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Issue Details

Issue #79
Published September 1964
Frequency Monthly except Feb, May, Aug, Nov
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "The Red-Headed Beatle of 1,000 B.C.!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Jimmy Olsen
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein

7 page Jimmy Olsen story "Jimmy's Forgotten Girl Friend!"

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Lucy Lane; Jeanette Clubber; Melvin Shrike; Miss Stropp; Superman [Clark Kent] (Cameo); Lisa Vine; Lois Lane (Cameo); Perry White (Cameo)
Synopsis A girl that used to have a crush on Jimmy Olsen in school returns as a rich attractive woman and steals Jimmy away from Lucy Lane.
Genre superhero
Script Leo Dorfman
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein

Half page text article "Jimmy Olsen's Time Trips"

Synopsis Information on Jimmy Olsen stories that involved Time Travel.
Letters Typeset

7 page Jimmy Olsen story "The Menace of Insect Island!"

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Lucy Lane; Flying Newsroom; Vorax; Ant-Men; Superman [Clark Kent]
Synopsis Jimmy and Lucy find a race of Ant-Men aliens and contact Superman to help them return home.
Genre superhero
Script Leo Dorfman
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp

1 page Jimmy Olsen's Pen-Pals letters page

Letters Typeset

8 page Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen story "The Red-Headed Beatle of 1,000 B.C.!"

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Samson [Mighty Youth]; Kasmir; Ben-Robba; Delilah; Superman [Clark Kent]
Synopsis Jimmy is tricked by the villain Kasmir into piloting a Legion time bubble into the past for him. Once there, Kasmir turns on Jimmy, but he is rescued by Mighty Youth. Later Kasmir takes his revenge by framing Jimmy as a thief, and he is thrown in jail. Jimmy is released by Mighty Youth, who reveals himself as Samson. Kasmir follows Samson and Jimmy to Samson's fortress, but Samson once again saves Jimmy, just before Superman arrives to rescue Jimmy and return Kasmir to the 30th century.
Genre Superhero
Script Leo Dorfman
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp
Notes The Beatles cameo on the TV.
Reprinted in Superman in the Sixties (DC, 1999 series) #[nn]

Half page Warden Willis filler "I can't sleep with all the racket he's making!"

Synopsis A prisoner can't sleep.
Genre gag
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff