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Issue Details

Issue #72
Published October 1963
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "The World Of Doomed Olsens!"

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Superman; Elastic Lad (Chameleon Boy); Giant Turtle Man (Colossal Boy); Human Porcupine (Cosmic Boy); Wolf-Man (Proty II)
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein

8 page Jimmy Olsen story "The World of Doomed Olsens!"

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Superman; Legion of Super-Heroes [Mon-El [also as The Collector]; Colossal Boy [also as The Giant Turtle Man]; Bouncing Boy [also as Fat Boy Jimmy]; Cosmic Boy [also as The Human Porcupine]; Chameleon Boy [also as Elastic Lad]; Shrinking Violet (cameo); Sun Boy (cameo); Lightning Lad (cameo); Saturn Girl (cameo); Triplicate Girl (cameo)]; Proty II [also as Wolf Boy Jimmy]; Legion of Substitute-Heroes [Fire Lad; Polar Boy; Night Girl; Stone Boy] (all in cameos)
Synopsis Jimmy is taken by The Collector to the world Gion-El, which is seemingly inhabited by duplicates of him in the forms into which he has been transformed in the past. But when Jimmy realizes he is being hoaxed, the Legionnaires reveal that he has passed his initiation test and they bring him to the 30th century to officially be made an honorary member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Reprinted in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #140; in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #500; in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives, The (DC, 1991 series) #2; in Superman: The Amazing Transformations of Jimmy Olsen (DC, 2007 series) #[nn]

7 page Jimmy Olsen story "The Super-Test of Jimmy Olsen!"

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Superman; Professor Potter; Freddy Foster; Wilfred Warder; Slick Smorley; The Jimmy Olsen Fan Club
Synopsis Sceptical Wilfred Warder believes that Jimmy is overrated, it is then down to the Cub Reporter to prove otherwise.
Genre superhero
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte

Half page Jimmy Olsen's Pen Pals letters page

Letters typeset

8 page Jimmy Olsen story "The Secret of Monster Island!"

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Superman; Noah
Synopsis Perry and Jimmy are marooned on an uncharted island populated by incredible monsters, they must then survive until they can manage to get the Flying Newsroom's radio working again.
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein

Half page Ollie filler

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