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Issue: Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #104
Publication Date: August 1967
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Issues: #104 of 163 Issues (164 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/13/1967
Volume: none
Pages: 84
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 28 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Also designated on cover as 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #G38 and as G-38 on indicia page.

On-sale date from copyright registration.

No stories in this issue are interrupted by ads. All advertising pages fall between complete stories.

First post-Go-Go Checks issue.

A DC house ad for this issue, appearing in Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #103 (July 1967), reproduces the cover illustration for Jimmy Olsen #104 showing the issue as having Go-Go Checks, but the actual comic does not. Perhaps this ad was assembled before the decision to discontinue the Go-Go Checks was made or finalized.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Jimmy's Weirdest Adventures

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jimmy Olsen; Superman [Clark Kent]
Synopsis: Jimmy Olsen is pictured in various strange identities and situations.
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Pages: 1
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
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Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: 12 feet of track
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Shudder while you save
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Jimmy Olsen floating head (inset)
Synopsis: Table of Contents for this issue.
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Pages: 1
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The Boy Who Hoaxed Superman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jimmy Olsen; Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Professor Dekker; Miss Jenkins
First Line: Several times in the past, Superman has pulled a clever hoax on Jimmy Olsen, but always for a sound reason!
Synopsis: Jimmy tries to trick Perry into giving him a raise by pretending to quit his job and getting his new identity as "Gilbert Knox" hired to take his position. Setting "Gilbert Knox" up to fail, Jimmy figures to be a sure thing to take his job back - with a raise and additional perks.
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From Content Item: FlagSuperman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #31 published September 1958
was The Boy Who Hoaxed Superman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Super-Lad of Space!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jimmy Olsen (also as Super Lad); Superman [Clark Kent]; Zolians
First Line: Imagine Jimmy Olsen suddenly thrust into a strange world in outer space... and becoming instantly endowed with all the super-powers of Superman!
Synopsis: Jimmy, while wearing a Superman costume, attends the launching of an engineless rocket into outer space by Superman. To get a scoop, he sneaks aboard to take photos, and ends up traveling through space. When he crash-lands he finds that he now has super-powers and can live out his super-fantasies. But he can't maintain a secret identity because everyone calls him Jimmy Olsen.
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From Content Item: FlagSuperman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #39 published September 1959
was The Super-Lad of Space! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Hi Yo, Kids!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Character(s): Lone Ranger; Silver; Tonto; Taka
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Pages: 1
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Crashing out of Legend!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Bomba the Jungle Boy
First Line: The greatest jungle hero of them all... Bomba the Jungle Boy now joins the DC Super-Stars!
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: DC house ad for Bomba the Jungle Boy (DC, 1967 series) #1 (September-October 1967). The cover of the issue is reproduced for the ad. Top half of page.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Private Pete; other soldier
First Line: I just answered an ad from a magazine!
Synopsis: Pete thinks of his "future", and finds it to be a lot closer than he thought.
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Disclose Notes: Lower half of page.
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The Wolf-Man of Metropolis!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jimmy Olsen; Lucy Lane; Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Supergirl [Linda Lee]; costume party goers; costume party judge; horror film director; various monster-suited actors; pretty girl in park; family on rooftop garden
First Line: One night, when people in Metropolis see Jimmy Olsen, they shriek and run!
Synopsis: Jimmy drinks a potion left behind by Merlin that turns him into a Wolf-Man every night, a spell which can only be broken by a kiss from a beautiful maiden. Jimmy tries to hide his condition from Lucy Lane until he finds, with Superman's help, a beautiful maiden who will kiss him.
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From Content Item: FlagSuperman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #44 published April 1960
was The Wolf-Man of Metropolis! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: People wear Batman, Robin, Superman, Green Arrow, and Speedy costumes at the masquerade ball in this story.

Nice Touch: Page 2, Panel 7: Before Jimmy first turns into a wolf-man, he is seen walking home at moonrise and touches of gray coloring are added to the back and side of his head indicating the beginnings of his transformation.
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Be My Guest at America's Greatest Amusement Park

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Superman
First Line: Palisades Amusement Park N.J. 1/2 mile south of George Washington Bridge
Synopsis: Superman invites the readers of this magazine to Palisades Amusement Park, offering coupons for one free admission and free rides on the "Batman Slide" and "Crazy Crystals".
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Disclose Notes: Ad for Palisades Amusement Park featuring Superman. Top half of page.
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Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Cap (in title logo only), two boys
First Line: What are you going to do with your mother's old hair net?
Synopsis: How to make rigging for a model ship out of an old hair net.
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Pages: 0.5
Job Number: 6530
Disclose Notes: Idea from Ken Ropp, St. Louis, Mich. Lower half of page.
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The Boy in Superman's Body!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Jimmy Olsen; Lois Lane; Blacky Baird
First Line: Many is the time when you must have dreamed that you had magically changed into Superman.
Synopsis: Superman gives Jimmy Olsen a new trophy he found on an alien planet. Experimenting with the device, Jimmy unexpectedly transfers Superman's mind into Jimmy's body and Jimmy's mind into Superman's body. The pair each learn a great deal about what it's like to be each other. All the mutual learning is just about new experiences and different ways of doing things, until "Jimmy's mind in Superman's body" discovers that Superman is really Clark Kent.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSuperman #111 published February 1957
was The Non-Super Superman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9.5
Disclose Notes: Original title: "The Non-Super Superman". "The Boy in Superman's Body!" is the reprint title. Story ends on the top half of a page.
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Down Down Down

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; The Atom [Ray Palmer]; Galg the Destroyer
First Line: You'll shrink to sub-microscopic size!
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Disclose Notes: DC house ad for The Brave and the Bold (DC, 1955 series) #73 (August-September 1967). The cover of the issue is reproduced for the ad. Lower half of page. Top half of page is the end of "The Boy in Superman's Body!".
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Jimmy Olsen (letter column logo illustration)
First Line: Here is a selection of the best letters from Jimmy Olsen's Pen-Pals, chosen from the hundreds published in JIMMY OLSEN since 1958.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Leads off with a letter that was printed in the very first "Jimmy Olsen's Pen Pals" column (by a reader named James Olsen), and follows with readers' letters originally sent in response to the various stories reprinted in this issue.
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The Giant Turtle Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jimmy Olsen; Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Lori Lemaris; Goxo
First Line: When will impulsive cub reporter Jimmy Olsen learn to heed the advice of his famed pal, Superman?
Synopsis: Jimmy finds an enlarging ray-gun and accidentally fires it through a turtle, striking himself, turning him into a giant turtle-man. When Jimmy begins to collect tons of steel objects, dumping them in an island volcano, Superman is called out to stop him. But Lori Lemaris tells Superman that an Atlantean criminal created the ray-gun and controlled Jimmy telepathically as part of a plan to protect pirate treasure buried on the volcanic island. Superman restores Jimmy with Brainiac's shrinking ray and recovers the pirate loot.
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From Content Item: FlagSuperman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #53 published June 1961
was The Giant Turtle Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Inspired by the cover of the July 1940 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories.
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The Elastic Lad of Metropolis!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Jimmy Olsen [as Elastic Lad]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Professor Potter; various baseball players; scientist shooting a projectile to the Moon; various cowboys.
First Line: I didn't have anything handy to tie up this truck-load of explosives that nearly collapsed! It's lucky you're Elastic Lad, Jimmy!
Synopsis: Lois accidentally gives both Clark and Jimmy a drink of Professor Potter's elastic serum. Jimmy becomes Elastic Lad, but Superman must figure out a way to cover for the fact that the serum doesn't effect him.
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From Content Item: FlagSuperman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #37 published June 1959
was The Elastic Lad of Metropolis! [Story on Interior Page(s)]with a modified last page
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7.5
Disclose Notes: Last 2/3 page modified to fit half-page. Page one, panel two: The year is identified as 1959, not updated for reprint. Story ends on the top half of a page.
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The Shouts Heard 'Round the World --

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; The Blockbuster [Mark Desmond]
First Line: Hate Batman! Kill Batman!
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: DC house ad for Batman (DC, 1940 series) #194 (August 1967), reproducing the issue's cover illustration.

The reproduction of the cover of Batman #194 shows the issue as having Go-Go Checks, but the actual comic does not. Perhaps this ad was assembled before the decision to discontinue the Go-Go Checks was made or finalized.

Lower half of page. Top half of page is the end of "The Elastic Lad of Metropolis!".
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Letterer(s): typeset
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The Mystery of the Tiny Supermen!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jimmy Olsen; Superman Emergency Squad (first appearance); Jimmy Olsen Fan Club; Perry White; Lois Lane; Supergirl [Linda Lee]; Superman [Clark Kent]
First Line: If there is only one Superman, how is it that Jimmy Olsen one day meets a hundred Supermen?
Synopsis: While Superman is on a mission in the past, the Superman Emergency Squad monitors Metropolis and discovers that Supergirl has accidentally left a clue to her existence and the Superman Emergency Squad jumps into action to remove the evidence of Supergirl's existence.
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From Content Item: FlagSuperman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #48 published October 1960
was The Mystery of the Tiny Supermen! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; The Flash [Barry Allen]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; The Atom [Ray Palmer]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Martian Manhunter [J'onn J'onzz]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Hawkman [Katar Hol]; Robin of Earth-Two [Dick Grayson]; Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Mr. Terrific [Terry Sloan]
First Line: The Old Electrician is back with another battery of super-charged stories, so jam-full of electrifying action that they're sure to deliver the biggest jolt since someone told Ben Franklin to go fly a kite!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: In-house promotional feature highlighting the DC comic books on sale June 13 thru June 22, 1967.

June 13: Justice League of America #55, Blackhawk #235.

June 15: Star Spangled War Stories #134, The Fox and the Crow #105.

June 20: Superman #199 (with a Superman/Flash race), Sugar and Spike #72.

June 22: Metal Men #27.
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The Boy Witch Doctor!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Lois Lane; Superman [Clark Kent]; Jungle King [Duke Brannigan]; Lucy Lane; Mbongu (witch doctor)
First Line: Do you believe in the supernatural? Do you think there are evil people living today who successfully practice black magic on their victims, inflicting harm on them from a distance by merely willing it?
Synopsis: Curious Jimmy dons an island witch doctor's costume and finds that, by play-jabbing voodoo dolls, he appears to have caused Lois and Perry to experience sudden pain.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSuperman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #58 published January 1962
was The Boy Witch Doctor! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Ben Rebhuhn; John Sill (photo)
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Pages: 1
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Boys, girls, men, women
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Mattel’s New M-16 Marauder

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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