"presented both clear imitations of "Beano" strips, such as a clone of his Bash Street Kids in the shape of "The Tiddlers", and new original strips such as "Eagle Eye, Junior Spy" and "Georgie's Germs", in which he attempted to break the mould of older strips by the use of bizarre humour, outrageous puns, and surreal plots.The cult figure Grimly Feendish, originally the most popular character in Baxendale's "Eagle Eye, Junior Spy" strip, with the travelling accomplices (including bats, spiders, octopuses and other creatures of darkness and slime) who assisted Feendish in his schemes of world domination, graduated to his own comic strip in "Smash!"