astro
January 5, 2005, 12:16am
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Via Fark
Superman’s Pal - Jimmy Olsen!
If you’ve read comic books for a while, you probably know what “Crisis on Infinite Earths” refers to. If you don’t, here’s the deal: During the forties, fifties, sixties and seventies, so much crazy shit happened in the DC universe that comics were about to be classified as mind-altering narcotics and illegalized. When the eighties came to town, it was decided that all alternate realities, parallel worlds and polydimensional alter-egos were to be wiped from the slate.
But just because many of the old storylines are gone from continuity, that doesn’t mean they aren’t still available. And boy, was there a lot of wacky stuff going on pre-crisis. So today, I-Mockery presents the most hilarious Jimmy Olsen covers ever printed.
Miller
January 5, 2005, 12:36am
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Damn! I owned most of those Jimmy Olsen comics once!
Mom made me get rid of them, they were taking up too much space.
Spoke
January 5, 2005, 1:26am
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I still have most of those.
And you should see the Lois Lane covers from that era. Weirdness abounds!
Just yesterday I noticed that Gone and Forgotten had finally been updated. Squealed like a little girl, I did.
astro
January 5, 2005, 2:45am
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Context for that remark: in Adventure Cmics # 314, a villain named Alkator used a machine to put the minds of Emperor Nero, Hitler and John Dillinger into the bodies of Mon-El, Superboy and Ultra Boy, respectively. Mon-El (with Nero’s mind) is referring to the remark made by Superboy, whose mind is Hitler’s.
cmkeller:
Context for that remark: in Adventure Cmics # 314, a villain named Alkator used a machine to put the minds of Emperor Nero, Hitler and John Dillinger into the bodies of Mon-El, Superboy and Ultra Boy, respectively. Mon-El (with Nero’s mind) is referring to the remark made by Superboy, whose mind is Hitler’s.
What’s weird is that they address each other by last name. Rather cold, no?
Fenris
January 5, 2005, 4:28am
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Plus the Lois Lane comics had better stories, Kurt Schaffenburger art and the occasional hair-pulling cat-fight between Lois and Lana. Yowza.
You have to love those old Legion stories.
Cliffy
January 5, 2005, 3:58pm
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There are two collections out now of Jack Kirby’s run on Jimmy Olsen from his stint with DC in the early '70’s. Not exactly the same comic as the goofier Olsen issues which had come before, it is nonetheless a great read.
–Cliffy
