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Issue Details

Issue #53
Published June 1961
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger
Notes Cover inspired by the cover of the July 1940 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories.

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Cover inspired by the cover of the July 1940 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories.

9 page Jimmy Olsen story "The Boy in the Bottle!"

Characters Kandor
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #187 (June 1966)

Half page Moolah the Mystic filler

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

8 page Jimmy Olsen story "The Giant Turtle Man!"

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Lori Lemaris; Goxo; Fortress of Solitude
Synopsis Jimmy finds an enlarging ray-gun and accidentally fires it through a turtle, striking himself, turning him into a giant turtle-man. When Jimmy begins to collect tons of steel objects, dumping them in an island volcano, Superman is called out to stop him. But Lori Lemaris tells Superman that an Atlantean criminal created the ray-gun and controlled Jimmy telepathically as part of a plan to protect pirate treasure buried on the volcanic island. Superman restores Jimmy with Brainiac's shrinking ray and recovers the pirate loot.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks John Forte
Notes Inspired by the cover of the July 1940 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories.
Reprinted in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #104 (September 1967); in Superman: The Amazing Transformations of Jimmy Olsen (DC, 2007 series) #[nn]; in Superman in the Sixties (DC, 1999 series) #[nn]

Half page Cora the Car Hop filler

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

8 page Jimmy Olsen story "The Black Magician"

Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks John Forte

1 page public service announcement "Parents Have Rights, Too!"

Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily
Letters Ira Schnapp