Bad Taste: Geoffrey Prime

The scan: sc-no271.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the foot of page 11, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). One of Cormac's Bad Taste strips: Geoffrey Prime. Note: unnumbered; after the conviction of the GCHQ spy Geoffrey Prime (November 1982).

page 11 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip after the Geoffrey Prime spy case: the American businessman who couldn't keep his business out of other people's noses, the Russians who can't keep their noses out of ours — would Prime have fared better at Cambridge, like Sir Anthony Blunt? Consider the score: spying 35, indecent assault 3. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 271, 26 November 1982, page 11. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac. "Have you heard about the American businessman who couldn't keep his business out of other people's noses?"

2. "Not to be confused with the dreadful Russians who can't keep their noses out of our business!"

3. "Do you think Mister Prime would have fared better had he gone to Cambridge like Sir An ..." "Never mind the class issue, son!"

4. "Just consider the score. Spying — 35, Indecent Assault — 3"