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Issue: Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #49
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 10/06/1960
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 15 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Action Comics #270 and copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.; standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound (#95, 104, 113, 122, 131)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Fat Boy of Metropolis!

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superhero
phony Maharajah
Happy, Jimmy?
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Test Your Talent

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Contest prize: $495 scholarship in commercial art
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Inside front cover.
Jimmy's Gorilla Identity!

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superhero
The Red Knights; Al (policeman); Ed (policeman)
In the past, Jimmy Olsen, Daily Planet cub reporter, has been guilty of many impulsive acts!
Congo Bill travels to Metropolis to find Congorilla, who had been captured and transported there. He asks Jimmy for help finding Congorilla.
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Origin recap of Congorilla (details changed).
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humorous
Hi, Homer!
Homer and his friend try to go to lunch.
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Coming... Super-Attractions!

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Adventure Comics; Superboy; Action Comics
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House ad for Superman Annual (DC, 1960 Series) #2.
The Fat Boy of Metropolis!

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superhero
Dr. Rance (villain); phony Maharajah of Bohali (villain); Maharajah of Bohali; Mr. Montaine; Mrs. Montaine
Cub reporter Jimmy Olsen is justly proud of the many clever disguises he wears whenever he does undercover work for the Daily Planet!
Dr. Rance makes Jimmy fantastically fat as part of a scheme to smuggle jewels into the country. But when he tries to pass himself off as the Maharajah of Bohali, Dr. Rance exposes himself as a fraud, and Superman arrests him.
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FlagSuperman: The Amazing Transformations of Jimmy Olsen #[nn] published September 2007
as The Fat Boy of Metropolis! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Jimmy Olsen
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Letters from Edward D. Westfall, Dick Carlson, Cynthia Davis, Henry Blair, Danny Haralson, Linda Szymanski, Jules Matjes, Jerry Wells, Tim Orange, Fred Herkel.
Bandicoot

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Let's Go Hunting!
Puzzle of how many four letter words can be spelled using the letters in Bandicoot.
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Everything you need to enjoy stamp collecting
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Alias, Chip O'Doole!

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During his amazing career as Superman’s pal, Jimmy Olsen, the red-headed Daily Planet cub reporter has been an Elastic Lad, a genie, a human octopus, and a wolf-man.
When Jimmy discovers that Lucy Lane has a crush on teen singing star Chip O'Doole he disguises himself as Chip to try to win her back.
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FlagSuperman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #95 published August 1966
as Alias, Chip O'Doole! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSuperman #4/1966 published December 1966
as Jimmy Olsen: Alias Chip O'Doole ! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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[untitled]

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Do you want spending money?
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You, too, can be tough!
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George Jowett (photo)
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Inside back cover.
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Abraham Lincoln; George Washington; Theodore Roosevelt; Ulysses S. Grant
Boys! Girls! Ladies! Men!
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Back cover.

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