 The other staple of the new "Smash" was adventure serials, and far and away the most successful of these was "The Incredible Adventures of Janus Stark" written by Tom Tully, featuring an escapologist in Victorian London who appeared to be simply an unusual act on the music-hall stage, but who privately used his extraordinary abilities to battle against injustice.Stark had an unusually flexible bone structure, enabling him to get out of an astonishing variety of tight situations, thanks to training received in childhood from his mentor, Blind Largo.Drawn by Solano Lopez, there was more than a touch of Reed Richards, from the departed "Fantastic Four" strip, in Stark's uncanny abilities.