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 the "Captain America" story arc of the superhero's political disillusionment by Steve Englehart. This was eventually supplanted by more sophisticated character driven titles of "The Uncanny X-Men" by Chris Claremont and John Byrne for Marvel and "The New Teen Titans" by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez for DC. Anti-Hero becomes popular with appearances of the Punisher, Wolverine, Ghost Rider and a 1980s revival of Daredevil by Frank Miller. Superhero Comics became darker with the release of landmark deconstructive works such as "Watchmen" and "The Dark Knight Returns", which led to many imitations. In the 1990s, Image Comics released successful new