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- Danger Mouse (en)
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- The adventures of the greatest film stuntman in the world. Replaced The Pillater Peril. (en)
- The spirit of an ancient galleon, and the ghosts of its pirate crew, sail the Seven Seas making mischief, but usually coming off worst.
Moonie's Magic Mate by Carlos Cruz González (en)
- Humour strip about a boy who doesn't know his own strength. Debuted around issue #29, lasting until around issue #104; also appeared in the 1970 Smash! annual. (en)
- A crime reporter on the Daily Globe newspaper is apparently killed while investigating a news story. The world believes newspaperman Jim Jordan is dead, but he still carries on his crusade against crime, calling himself The Spectre . Jordan/The Spectre is now fighting crime, rather than merely reporting it, using an array of gadgets that make it seem he is the ghost of the missing reporter. Hence his opponents are terrified to find that if they shoot him he doesn't die . And he has a secret underground hideout beneath the statue erected in his memory, from which he covertly and unexpectedly emerges, or disappears into, under cover of an artificial fog, to give the impression he is coming and going from the spirit world. In his first case he tracks down Black Murdo, the racketeer who the world believes had murdered him.
Destination Danger (en)
- The amiable ghost of a 16th-century soldier who had been beheaded. Harry's head and body lead separate but related ghostly existences, with the body carrying the head around everywhere, and both of them able to talk. Harry's humorous adventures invariably involve misplacing his head; such as going to the cinema and, on leaving, calling at the cloakroom to collect it , and being asked by the attendant to identify it among all the other ghostly heads left there during the film.
Consternation Street by Reg Parlett [reprinted from Buster] (en)
- A boy who grew up on a Pacific island, with only the company of birds, has learned from them the secret of flight. By the use of a feather cape, he is able to glide through the air like an albatross. When an English sailor is castaway on the island, called Baratoga, they escape together on a raft and set out on a series of adventures in the Pacific, beginning by hunting down the desperado who has stolen the man's pearl-fishing yacht, Enterprise. The story was perhaps loosely based on a humour strip which had run in Buster during 1968: Captain Swoop – He's Half Man, Half Bird, Half Wit.
The Kid Commandos by Tom Kerr [reprinted from Buster] (en)
- Science fiction adventure strip about two time travelers from the future — Rollo Stones and Danny Charters — assigned to various points in history to test the authenticity of museum artifacts, which leads to deadly danger every week. It debuted with issue #8
Moon Madness by Alf Wallace and Brian Lewis (en)
- Adventure strip where professor John Silverlight combats a bizarre monster awakened by a Russian space probe. It debuted with issue #9 and canceled with issue #15 .
Charlie's Choice by Brian Lewis (en)
- Three Cockney children are stranded in occupied France in World War II. The Sparrow children – Tommy, Jan and Podge – are on the run from the Germans each week, in a single-page strip set in 1940. The strip was originally published in Buster in 1965, where it was known as The Sparrows Go To War.
Threat of the Toymaker by Francisco Solano López [reprinted from Buster] (en)
- About the richest kid in the world, who stands to inherit a fortune if only he can get rid of the money he's got. Each week Ronnie spent his last penny, in some reckless or extravagant way, only to have his scheme backfire and make him richer than ever. He never did get his hands on the fortune.
Queen of the Seas by Ken Reid (en)
- Sam is a schoolboy with a ghostly pal called Spooky, who uses his powers to humorous effect on Sam's behalf. The strip mostly consists of Sam's school friends catching Spooky doing a bit of ghostly cheating, in order to help Sam win at sports or football, and Sam doing a lot of running away to avoid a bashing.
The Haunts of Headless Harry by Mike Brown (en)
- Spooky and atmospheric series about sorcerer Cursitor Doom, master investigator of the strange and mystic, fighting the dark forces of evil, ably assisted by the pounding fists of his assistant, Angus McCraggan. Doom battles against genuine spirits and sorcerers, in tales including The Case of Kalak the Dwarf, The Sorcerer's Talisman and The Dark Legion of Mardarax, in the latter encountering a haunted Roman Legion brought back to "life" by the evil Mardarax. Doom's pet Raven, Scarab, who, by scratching with his claw, can write messages in the dust for Angus McCraggan, is often of more help to Doom than the perpetually baffled McCraggan. The strip had various artists during its one-year run, but far and away the most effective of them was the talented Eric Bradbury, and it is mainly his serials, including the magnificently atmospheric Dark Legion of Mardarax, from which the strip's enduring reputation derives.
The Battle of Britain by Geoff Campion and John Stokes [reprinted from Lion] (en)
- David Pillater returns to Pillater House, his ancestral home on the Cornish coast, which he is to inherit on his 21st birthday. Along with his four cousins and his Uncle Bernard, David is imperiled by Francis Pillater, an ancestor who has seemingly returned from the dead. Francis has an evil reputation for his misdeeds in the 16th-century, but was thought to have perished in a shipwreck during a storm at sea. Blaming the family for his troubles, he sets out for revenge by kidnapping them one by one. The strip had only a short run, but when discontinued it, unusually, came to a natural conclusion, rather than merely wrapping-up many continuing plot threads unconvincingly in the final panel.
Birdman from Baratoga (en)
- Hard-as-nails former prison sports instructor 'Toff' Morgan takes over the management of the ailing First Division side Haversham Hotspurs. Morgan begins to rebuild the team by "framing" ex-criminals who he'd known while working in various prisons, forcing them to sign on with the club in order to make use of their dishonest skills as footballing talents. These convicts become the "handcuff hotspurs" of the title. The club's former manager, Reg Jessup, constantly tries to sabotage Morgan's efforts, in order to persuade the directors to re-appoint him instead.
The Touchline Tearaways by Mike Lacey (en)
- A boy in a metal spacesuit who flies around outer space, bringing disaster wherever he goes.
The Tellybugs by Walter Thorburn and George Parlett, with later contributions by Cyril Price (en)
- Humour strip about a boy with a magic television set who can bring the characters in the programmes out from the TV screen into his world. The comic debuted with issue #19 .
The Rubber Man by Ken Mennell and Alfredo Marculeta (en)
- About a creepy but amusing comic book villain whose goal is world domination, which he attempts to achieve using various monsters and outrageous plot devices such as exploding treacle.
Percy's Pets by Mac (en)
- Short-lived football strip with humorous overtones about a League football team composed of eleven players from eleven different countries . Football manager Harry Kraft finds himself a passenger on a ship passing through the Suez Canal; ships from all over the world call there, and the crews conduct impromptu soccer matches to while away the time in port. Some of the crews have been stranded there, and constant soccer practice has caused them to develop fantastic footballing skills. Kraft ships eleven of them, from as many different countries, back to England; and they use their highly unorthodox individual skills to play as a team in the old Fourth Division. (en)
- At Night Stalks... The Spectre (en)
- Ben Bunsen is the owner of a vintage steam-driven car known as "the Burner". Ben and his pal drive the Burner around the world, as a condition of Ben inheriting his uncle's fortune; a rival claimant is secretly out to stop them. (en)
- World War II spoof set in 1940, featuring an English scientist named Professor Nutt, a boffin inventing eccentric secret weapons for a department of the War Office known as W.H.E.E.Z.E. . Nutt is kept out of trouble by his Army "minder", Sgt. "Lightning" Bolt. Nutt and Bolt perpetually clash with a cunning Nazi scientist named Doktor Skull. As the title implies, the strip was born out of the earlier popularity of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. television series.
Big 'Ead by Angel Nadal [reprinted from Buster] (en)
- Nutt and Bolt the Men From W.H.E.E.Z.E. (en)
- Canceled strips: Cursitor Doom, King of the Ring, Rebbels on the Run, Send For... Q-Squad, Sergeant Rock — Special Air Service, The Touchline Tearaways, Tri-Man, Wiz War (en)
- Sam's Spook by Leo Baxendale (en)
- The Cloak by Mike Higgs (en)
- Originally set in Crete during World War II, about Sgt. Joe Trimm and a squad of British soldiers who find a time travel machine made by aliens. They visit several eras, along the way capturing evil U-boat Commander Erhart and earning the friendship of a policeman from the future, Cornelius Kerrigan. Originally published in Swift in 1962 under the title Phantom Patrol. (en)
- Half-page strip of the misadventures of a Mr. Know-It-All character, summed up by the strip's catchphrase, continually bellowed at the lead character by his irate victims: "Have a care there, Big 'Ead!" A half-page strip, it was originally published in Buster in 1960–61.
Wacker by Raf and Roy Wilson [reprinted from Buster] (en)
- About two rival gangs — the Swots and the Blots — vying to outwit each other at Pond Road School, with "Teach" caught in the crossfire.
The Man From B.U.N.G.L.E. by Leo Baxendale (en)
- The "War" in the title refers to a feud between two wizards, Wizard Prang and his enemy Demon Druid. Other than the fact that Prang is robed entirely in white, befitting his status as the good guy, and Demon Druid is always in black, being the villain of the piece, their costumes are quite similar — a flowing wizard's robe with stars on it, and a pointed hat. They fly around on broomsticks, zapping each other with spells which turn the other into a toad or something equally amusing . Wizard Prang is alternately helped and hindered by Englebert, his pet bird. The best feature of the strip is the sign above Wizard Prang's front door. This usually reads "Wizard Prang is... In" or "Wizard Prang is... Out" ; but if he's had a bad time in the story, the sign would often make a humorous remark in the final panel, such as "Wizard Prang is... All at Sea". (en)
- Sergeant Rock — Paratrooper by John Vernon [reprinted from Hurricane] (en)
- About a mischievous young girl. The title logo featured a portrait of Penny and an illustration of a giant pre-decimal One Penny coin .
Grimly Feendish by Leo Baxendale (en)
- Simon Test undertakes a quest for immortality by attempting the thirteen tasks of the Pharaoh Thot, believing this to be the only way to save his life, having been deceived into believing he has only a few months to live. The sinister Jabez Coppenger secretly desires Test's death as a means of restoring his own youth. This serial introduces the mute servant Karka, who ultimately becomes Test's friend and assistant. Test then goes on to the more lengthy series of adventures entitled Simon Test and the Curse of the Conqueror, where he battles the twenty servants of the evil Ezekiel Spar, the self-styled Conqueror. This pits him against twenty athletes and champions, each of whom is under the hypnotic control of Spar, who implants in them an in-built impulse to kill Simon Test.
The Pillater Peril by Carlos Cruz González (en)
- Humour strip about a mouse secret agent. It debuted with issue #3 .
The Legend Testers by Keith Chapman and Jordi Bernet (en)
- A science fiction strip set in the 18th century. A young Scottish laird returns to the Highlands to aid his outlaw clansmen in their struggle with the English Redcoats, bringing with him a band of highly trained apes. The strip was created to milk the popularity of the big-budget Charlton Heston motion picture Planet of the Apes which had been released earlier that year.
King of the Ring (en)
- Brian's Brain by Bert Vandeput and later Barrie Mitchell (en)
- A motor racing serial about a feud between a young English racing driver, Jeff Jackson, who is working for Puma Motors in the U.S., and his enemy Vic Stafford, the Puma team's chief driver, who has taken a bribe to throw a forthcoming race.
Laird of the Apes (en)
- Superhero strip about an elastic superhero in conflict with his arch-enemy Doctor Fear, it debuted around issue #19. The strip occasionally crossed over with Don Starr feature in Terrific.
Tuffy McGrew by Graham Allen (en)
- About Patchman, a strange hermit who lives in the East Anglian fens. He is appointed as the new sports master at Marshside Secondary School, nicknamed "The Marsh", because he is the only person who can control the kids – a group of hooligans known as "the Monsters of the Marsh" . Patchman is a burly woodsman who has always lived in the Fens, and can communicate after a fashion with the local wildlife, for whom he acts as a protector. The strip initially featured humorous stories about the attempts of Knocker Reeves – the worst of the "monsters" – to get the better of the new teacher. But eventually, it transpires that Patchman is secretly the guardian of a collection of relics left behind by Hereward the Wake, a warlord who had fought the Norman invaders in the Fens during the 11th Century. In this respect, the strip has an occasional tendency to embrace science fiction overtones.
His Sporting Lordship by Douglas Maxted (en)
- Featuring two schoolboys: the eponymous Brian Kingsley and his friend Duffy Rolls. Brian possesses an electronic brain resembling a human skull which he carries about in a box. It can communicate with him telepathically, glowing when active; and it can control the actions of animals if they are within a few yards, which is the limit of its brain-wave transmissions.
The Ghost Patrol by Gerry Embleton [reprinted from Swift] (en)
- A group of little characters inhabiting a schoolboy called Fatty, running his body like a group of workers running a factory.
Ronnie Rich by Gordon Hogg (en)
- Master of the Marsh by Tom Tully and Francisco Solano Lopez (en)
- Subtitled He's All at Sea, the crazy antics of Royal Navy Mis-leading Seaman Wacker, who is forever driving the captain of HMS Impossible to a nervous breakdown. Despite the Liverpudlian overtones of his surname, Wacker seems not to be a Scouser – which may be because it is not his real name. The strip was originally titled Elmer, when it ran in Buster between 1960 and 1964. (en)
- The adventures of a handpicked group of six specialists who were assigned to unusual missions that required special expertise both in the air and on the ground. The strip was another of those initially drawn by one of IPC's best British artists, Eric Bradbury, and at other times by the Spanish-based artist Luis Bermejo Rojo, and in its final months mainly by Fred Holmes. Because the strip had a regrettably short run in Smash! , most of the run features art by Bradbury. It was originally published in Buster from 1960 to 1964 under the title Phantom Force 5.
The Handcuff Hotspurs by Edmond Ripoll (en)
- Football-themed strip featuring three mad-keen supporters of Grimshot United, a totally useless English Football League team perpetually in danger of being relegated, as it is made up entirely of ailing and decrepit players. Each week the Tearaways – Hairy, Lug'oles and Clever Dick – execute some scheme from the touchline to help Grimshot win that week's fixture, usually involving a battle of wits with officials from the Ministry of Football, who, not unnaturally, try to put a stop to the Tearaways' well-intentioned cheating. The name of the club, Grimshot United, was a humorous indication that the team was not very good . Each strip features a single match, with a plot based around helping the team overcome that week's opponent. Clever Dick masterminds all the ploys used in helping Grimshot, and apart from occasional words of congratulation or encouragement, he is generally the only "Tearaway" who has dialogue in the strip. Hairy and Lug'oles tend to be merely a pair of walking visual gags: Hairy's features are perpetually invisible behind a vast mass of long black hair that covers his entire face and head, and Lug'oles has a pair of enormous ears.
Tri-Man (en)
- The story of the Buoyant Queen and its two-man crew, Enoch and Bert, a pair of oafs with a love/hate relationship .
Space Jinx by Brian Lewis (en)
- Henry Nobbins had been a labourer on a building site until he inherited the title of Earl of Ranworth and five million pounds. Before he can touch the money, however, he has to become champion in a number of sports. He also has to evade the nefarious attentions of Mr Parkinson, a rival claimant to the fortune, and Parkinson's villainous henchman, Fred Bloggs. Lord Henry, as he has now become, is more than ably assisted by his butler, Jarvis, whom he inherited from the previous Earl. Jarvis proves indispensable. Henry is never portrayed as anything other than an able athlete and a good-natured bloke, leaving Jarvis to supply the cunning which is needed to defeat the dastardly Mr. Parkinson and prevent Henry's ancestral home, Castle Plonkton, from being turned into a glue factory.
The World-Wide Wanderers (en)
- Criminal scientist Doctor Droll escapes from Garstone Prison with the aid of an army of remote-controlled mechanical toys he had constructed, along the way taking the Prison Governor's children, Pam and Peter Keen, as hostages. Hampered by the children at every turn, Droll finds himself on the run, pursued by the police wherever he goes. The idea of using radio-controlled toys in the strip was scarcely original, since it was a straight lift from the House of Dolmann, which was then running in Valiant, as well as from the General Jumbo strip in The Beano. It was originally published in Buster as The Toys of Doom in 1965–1968 and later reprinted in Buster in 1986 under the title The Terror Toys. The strip was also reprinted in Eagle under its original title.
Tyler the Tamer by Edmond Ripoll (en)
- Send For... Q-Squad by Eric Bradbury [reprinted from Buster] (en)
- The Swots and the Blots by Mike Lacey and later by Leo Baxendale (en)
- A sports adventure strip about wrestling champion Ken King . As was not exactly uncommon in the Odhams years, there was a tendency to give the characters silly names. The most outrageous example in this strip was King's manager, who was called Blarney Stone. Blarney's real name was originally Tim Stone, and Blarney was only a nickname, but this was soon forgotten. In order to fulfill Ken's ambition to travel, Blarney agrees to manage him on a world tour, if he'll agree to fight his way around the world. (en)
- New strips: Birdman from Baratoga, Consternation Street, Ghost Ship, The Haunts of Headless Harry, The Kid Commandos, Monty Muddle – The Man from Mars, Nick and Nat – The Beat Boys, The Pillater Peril, Sam's Spook, The Thirteen Tasks of Simon Test, Threat of the Toymaker (en)
- Secret agent strip about The Cloak, the top agent for Britain's Special Squad, nominally a part of Scotland Yard, but he usually operates from his personal headquarters, known as the Secret Sanctum. The Cloak's ingenuity and a never-ending supply of gadgets and secret weapons give him the edge over his somewhat odd enemies . He has some equally odd colleagues. Assisted initially by Mole and Shortstuff , he then begins having adventures in which he finds himself also alongside the sexy and flirtatious Lady Shady, the shady lady.
Wiz War by Mike Brown (en)
- A small plump schoolboy who fills his family home with an exotic collection of pets, thereby causing a predictable degree of comic chaos for his long-suffering mum and dad. Animals include a parrot, a tortoise, a white mouse, and a hedgehog; as well as such zoo animals as an elephant, a giraffe, a hippopotamus, a snake, and an ape.
The Nervs by Graham Allen and later by Ken Reid (en)
- Featuring three young brothers with the surname Rebbel who run away from an orphanage to avoid being split up. After a few months, the strip took an amazing turn and – renamed The Rebbel Robot – became a science fiction serial, when the boys discover that their late father's mind is preserved within the brain of a robot, which becomes their unofficial guardian. They all embark on a quest to track down a criminal known as The Genie, who had murdered their real father – who, in a further improbable turn of events, turns out to be a secret agent.
Cursitor Doom by Geoff Campion and later Eric Bradbury (en)
- The Thirteen Tasks of Simon Test by Angus Allan and Eric Bradbury (en)
- A spoof of the popular TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. Baxendale drew the first few, which appeared as large single illustrations on the front cover of some early issues, after which Mike Lacey took over.
Bad Penny by Leo Baxendale (en)
- A schoolboy, Barry Moon, finds a genie in a dusty old bottle. This replaced The Kid Commandos. (en)
- A collection of unlikely neighbours rub shoulders on a very small street. The Snobbs and the Ardupps, Colonel Curry and Caesar , Miss Primm and her pets, Cutprice the Grocer, and Roger the Lodger are watched over by the dim-witted Constable Clott. Usually a one-page strip, its title spoofs that of the popular British television soap opera Coronation Street. It was originally published in Buster in 1965.
Monty Muddle – The Man from Mars by Nadal/Rafart [reprinted from Buster] (en)
- Canceled strips: At Night Stalks... The Spectre, The Cloak, Destination Danger, Fantastic Four, Grimly Feendish, Laird of the Apes, The Man From B.U.N.G.L.E., The Mighty Thor, The Nervs (en)
- Set in the Dark Ages, featuring its eponymous Viking hero who fights a weird but impressive collection of legendary and fantasy monsters. It is well-remembered under its original title, Karl the Viking. The strip was originally published in Lion in 1960–1964. (en)
- The misadventures of spaceman Monty Muddle, who flies about in his small bubble-domed spacecraft trying to make friends with the Earth people. However, due to his misunderstanding of Earth customs, his every attempt at contact ends in disaster; each strip typically ends with the catchphrase "I'll try again next week!" This half-page strip was originally published in Buster in 1960–1962, under the title Milkiway – The Man from Mars.
Nick and Nat – The Beat Boys by Gordon Hogg [reprinted from Hurricane] (en)
- Secret agent Simon Kane fights against Baron Rudolph, a usurper who has seized control of Britain using a secret weapon. The weapon emits a sound wave that paralyses anyone who isn't protected against it. Rudolph sets up a police state, similar in emblems and uniforms to medieval England at the time of King John, and Kane leads the resistance against him. The hero was originally called Vic Gunn. The editorial staff of Smash! decided to change the names of the leading characters from Gunn and Barrel to slightly less absurd ones, and so were born secret agent Simon Kane and his assistant Tubby. This had been a very long-running strip in Lion, so much that Smash! actually ceased publication in April 1971 before it had reprinted the entire run from Lion, and in the final issue created an new ending for the serial.
Eric the Viking by Ken Bulmer and Don Lawrence [reprinted from Lion] (en)
- New strips: The Battle of Britain, Big 'Ead, Cursitor Doom, Eric the Viking, His Sporting Lordship, The Incredible Adventures of Janus Stark, Master of the Marsh, Nutt and Bolt the Men From W.H.E.E.Z.E., Rebbels on the Run, Wacker, The World-Wide Wanderers (en)
- An escapologist in Victorian London who appears to be simply an unusual act on the music hall stage, but who privately used his extraordinary abilities to battle against injustice. Stark has an unusually flexible bone structure, enabling him to get out of an astonishing variety of tight situations. The protagonist was born in 1840 as the orphan Jonas Clarke. His background story explains that he was sent to an orphanage where he was mistreated, but escaped and lived in the streets. There he befriended a beggar, Blind Largo, who taught him pickpocketing, but also trained Clarke's unique gift for body bending and escaping. As an adult, Clarke takes on the persona of Janus Stark.
Rebbels on the Run by John Stokes (en)
- The Incredible Adventures of Janus Stark by Tom Tully and Francisco Solano López (en)
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