(March 1968)
DC,
1954 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly, with the exception of Feb., May and Nov.
- On-sale Date
- 1968-01-11
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Mort Weisinger (credited); E. Nelson Bridwell (assistant editor, uncredited)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Luthor's Pal, Jimmy Olsen!
Jimmy Olsen / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]; Jimmy Olsen; Lex Luthor
Luthor's Pal, Jimmy Olsen!
Jimmy Olsen / comic story / 16 pages
- Script
- Cary Bates
- Pencils
- Pete Costanza (signed)
- Inks
- Pete Costanza (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Lex Luthor; Superman; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Lois Lane; "Muscles" Mannigan; The Warlock; Lena Thurol; Professor Potter
- Synopsis
- Luthor uses a timescope to see the future and discovers that Jimmy Olsen will become Superman's friend so he befriends him before Jimmy joins the Daily Planet and convinces him that Superman is evil.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- green Kryptonite gas
in Indexer Notes
Imaginary Story
[no title indexed]
Jimmy Olsen's Pen-Pals / letters page / 0.67 page
Indexer Notes
Letters from Lon Wilson, David Pecker, Robert Harvey, Stanley Jeffries, John A. Wysocki, Henry Jordan, and Paul Strode.
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.33 page
- Script
- Irwin Donenfeld (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Statement of October 1, 1967
Average number of copies sold during preceding 12 months (total paid circulation): 791,000
Owner: National Periodical Publications, Inc., Estate of Harry Donenfeld, J.S. Liebowitz, P.H. Sampliner, Irwin Donenfeld, S.U. Sampliner, Sonia Mondschein, all at 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022
The Human Octopus!
Jimmy Olsen / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Jimmy Olsen; Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Rocky Doyle; Lucy Lane
- Synopsis
- When Jimmy accidentally eats a space fruit, he grows four extra arms. At first Jimmy thinks his new extra arms are great, but when Lucy rejects him and he is forced to act as a pickpocket by a gang of thieves, he asks Superman to help him reverse his condition.
- Reprints
-
from Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #41 (December 1959)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Luthor's Pal, Jimmy Olsen!
Jimmy Olsen -
1.
Luthor's Pal, Jimmy Olsen!
Jimmy Olsen -
2.
[no title indexed]
Jimmy Olsen's Pen-Pals -
3.
[no title indexed]
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4.
The Human Octopus!
Jimmy Olsen
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- Dwayne Best
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Chris Boyko
- Peter Croome
- Mike Nielsen
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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