 Lopez's dark, moody artwork also gave the strip a perfect 19th Century setting.The strip was one of the few to survive the merger of "Smash" into "Valiant" in 1971, and is still well remembered today.As a mark of its popularity, from week 30 it replaced "Master of the Marsh" as the lead serial on page 3 (swapping places with the latter, which was thus relegated to an inconspicuous location on pages 12 and 13).