Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #59 (March 1962). He’s being telepathically controlled to do the bidding of the Atlantean criminal who left the enlarging ray-gun for the reporter to find because there’s pirate treasure buried on the island, according to mermaid Lori Lemaris, so Superman breaks out Brianiac’s shrinking ray and badda-bing, badda-boom… well, all I know is, the status is quo’ed by story’s end, and in the Silver Age, wasn’t that all that really mattered?ĥ. The absurdities begin when Jimmy accidently fires the enlarging ray-gun he finds through a turtle before hitting himself, thereby becoming not just a giant, but a giant turtle man because… science? And as giant turtle-men will do, Jimmy begins collecting tons of steel to drop into an island volcano, but it’s not Jimmy’s fault. This is the bizarro Jimmy Olsen cover: “The Giant Turtle Man” (written by Jerry Siegel, cover art Curt Swan and Stan Kaye). Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #53 (June 1961). What could possibly go wrong? “The Jimmy Olsen from Jupiter” (written by Alvin Schwartz, cover art Curt Swan and Stan Kaye) uses his newfound abilities to cheat (told you he’s an asshat) and win “Newsman of the Year” and, oh yeah, also read Clark Kent’s mind and learn his secret identity.Ĥ. So, like, these guys from Jupiter show up and want Jimmy to be a test subject, transforming a human being into a scaly green Jovian, complete with the ability to read minds. This would not be Jimmy’s last experience with apes.ģ. “The Gorilla Reporter” (written by Otto Binder, cover art by Curt Swan and Stan Kaye) finds Jimmy’s brain being swapped with that of a gorilla in a “weird experiment” and hilarity ensues. Remember: Gorillas sell! They were all the rage on DC’s covers in the 1950s when someone took a look at the numbers and noticed a bump in sales for any comic that featured a gorilla (especially purple ones) on the cover. The fact that this transformation was a hoax perpetrated by Superman to keep Jimmy from learning his secret identity - the motivation in what feels like half of Weisinger’s output - only makes this fish tale the more absurd.Ģ. As those things go, this one was pretty mild, but it was a harbinger of some of the weirdness to come. “The Merman of Metropolis” (written by Otto Binder, cover art by Curt Swan and Stan Kaye) was one of Jimmy’s earliest “bizarre transformation” covers. Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #20 (April 1957). But it’s not as if the little twerp wasn’t getting what was coming to him in the first place!ġ. Even Superman wasn’t immune from embarrassing situations and transformations on the covers of Superman and Action and, while Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane covers put the plucky gal reporter through changes of her own (making her fat or turning her into old hags and witches), nobody took a beating quite like James Bartholomew Olsen.
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If nothing else, Mort Weisinger, editor of the Superman group of titles, knew how to create vivid cover images that drew in his young readers.
Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen ran for 163 issues between Sept.-Oct. The comic book Jimmy was always a smug braggart, but I wrote him as an egotistical asshat.Įven Jimmy Olsen’s Slurpee cup showed him to be a self-satisfied jerk. I couldn’t even make him particularly likeable. Kent!” naivete as played by Jack Larson on TV’s Adventures of Superman so much, but in the comics? Jeepers, what a schmuck!Įven when I briefly wrote the character in Superman Family #215-222 (Feb.-Sept. I mean, what the hell was Superman doing hanging out with this annoying punk who was better at getting into trouble than out of it? You’ll even learn a lot of groovy things too.
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13th Dimension columnist Paul Kupperberg has seen it all in his 45 years or so in and around the professional comics industry.
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