: a man marvels at a gigantic egg ("What a gigantic chicken!"), a figure with a hammer cracks it ("Poltroon!") and flying frogs burst out. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 73, Socialist Challenge no. 148, 22 May 1980, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac #73.

2. "What a gigantic chicken!" (A giant egg under the moon.)

3. (A figure smashes the egg with a hammer:) "Poltroon!"

4. (The man lies flattened among broken shell and leaping frogs.)

5. "Eek! Flying frogs!"

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