 For a brief time the merged comic was entitled "Valiant and Smash" (10 April to 18 September 1971), before reverting to simply "Valiant".Some strips from "Smash" survived in the new comic, including "His Sporting Lordship", "Janus Stark" and "The Swots and the Blots", but most were lost, although the "Smash" Annual continued to appear for many years afterwards (continuing, in fact, until the 1976 Annual, published in the autumn of 1975).A lot of the strips thereby continued to appear each year, including many which had not even survived into "Valiant", long after "Smash" had ceased publication as a comic.