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Terry Hooper-Scharf
Sunday 16 August 2015
In The Days When Comics Were Fun!
NEVER a big DC comics fan but I love -LOVE- this Jimmy Olsen (no. 79)
and have a tatty cover-less version and annual reprint. Just lovely fun!
Definitely my favourites were the odd stories set upon a bizarre alien world or the heroes would go through a metamorphosis. World's Finest; 'The Creature that was Exchanged For Superman', 'The Mirror Batman', The Riddle Of The Four Planets', The Secret Of The Captured Cavemen'. Superman: 'The Two Ton Superman. Lois Lane: 'The Monster That Loved Lois Lane', 'Lois Lane, Queen; Superman, Commoner', 'The Unbreakable Spell; and The Flash: 'The Bride Cast Two Shadows'. Not to mention, because this naming of favourite comics could go on indefinitely, all the odd scrapes that Jimmy Olsen could get into.
I always loved those quirky DC covers and Jimmy Olsen had more that its fair share of these quirky covers and stories. I seem to recall a cover featuring the green scaled version of Jimmy on the cover you have here when that characters is ripping apart what looks like San Francisco bridge - other cools ones were where Jimmy is cutting Superman's hair ( I bought that as a kid to find out how he could do that) ad where he is collecting Superman's tears (for some reason) and a brilliant Neal Adams cover (issue 135) that is on my list wish where Superman is being attacked by loads of little Supermen unleashed on him by Jimmy (see link to this below) - great fun stuff I actually miss comics like Jimmy Olsen now.
Oh that Turtle Man and bridge cover is a CLASSIC! Let us not forget, however, the time Olsen went under cover to get a crime boss...in drag......yeah. Uh, who passed that story??
Definitely my favourites were the odd stories set upon a bizarre alien world or the heroes would go through a metamorphosis. World's Finest; 'The Creature that was Exchanged For Superman', 'The Mirror Batman', The Riddle Of The Four Planets', The Secret Of The Captured Cavemen'. Superman: 'The Two Ton Superman. Lois Lane: 'The Monster That Loved Lois Lane', 'Lois Lane, Queen; Superman, Commoner', 'The Unbreakable Spell; and The Flash: 'The Bride Cast Two Shadows'. Not to mention, because this naming of favourite comics could go on indefinitely, all the odd scrapes that Jimmy Olsen could get into.
ReplyDeleteI always loved those quirky DC covers and Jimmy Olsen had more that its fair share of these quirky covers and stories. I seem to recall a cover featuring the green scaled version of Jimmy on the cover you have here when that characters is ripping apart what looks like San Francisco bridge - other cools ones were where Jimmy is cutting Superman's hair ( I bought that as a kid to find out how he could do that) ad where he is collecting Superman's tears (for some reason) and a brilliant Neal Adams cover (issue 135) that is on my list wish where Superman is being attacked by loads of little Supermen unleashed on him by Jimmy (see link to this below) - great fun stuff I actually miss comics like Jimmy Olsen now.
ReplyDeletehttp://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/365fourth/2010/10/31/supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-135/
Oh that Turtle Man and bridge cover is a CLASSIC! Let us not forget, however, the time Olsen went under cover to get a crime boss...in drag......yeah. Uh, who passed that story??
ReplyDeletehordes of mini Supermen. hehehehe.
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