Smash! (comics) strips alongside British humour and adventure strips. Thereafter, it featured only British strips. 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!" became the last survivor of the "Power Comics" lineup. As with all the "Power Comics", "Smash!" included black-and-white reprints of superhero strips originally published in America by Marvel Comics and DC Comics. The last of these, the "Fantastic Four", ended with issue
Superhero comics characters including the Anti-Hero Spawn which were predominantly creator owned as opposed to Marvel and DC's which were corporate owned. The Comic Book Mini Series Kingdom Come brought an end to the popularity of the Anti-Hero and encouraged instead a reconstruction of the genre with superhero characters that endeavored to combine artistic and literary sophistication with idealism Superhero comics Superhero comics are one of the most common genres of American comic books. The genre rose to prominence in the 1930s and 1940s and has remained the dominant form of comic book in North America since the 1960s. Superhero comics feature