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Issue Details

Issue #74
Published January 1964
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "The Pranks of Jimmy The Imp!"

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Superman; Perry White; Lucy Lane
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein

1 page Buzzy public service announcement "You Get What You Vote For!"

Characters Joe; Buzzy Brown; Mr. Brown
Synopsis Joe discovers you can't get what you want if you don't vote.
Genre teen; fact
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes Printed in black-and-white on inside front cover.

7 page Jimmy Olsen story "The Pranks of Jimmy the Imp!"

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Lucy Lane; Mr. Mxyzptlk
Synopsis Mxyzptlk transfers his magical powers to Jimmy, then controls his mind from the Fifth Dimension.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils John Forte
Inks George Klein

Half page Jerry Jitterbug filler

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

9 page Jimmy Olsen story "Jimmy Olsen and the Forty Thieves!"

Characters Jimmy Olsen [as Ali Baba]; Superman; Lex Luthor [as Abu Hassan]
Synopsis Jimmy is transported back through time to the era of the Arabian Nights and assumes the identity of Ali Baba.
Genre superhero
Script Leo Dorfman
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein

1 page Jimmy Olsen's Pen-Pals letters page

Letters typeset

8 page Jimmy Olsen story "Jimmy Olsen's Secret Love!"

Characters Jimmy Olsen [as Magi the Magnificent]; Lucy Lane [as Sandra Rogers]; Superman; Perry White
Synopsis Disguised Jimmy, (Magi), meets disguised Lucy, (Sandra), and they begin to fall for each other without disclosing their true identites.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Reprinted in Superman Family, The (DC, 1974 series) #177 (June-July 1976); in Superman Family, The (DC, 1974 series) #170 [one panel only]