# "Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen!" Comic books - Some excellent stuff! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2005, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-comic-books-some-excellent-stuff/283111 "2005-01-05T00:16:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2005, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-comic-books-some-excellent-stuff/283111/1 "2005-01-05T00:16:35Z")
Via Fark [Superman’s Pal - Jimmy Olsen!](http://www.i-mockery.com/shorts/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. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-comic-books-some-excellent-stuff/283111/2 "2005-01-05T00:36:24Z")
[More acid-induced Jimmy Olsen wierdness.](http://ape-law.com/GAF/Page40/02.html) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-comic-books-some-excellent-stuff/283111/3 "2005-01-05T01:07:38Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Via Fark > > [Superman’s Pal - Jimmy Olsen!](http://www.i-mockery.com/shorts/jimmy-olsen/) Damn! I owned most of those Jimmy Olsen comics once! Mom made me get rid of them, they were taking up too much space. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2005, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-comic-books-some-excellent-stuff/283111/4 "2005-01-05T01:26:11Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Damn! I owned most of those Jimmy Olsen comics once! I still have most of those. And you should see the Lois Lane covers from that era. Weirdness abounds! ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-comic-books-some-excellent-stuff/283111/5 "2005-01-05T02:30:43Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [More acid-induced Jimmy Olsen wierdness.](http://ape-law.com/GAF/Page40/02.html) Just yesterday I noticed that Gone and Forgotten had finally been updated. Squealed like a little girl, I did. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-comic-books-some-excellent-stuff/283111/6 "2005-01-05T02:45:58Z")
> [@neofishboy](#): > > Just yesterday I noticed that Gone and Forgotten had finally been updated. Squealed like a little girl, I did. [Wha… the… “Hitler’s right!” ?](http://ape-law.com/GAF/Page40/04.html) ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2005, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-comic-books-some-excellent-stuff/283111/7 "2005-01-05T04:07:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-comic-books-some-excellent-stuff/283111/8 "2005-01-05T04:20:40Z")
> [@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? ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2005, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-comic-books-some-excellent-stuff/283111/9 "2005-01-05T04:28:15Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > I still have most of those. > > And you should see the Lois Lane covers from that era. Weirdness abounds! Plus the Lois Lane comics had better stories, Kurt Schaffenburger art and the occasional hair-pulling cat-fight between Lois and Lana. Yowza. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-comic-books-some-excellent-stuff/283111/10 "2005-01-05T04:30:54Z")
You have to love those old Legion stories. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-comic-books-some-excellent-stuff/283111/11 "2005-01-05T15:58:11Z")
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