Smash!
#1
(5 February 1966)
IPC,
1966 Series
- Price
- 7d [0-0-7 GBP]
- Pages
- 24
- Indicia Frequency
- Every Thursday
- On-sale Date
- 1966-02-03
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Odhams Press Ltd
- Editing
- Alf Wallace (credited as Alf); Albert Cosser (credited as Cos)
[no title indexed]
Ronnie Rich / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh boy! It's pocket money day again!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Ronnie Rich; Mrs. Rich
[no title indexed]
The Ghost Patrol / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's the end of the road, lads
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Sergeant Joe Timm; Private Paddy; Artax
- Reprints
- Reprints "The Phantom Patrol" from Odham's Swift comic.
[no title indexed]
Bad Penny / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is a smashing water pistol
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Bad Penny
[no title indexed]
Percy's Pets / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Surprise, surprise!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Percy Potts; Mr. Potts; “Curly” Carruthers
In Next Week's Smash!
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- The Editor
Indexer Notes
House ad for the next issue, and the free "jumping frog" gift therein.
[no title indexed]
Space Jinx / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's all systems go, sir
- Genre
- humour; science fiction
- Characters
- Jinx
Indexer Notes
Colour, centre-pages comic strip
Brian's Brain [Part One]
Brian's Brain / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- science fiction; adventure; children
- Characters
- Brian Kingsley; Professor Kingsley
[no title indexed]
The Nervs / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- No doubt all of you have had cause to wonder...
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Fatty; The Nervs
[no title indexed]
Queen of the Seas / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hoi! Cap'n Drip!
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Bertrum Bloop; Captain Enoch Drip
- Reprints
in [no title indexed]
The Tellybugs / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yeah – Yeah – Yeah – Yeah – Woooooo!
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Mr. Goggs; The Tellybugs; The Earwigs
[no title indexed]
The Swots and The Blots / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- And now we come to the moment you've all been waiting for...
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- The Swots; The Blots
Indexer Notes
According to Lew Stringer in his blog "Blimey" Leo Baxendale didn't illustrate any of the "Swots and the Blots" strips until #159. Ron Spencer and Mike Lacey imitated Baxendale's style and worked on the strip [minus #159] until Smash was revamped in March 1970 [#163]. Leo Baxendale then drew the strip until its cancellation.
[no title indexed]
Charlie's Choice / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh no! There's Bully Bates!
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Charlie Brown; “Bully” Bates; Ivan; Granny Haddock
Indexer Notes
The Granny Haddock character is a parody of the then popular TV cook Fanny Craddock.
[no title indexed]
Grimly Feendish / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hello folks, I'm Grimly Feendish!
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Grimly Feendish; Stan
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Free Inside: The Gun With the Big Bang
-
1.
["Oh boy! It's pocket money day again!"]
Ronnie Rich -
2.
["It's the end of the road, lads"]
The Ghost Patrol -
3.
["This is a smashing water pistol"]
Bad Penny -
4.
["Surprise, surprise!"]
Percy's Pets -
5.
In Next Week's Smash!
-
6.
["It's all systems go, sir"]
Space Jinx -
7.
Brian's Brain [Part One]
Brian's Brain -
8.
["No doubt all of you have had cause to wonder..."]
The Nervs -
9.
["Hoi! Cap'n Drip!"]
Queen of the Seas -
10.
["Yeah – Yeah – Yeah – Yeah – Woooooo!"]
The Tellybugs -
11.
Black Magic
Meet...Mister Knowall -
12.
["And now we come to the moment you've all been waiting for..."]
The Swots and The Blots -
13.
["Oh no! There's Bully Bates!"]
Charlie's Choice -
14.
["Hello folks, I'm Grimly Feendish!"]
Grimly Feendish
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Paul Green
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Steve Jenner
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