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Issue Details

Issue #41
Published December 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye

9 page Jimmy Olsen story "The Human Octopus!"

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.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks John Forte
Reprinted in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #109 (March 1968); in Superman: The Amazing Transformations of Jimmy Olsen (DC, 2007 series) #[nn]

Half page Shorty filler

Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

8 page Jimmy Olsen story "The Robot Reporter!"

Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye

9 page Jimmy Olsen story "Jimmy Olsen, the Boy Swordsman!"

Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks John Forte
Reprinted in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #108 (January 1968)