I see that IDW have just published a collection of Batman Sunday newspaper strips from the sixties. (Batman: The Silver Age Newspaper Comics Vol.1: 1966 – 67). These were the same strips that UK comic Smash! reprinted every week on its cover back in 1966.
However, there was one week when the copies of the strips were too late in arriving from the USA, so Smash! featured the Hulk on the cover instead. (See above. Smash! No.34, dated 24th September 1966.) Page two explained the reason…
read more Blimey! It’s another blog about comics!: The Day Batman Was Too Late.
