Corkey’s Academy
Boys’ story papers – the
forerunners of comics – relied heavily on school stories to fill their pages.
But in truth one school could seem to a reader very much like any other. What
to do? Publishers and authors had to find more and more ingenious (or maybe
just plain daft) ways to make a school stand out from the others.
Corkey’s Academy which ran in
the Rover in the 1920s featured Corkey who was an ordinary grammar
school boy who through fate inherited a nearby posh Academy. Corkey takes over
the management of the Academy while also still attending the grammar as a
pupil.
In this episode from 1927
there’s a rebellion at the Academy and Corkey is on the receiving end of a
whacking ….
As published in
the Rover 19 March 1927.
Picture credit: Rover.
Copies of the Rover are available on the Comicbookplus website.
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