featured a mixture of British strips with reprints from American Marvel Comics, including Spider-Man, Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD and the Fantastic Four.

Bart (a pen-name for Eagle's Bob Bartholemew) was the editor directly responsible for Pow!.

It was printed on newsprint stock, in black-and-white except for its colour front and back covers, and initially comprised 28 pages.

The 86th and final issue appeared on 7 September 1968, after which it merged into Smash!, another of the Power Comics line of five titles.

supplemented its British content with reprints from American Marvel Comics, all written by Stan Lee.

These included Kicks, Wee Willie Haggis: The Spy from Skye, Ken Reid's Dare-a-Day Davy[3][4] (in colour, for the back page), Ron Spencer's The Dolls of St Dominic's, Mike Brown's The Group and Wiz War, and (from issue #18) Mike Higgs' The Cloak.

The episode, which included the desecration of a grave, the re-assembling of a shattered skeleton, and a young boy kissing a corpse, was too gruesome for the editors of Pow!

[5][6][a] The episode eventually saw print in the UK small press magazine Weird Fantasy, published by David Britton, in 1969.

Assisted initially by Mole (the tall one with the bald head, big nose, and spectacles) and Shortstuff (the short squirt with the hairy nut and big eyeballs), he began having adventures in which he found himself also alongside the sexy and flirtatious Lady Shady, the shady lady.

Brown seems to have been unaware of the Odhams house rule banning artists from signing their work, as the strip often bore his name.