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Issue Details

Issue #59
Published March 1962
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger
Notes "average sales per issue previous year - 520,000"

Cover Details

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Superman; Vangar; Duran; Berek
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Notes "average sales per issue previous year - 520,000"
Reprinted in Superman: The Amazing Transformations of Jimmy Olsen (DC, 2007 series) #[nn] [heavily modified]

8 page Jimmy Olsen story "Stranded in Evolution Valley!"

Characters Titano
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte

Half page Little Pete filler

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

9 page Jimmy Olsen story "Jimmy Olsen in Scotland Yard!"

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Lucy Lane; Superintendent Baker; Purple Pimpernel [Lord Bunkley]; Sergeant Kipper; Superman; Stumpy
Synopsis Perry sends Jimmy to England to work for Scotland Yard for a week. While there Jimmy tries to capture the Purple Pimpernel.
Genre superhero
Script Leo Dorfman
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Reprinted in Superman Family (DC, 1974 series) #165 (June-July 1974)

Half page Shorty filler

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

9 page Jimmy Olsen story "Jimmy Olsen, Freak!"

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Ilona; Lucy Lane; Vangar; Duran; Rogor; Berek; Superman; Lois Lane; Lana Lang
Synopsis After being rejected by Lucy Lane once again, Jimmy meets Ilona from the Sunev Galaxy who asks him to marry her. But before Jimmy can accompany Ilona back to her home for their wedding, he is confronted by four more aliens, who transform him into a freak. Superman arrives and explains that the aliens are Ilona's four other husbands and helps his pal get out of his engagement to Ilona.
Genre superhero
Script Leo Dorfman
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Reprinted in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #122 (September 1969); in Superman: The Amazing Transformations of Jimmy Olsen (DC, 2007 series) #[nn]

Half page Jerry filler

Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff