The Swots and the Blots - paperback edition

The Swots and the Blots debuted in the first issue of Smash! in 1966. Three years later, the publisher was absorbed by Fleetway, and the comic fell under new management. Leo Baxendale was invited to take over the strip for the revamped version of Smash!, where he devised a new cast of characters. Baxendale continued writing and illustrating The Swots and the Blots until Smash! eventually merged into Valiant, and kept working on it for a few more years until May 1974.

This 180-page paperback volume collects every episode of The Swots and the Blots written and illustrated by Leo Baxendale for Smash! between 15 March 1969 and 3 April 1971. It also includes Baxendale’s very first instalment from the original era of Smash! and his two stories printed in the Smash! Annual 1971. Foreword by Lew Stringer.

The first printing of this limited paperback edition consists of 50 copies. Unlike the hardcover version, the paperback books aren’t numbered and have no bonus colour pin-up.