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Issue Details

Issue #22
Published August 1957
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Ray Burnley
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: Superman Family (DC, 2006 series) #1; in Superman: The Amazing Transformations of Jimmy Olsen (DC, 2007 series) #[nn] [heavily modified]

8 page Jimmy Olsen story "The Mystery of the Millionaire Hoboes"

Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Ray Burnley
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: Superman Family (DC, 2006 series) #1

1 page Ollie filler

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

Half page Shorty filler

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

8 page Jimmy Olsen story "The Super-Hallucinations"

Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Ray Burnley
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: Superman Family (DC, 2006 series) #1

1 page public service announcement "Earn While You Learn!"

Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Ruben Moreira
Inks Ruben Moreira
Letters Ira Schnapp

1 page Jerry Jitterbug filler

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

1 page text article "Card Tricks You Can Do"

Letters typeset

8 page Jimmy Olsen story "The Super-Brain of Jimmy Olsen"

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Prof. Potter
Synopsis When Jimmy allows Prof. Potter to demonstrate his evolution accelerator on him, he becomes a human from 1,000,000 A.D. who calls himself the Cosmic Brain. Transformed, Jimmy forces Superman to create a crater in the Antarctic icecap and fill it with heavy materials. Only once Jimmy has reverted to his normal self does Superman discover that as the Cosmic Brain Jimmy had figured that the clustering of the Earth's main land masses around the North Pole would some day lead to the destruction of the planet.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Ray Burnley
Reprinted in Superman Annual (1960 series) #1 (1960); in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #113 (September 1968); in Showcase Presents: Superman Family (DC, 2006 series) #1; in Superman: The Amazing Transformations of Jimmy Olsen (DC, 2007 series) #[nn]