Smash!
#135
(31 August 1968)
IPC,
1966 Series
- Price
- 7d [0-0-7 GBP]
- Pages
- 24
- Indicia Frequency
- Every Monday
- On-sale Date
- 1968-07-26
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Odhams Press Ltd
- Brand
-
A Power Comic
- Editing
- Alf Wallace (credited as Alf) (editor); Albert Cosser (credited as Cos) (editor)
[no title indexed]
The Swots and The Blots / cover / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- One of the Blots has nicked all the bingo balls at a holiday camp...
- Genre
- humour; children
Indexer Notes
First page in colour on cover, second page on inside front cover in black and white.
[no title indexed]
Brian's Brain / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- - she's sinking, Brian!
- Genre
- adventure; science fiction; children
- Characters
- Brian Kingsley; Duffy Rolls; The Brain; Commander Harcourt
Indexer Notes
Final episode of this story.
[no title indexed]
Percy's Pets / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, boy! Mum's letting me fry the bangers for tea! - slurp!
- Genre
- humour; animal; children
- Characters
- Percy; mum; snake; Harry hedgehog; Oliver ostrich
Enter: The Leap-Frog!
Daredevil [Marvel] / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Matt Murdock has a double problem! To quieten the suspicions of Karen and Foggy, he invents a twin brother,
- Feature Logo
Daredevil, the Man Without Fear!- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Foggy Nelson; Karen Page; Mike Murdock [actually Matt Murdock] (introduction); Leap-Frog (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- In a moment of panic to protect his secret identity, Matt tells Foggy and Karen that DD is really his twin brother, Mike. So of course they want to meet him and they do. Oh, and Leap-Frog hops into town as well.
Indexer Notes
Instalment of the original story, reformatted.
[no title indexed]
The Man From B.U.N.G.L.E. / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Larry the man from Bungle is in castle Eek that was reported to be haunted -
- Genre
- humour; spy
- Characters
- The Man From B.U.N.G.L.E. [Larry]; Grimly Fiendish; Squelch
Indexer Notes
The Man From B.U.N.G.L.E. is referred to as Larry in this story.
[no title indexed]
Bad Penny / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Come back, Penny - it's time for your bath!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Bad Penny; mum; diner; waiter; two men in pub; policeman; window cleaner
Indexer Notes
Art looks like the work of Mike Brown who drew in a Leo Baxendale style but could be Baxendale himself.
[no title indexed]
The Rubber Man / comic story / 1.5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In the film producer's office...
- Genre
- adventure; superhero; western-frontier
- Characters
- Rubber Man; Sam Hutt; Hiram C. Hamm (film producer); Rory Royal (film star); Redbeard
[no title indexed]
Meet...Mister Knowall / activity / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Next time you get a drinking straw, save it for this super bit of Knowall trickery.
- Characters
- Mister Knowall
Indexer Notes
Tricks and games for readers to play.
[no title indexed]
Smash-chat / letters page / 1 page
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Page includes adverts for stamp collecting sets and Subbuteo football games. (0.625 of letters and 0.375 of adverts).
[no title indexed]
Charlie's Choice / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- We can never get Charlie in the water - he's always watching that blooming telly of his!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Charlie; Blackbeard
[no title indexed]
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The easy way off Koom's island is to make a radio transmitter from some of the components of all the electronic control equipment!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Tyrone Koom; Alfred; Madame Zodiac; Pretty Boy Floy
Indexer Notes
Ledger Syndicate reprint.
[no title indexed]
The Nervs / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's flippin' hard work pumping blood in an' out of Fatty's heart! -
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Fatty; various nervs; mum; truck driver
[no title indexed]
Ronnie Rich / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Coo! - where's Ron going with those old togs?
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Ronnie Rich; policeman; man selling balloons; woman in wheelchair
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["One of the Blots has nicked all the bingo balls at a holiday camp..."]
The Swots and The Blots -
1.
["- she's sinking, Brian!"]
Brian's Brain -
2.
["Girls are "people" too!...just like the rest of us (fellers, we mean!)."]
News from the Floor of 64 -
3.
["Oh, boy! Mum's letting me fry the bangers for tea! - slurp!"]
Percy's Pets -
4.
["36 Fleets of Impy Super Cars to be Won - Free!"]
-
5.
Enter: The Leap-Frog!
Daredevil [Marvel] -
6.
["Smash! and Pow!"]
-
7.
No. 3 Lewis & Clark
Famous Wayfinders -
8.
["Larry the man from Bungle is in castle Eek that was reported to be haunted -"]
The Man From B.U.N.G.L.E. -
9.
["Come back, Penny - it's time for your bath!"]
Bad Penny -
10.
["In the film producer's office..."]
The Rubber Man -
11.
["Next time you get a drinking straw, save it for this super bit of Knowall trickery."]
Meet...Mister Knowall -
12.
[no title indexed]
Smash-chat -
13.
["We can never get Charlie in the water - he's always watching that blooming telly of his!"]
Charlie's Choice -
14.
["The easy way off Koom's island is to make a radio transmitter from some of the components of all the electronic control equipment!"]
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder -
15.
["It's flippin' hard work pumping blood in an' out of Fatty's heart! -"]
The Nervs -
16.
["Coo! - where's Ron going with those old togs?"]
Ronnie Rich
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