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
Power Comics integrate elements of American superhero comics into mainstream British comic publishing, motivated by the huge success of Stan Lee's line of Marvel Comics in the USA. Besides reprinting many of Marvel's most popular series such as Spider-Man and the X-Men, there was also an attempt to create a home-grown British superhero: firstly with Johnny Future, who appeared in "Fantastic" prior to its merger with "Terrific"; and subsequently with 'Tri-Man', who appeared in "Smash" after its merger with "Fantastic". As well as drawing heavily on Stan Lee's creative output, Power Comics also attempted to emulate Lee's chatty style and community building