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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Smash!, Sonic the Comic, Roy of the Rovers, Jinty, Crisis, War Picture Library, Action, Steel Claw, Buster, Battle Picture Weekly, Scorcher, Starlord, Judge Dredd Megazine, Oink!, Fantastic, Valiant, Whizzer and Chips, Dice Man, Tiger, Whoopee!, Scream!, Wow!, Pow!, Cheeky, Lion, Treasure, Playhour, School Fun, Rogan Gosh, Ranger, Krazy, Cor!!, Shiver and Shake, Wham!, Knockout, Jack and Jill, Film Fun, Vulcan, Terrific, Skid Kidd, Nipper, Radio Fun, Jackpot, Monster Fun. Excerpt: Smash! was a weekly British comic, published in London by Odhams Press Ltd from 64 Long Acre and subsequently by IPC Magazines Ltd from (initially) 189 High Holborn and (latterly) Fleetway House in nearby Farringdon Street. It ran for 257 issues, between 5 February 1966 and 3 April 1971 (although, due to strikes and industrial disputes, publication was not continuous during that period). It then merged into Valiant. The Smash! Annual continued to appear each year until 1975; the final Annual, cover-dated 1976, was published in October 1975. During 1967 and 1968 Smash! was part of Odhams' Power Comics line, absorbing its sister titles Pow! on 14th September 1968 (issue 137), and Fantastic on 2nd November 1968 (issue 144). As Pow! and Fantastic had themselves already merged with Wham! and Terrific respectively, Smash! in effect absorbed the best strips from all of the Power Comics lineup. As with all of the Power Comics, Smash! included reprints from America's Marvel Comics; but the last of these, the Fantastic Four, ended in issue 162 in the spring of 1969. Smash! was sized 9.75" x 12" (#1-162) and 9.25" x 12" (#163-257), and had a four-colour cover and black-and-white interior. Smash was owned by IPC, the International Publishing Corporation, a company formed in 1963 by Cecil Harmsworth King, chairman of the Daily Mirror and Sunday...
