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''Smash!'' was a weekly British comic book magazine, 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. Up until 1969, ''Smash!'' featured a balanced mixture of British humour and adventure strips, American Batman newspaper strips, and American Marvel reprints. Thereafter, it featured only British humour and British adventure strips.〔(Lew Stringer's website )〕 During 1967 and 1968 ''Smash!'' was part of Odhams' Power Comics line, absorbing its sister titles ''Pow!'' on 14 September 1968 (issue 137), and ''Fantastic'' on 2 November 1968 (issue 144). As ''Pow!'' and ''Fantastic'' had themselves already merged with ''Wham!'' and ''Terrific'' respectively, ''Smash!'' became the last survivor of the ''Power Comics'' lineup. As with all the ''Power Comics'', ''Smash!'' included black-and-white reprints of superhero strips which had been originally published in America by Marvel Comics and DC Comics. The last of these, the ''Fantastic Four'', ended with issue 162 in March 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! at the Grand Comics Database )〕 ==Publication history== ''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 Pictorial (later the Sunday Mirror), through a series of corporate mergers.〔(History of IPC ) on the IPC Media website〕〔(Birmingham Mail article by Paul Birch )〕 All the comics published by IPC were under the control of one or other of the subsidiary companies brought together to form IPC, including Fleetway Publications Ltd and Odhams Press.〔(History of Look and Learn )〕 The Power Comics line, including ''Smash'', was published by IPC's Odhams Press division under a three-man editorial team known as Alf, Bart and Cos. Alfred Wallace ("Alf") was the managing editor at Odhams, and Albert Cosser ("Cos") was the editor directly responsible for ''Smash''.〔(Career history of artist Ken Reid ) at DC Thompson and Odhams〕 Major changes of editorial policy occurred in 1969 for financial reasons, and again in 1970 when IPC was taken over by Albert E Reed to form the publishing giant Reed International.〔(Reed-Elsevier Group history ) on Reed-Elsevier website〕 Launched on 5 February 1966, ''Smash'' became part of the Power Comics line from December 1966. On 14 September 1968, with issue 137, it merged with ''Pow!'' (which had previously absorbed ''Wham''). On 2 November 1968, with issue 144, it merged with ''Fantastic'' (which had previously absorbed ''Terrific''), to become ''Smash and Pow incorporating Fantastic''. On 1 January 1969 ''Smash'' ceased to be published by Odhams Press Ltd, and was thereafter published by IPC Magazines Ltd (an IPC subsidiary formed during 1968). On 15 March 1969 it was relaunched without its American superhero strips. Further changes followed during the course of 1969 and at the start of 1970. The final issue was published on 3 April 1971. It then merged into ''Valiant'', forming ''Valiant and Smash''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Smash! (comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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