Smash!
#136
(7 September 1968)
IPC,
1966 Series
- Price
- 7d [0-0-7 GBP]
- Pages
- 24
- Indicia Frequency
- Every Monday
- On-sale Date
- 1968-09-02
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Odhams Press Ltd
- Brand
-
A Power Comic
- Editing
- Alf Wallace (credited as Alf) (editor); Bob Bartholomew (credited as Bart) (editor)
[no title indexed]
Brian's Brain / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lake Drednor, eight miles long, almost a mile across at its widest part
- Genre
- adventure; science fiction; children
- Characters
- Brian Kingsley; Duffy Rolls; The Brain; Julius Pilt (villain) Frank Merrow (farmer) Sue Merrow (his 12 year old daughter); Mrs. Merrow
Indexer Notes
First episode.
[no title indexed]
Percy's Pets / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- G-gulp! - I'm getting too fat! I'll have to get some exercise!
- Genre
- humour; animal; children
- Characters
- Percy; pet elephant; policeman
Enter: The Leap-Frog!
Daredevil / comic story / 3 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]
Grimly Feendish / comic story / 0.2 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My most fantastic invention yet, folks!
- Characters
- Grimly Feendish; Interpol Eskimo agent 00½
[no title indexed]
The Man From B.U.N.G.L.E. / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Larry is being pursued through the sewers of castle Eek by Grimly Feendish on a burp-propelled Squelch!
- Genre
- humour; spy
- Characters
- The Man From B.U.N.G.L.E. [Larry]; Grimly Fiendish; Squelch
[no title indexed]
Bad Penny / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm fed up to the teeth with you, you little reptile! Stop it at once!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Bad Penny; mum; dad; postman
[no title indexed]
The Rubber Man / comic story / 1.5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Argh!
- Genre
- adventure; superhero; western-frontier
- Characters
- Rubber Man; Sam Hutt; Hiram C. Hamm (film producer); Redbeard
Indexer Notes
Redbeard is revealed to be Hiram C. Hamm.
[no title indexed]
Meet...Mister Knowall / activity / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You have silver and copper coins in your pocket amounting to £1 5s. 11d.
- Characters
- Mister Knowall
Indexer Notes
Tricks and games for readers to play.
[no title indexed]
Charlie's Choice / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I think I'll pop back home to my favourite chair and see if there's anything good on the telly!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Charlie; Spike; Marshall Matt Dillon; Fanny Craddock (TV cook); tv wrestler; John Steed; Tara King; dad
Indexer Notes
John Steed and Tara King are TV's The Avengers.
[no title indexed]
Batman and Robin / comic story / 1.5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The ground -- vibrating! Even the birds are leaving!
- Feature Logo
Batman with Robin - The Boy Wonder [face left]- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Tyrone Koom; Alfred; Madame Zodiac; Pretty Boy Floy
Indexer Notes
from Batman with Robin - The Boy Wonder Sunday (Ledger Syndicate) 196X-XX-XX - 196X-XX-XX
[no title indexed]
The Nervs / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- M'mmm! At the double, mum! That grub smells delicious!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Fatty; various nervs; mum
[no title indexed]
Ronnie Rich / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- That old ragman calls today - I'll give him some of Ron's old clothes!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Ronnie Rich; mum; ragman; Italian barber
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["How about a happy holiday snap lads?"]
The Swots and Blots -
1.
["Lake Drednor, eight miles long, almost a mile across at its widest part"]
Brian's Brain -
2.
["Well, we've done it again!"]
News from the Floor of 64 -
3.
["G-gulp! - I'm getting too fat! I'll have to get some exercise!"]
Percy's Pets -
4.
Enter: The Leap-Frog!
Daredevil -
5.
["Now...we've taken the lid off the best kept secret in comicdom..."]
Smash! and Pow! -
6.
[no title indexed]
Smash-chat -
7.
["My most fantastic invention yet, folks!"]
Grimly Feendish -
8.
["36 Fleets of Impy Super Cars to be Won - Free!"]
-
9.
["Larry is being pursued through the sewers of castle Eek by Grimly Feendish on a burp-propelled Squelch!"]
The Man From B.U.N.G.L.E. -
10.
["I'm fed up to the teeth with you, you little reptile! Stop it at once!"]
Bad Penny -
11.
["Argh!"]
The Rubber Man -
12.
["You have silver and copper coins in your pocket amounting to £1 5s. 11d."]
Meet...Mister Knowall -
13.
["I think I'll pop back home to my favourite chair and see if there's anything good on the telly!"]
Charlie's Choice -
14.
["The ground -- vibrating! Even the birds are leaving!"]
Batman and Robin -
15.
["And so begins..."]
-
16.
["M'mmm! At the double, mum! That grub smells delicious!"]
The Nervs -
17.
["That old ragman calls today - I'll give him some of Ron's old clothes!"]
Ronnie Rich
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Paul Green
- Stephen Mitchell
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