 Ironically, Baxendale's strips would eventually become a major contribution to "Smash", after March 1969, but only because the closure of "Wham" freed him to work on "Smash" instead.Initially, Baxendale was asked only to create the "Bad Penny" strip, and to give "Grimly Feendish" (a character from his "Eagle Eye, Junior Spy" strip then running in "Wham!