 was owned by IPC, the International Publishing Corporation, a company formed in 1963 – through a series of corporate mergers – by Cecil Harmsworth King, chairman of the "Daily Mirror" and the "Sunday Pictorial" (now the "Sunday Mirror").All the comics owned by it were published by one or other of the subsidiary companies brought together to form IPC, including Fleetway Publications Ltd and Odhams Press Ltd.The Power Comics line, including "Smash", was published by Odhams under a three-man editorial team known as Alf, Bart and Cos. Alfred Wallace ("Alf") was the managing editor at Odhams, and Albert Cosser ("Cos") was the editor directly responsible for "Smash".