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Issue Details

Issue #39
Published September 1959
Frequency Monthly except for February, May, August and November
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger
Notes Story synopses and some other information from Ed Boner, July 2009.

Cover Details - "The Super-Lad of Space!"

Characters Jimmy Olsen
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye

9 page Jimmy Olsen story "The Super-Lad of Space!"

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Superman [Clark Kent]; Zolians
Synopsis Jimmy, while wearing a Superman costume, attends the launching of an engineless rocket into outer space by Superman. To get a scoop, he sneaks aboard to take photos, and ends up traveling through space. When he crash-lands he finds that he now has super-powers and can live out his super-fantasies. But he can't maintain a secret identity because everyone calls him Jimmy Olsen.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks John Forte
Notes Writer ID by Martin O'Hearn.
Reprinted in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #104 (September 1967); in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #46

Half page Little Pocahontas filler "Going to school, Pocahontas?"

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

Half page advertisement "Palisades Park ad"

Characters Superman

7 page Jimmy Olsen story "The Million-Dollar Mistakes!"

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Flying Newsroom; Manager "Champ" Carson; "Whiz" Wilson; Professor Potter; Samuel Gotrocks
Synopsis Jimmy watches $1,000,000 blow out of a window. Superman rescues the money, but Jimmy's luck runs true, as he builds up to another $1,000,000 debt.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks John Forte

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll ad"

1 page Jimmy Olsen's Pen-Pals letters page

Letters typeset

Half page Peg filler "Oh, Daddy I had a neat time at the baseball game"

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

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll Pop ad"

Half page Jerry Jitterbug filler "Oh, Jerry we had a wonderful discussion in science class"

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

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "Coming Super-Attractions"

8 page Jimmy Olsen story "Jimmy Olsen's Super-Signals!"

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Superman [Clark Kent]; Professor Potter; Anti-Superman Gang; Flying Newsroom; "Ace" Manton
Synopsis After carelessly almost losing his signal watch and getting chewed out by Superman, Jimmy falls asleep and hides the watch in his sleep. Now he has to figure out how to summon Superman without the watch.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks John Forte
Reprinted in Century, The 100 Page Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 series) #43