 The Hulk's initial appearance in "Smash" took up a massive 6 pages, one-quarter of each 24-page issue, pushing fully five existing strips out of that issue, and causing the permanent cancellation of "Space Jinx" and "Brian's Brain" (although the latter would be revived much later).Prior to this, DC's "Batman" had become the second American superhero to debut in "Smash", crashing onto the front cover of issue 20 a month after the Hulk's debut, in re-edited reprints from American daily and Sunday newspaper strips