 Within the British market, boys' comics for the age group which was too old for titles such as "Beano", "Dandy" and "Sparky" tended to focus around adventure, sport and war (in titles such as "Lion" and "Valiant"), or humour (in titles such as "Buster").In abandoning its superheroes, "Smash" sought to attract readers of both types, by offering traditional adventure as well as humour.To place these changes in context, the "Power Comics" were not the only casualties of the turmoil at IPC in 1969.