Dates
- Cover date
- August-September 1967
- On sale
- June 13, 1967
- Pages
- 84
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Boy Who Hoaxed Superman · 8 pages
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.
- The Super-Lad of Space! · 9 pages
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.
- Untitled · 0.5 pages
Pete thinks of his "future", and finds it to be a lot closer than he thought.
- The Wolf-Man of Metropolis! · 9 pages
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.
- The Boy in Superman's Body! · 9.5 pages
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.
- The Giant Turtle Man! · 8 pages
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.
- The Elastic Lad of Metropolis! · 7.5 pages
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.
- The Mystery of the Tiny Supermen! · 9 pages
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.
- The Boy Witch Doctor! · 8 pages
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.
Characters
Reprinted in
Superman: The Amazing Transformations of Jimmy Olsen (2007)