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Issue: Smash! #20
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagIPC
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Indicia Publisher: Odhams Press Ltd
On Sale Date: 06/14/1966
Volume: none
Pages: 28
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: £7.00 GBP
7.0 pence GBQ 0-0-7
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Content Items: 17 (13 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: First appearance of Batman in Smash! There is a Bob Kane credit on the newspaper strip but his work was ghosted by writer Whitney Ellsworth and artists Shelly Moldoff, Joe Giella, Carmine Infantino and Al Plastino among others.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour Cover; Black & White Interior
Dimensions: 9.75" x 12" (#1-162); 9.25" x 12" (#163-257)
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Bat versus Cat [Part 1]

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superhero
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Chief O'Hara
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From Ledger Syndicate distributed newspaper strip 1966
Miscellaneous
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Cover story continues on inside cover in black and white.
Bat versus Cat

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superhero
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Chief O'Hara
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Newspaper strip distributed by the Ledger Syndicate.
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2
[untitled]

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humorous
I've been saving these rock cakes...
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The Monster and the Machine!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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superhero
Rick Jones
Rick uses some of Banner's machinery to transform the Hulk, who was stuck in his monster persona, back into Bruce. Bruce is incredibly weakened by the transformation and takes a chance in using the machinery on himself again which transforms him back into the Hulk's body but with Bruce Banner's mind. Now Bruce and the Hulk can switch at will using the gamma ray machine.
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FlagThe Incredible Hulk #4 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1962
was The Monster and the Machine! [Story on Interior Page(s)]pages 1-6
 
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All artist-writer credits from Marvel reprints in Smash! and all Power Comics were deleted. This was in line with the British tradition of not crediting comic artists or writers.
"Oh boy! It's Robert the Bruce on the telly...

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humorous
Charlie's Choice
Robert the Bruce; Charlie's Mum
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[untitled]

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humorous
Ronnie Rich
Coo! That's a fabulous model plane...
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1
[untitled]

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typeset
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Meet...Mister Knowall
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Miscellaneous
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Ongoing weekly feature
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
Be a Smasher - Write to Smash!
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Miscellaneous
0.25
Percy's pets are having their annual moth ball..."

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humorous
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Miscellaneous
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Ongoing weekly cartoon strip
[untitled]

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science fiction
The Legend Testers
Count Cadavo; Rollo Stones; Danny Charters
Count Cadavo, the evil master of death...
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[untitled]

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Now children, we must practice the school song...
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Ongoing weekly cartoon strip
[untitled]

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superhero
It's The Rubber Man!
Jonas Sleech; Mister Smith
There are advantages to being made of rubber...
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Miscellaneous
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Ongoing weekly strip
[untitled]

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humorous
Fatty is being a football referee...
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Miscellaneous
2
Graham Allen drew in the style of Leo Baxendale and worked on many of the strips Baxendale had created.
[untitled]

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science fiction
The Ghost Patrol
The Romans don't know who to look at...
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"S.O.S. Thunderbirds" Zoom Competition

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typeset
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Thunderbird 4; Lady Penelope
Advertisement competition courtesy of Lyon's Maid "Zoom" Iced Lollies.
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[untitled]

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humorous
Professor Wett; Mr. Shiek
My favourite programme - 'Ghoul Gala'!
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1
Ongoing weekly cartoon strip
Shipmates! Meet the Reverend Augustus Crump..."

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humorous
Reverend Augustus Crump
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Miscellaneous
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Ongoing weekly cartoon strip. Color back cover

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