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Issue Details

Issue #109
Published March 1968
Frequency Monthly except for Feb, May and Nov
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "Luthor's Pal, Jimmy Olsen"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Jimmy Olsen; Lex Luthor
Genre superhero
Pencils Neal Adams
Inks Neal Adams

16 page Jimmy Olsen story "Luthor's Pal, Jimmy Olsen!"

Characters Lex Luthor; Superman; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Lois Lane; "Muscles" Mannigan; The Warlock; Lena Thurol; Professor Potter; green Kryptonite gas
Synopsis Luthor uses a timescope to see the future and discovers that Jimmy Olsen will become Superman's friend so he befriends him before Jimmy joins the Daily Planet and convinces him that Superman is evil.
Genre superhero
Script Cary Bates
Pencils Pete Costanza (signed)
Inks Pete Costanza (signed)
Notes Imaginary Story

Half page Jimmy Olsen's Pen-Pals letters page

Letters Typeset

Half page text article "Statement of Ownership"

Synopsis Average Number of copies preceding 12 months: 791,000
Letters Typeset

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 from Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #41