CATALOG RECORD
Showcase Presents: Superman Family #1
Dates
- Cover date
- [May] 2006
- On sale
- March 15, 2006
- Pages
- 580
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Stories
- The Boy of 100 Faces! · 8 pages
Jimmy solves the mystery of the Vickers jewelry robbery.
- Case of the Lumberjack Jinx! · 7.67 pages
Jimmy Olsen is sent to the Meredith Lumber Camp by Perry White to determine the source of a "jinx" that is preventing paper from being delivered to the Daily Planet.
- The Man of Steel's Substitute! · 7.5 pages
When Superman is to busy to honor a commitment to a group of homeless, Jimmy tries to stand in for him.
- The Flying Jimmy Olsen! · 8 pages
Jimmy drinks a special potion from another world and gains the ability to fly. He uses this ability to put on a one-man show for a circus.
- The Hide and Seek Mystery! · 8 pages
Jimmy figures out where the Purple Gang has hidden the uncut diamonds they stole.
- Jimmy Olsen, Superman's Ex-Pal! · 6 pages
Crooks dress up as Superman to "guard" wealthy people for a small fee.
- The Boy Millionaire! · 5.66 pages
Jimmy Olsen is given $1,000,000 by a weathly widower for saving her cat. Anthony "Slick" Slade tries to steal his money.
- The Fastest Gun in the West! · 6 pages
Jimmy travels to Tumbleweed to cover a rodeo and finds a modern-day gunfighter terrorizing the town.
- The Man Who Collected Excitement! · 8 pages
Jimmy has been getting tips of breaking news but others suspect him of creating the accidents.
- Disappearance of Superman! · 7.67 pages
Superman hasn't been seen in a few days and Jimmy investigates his disappearance.
- The Hunted Messenger! · 8 pages
Jimmy comes to the aid of a messenger and attempts to deliver a valuable package.
- King for a Day! · 8 pages
Olsen and Clark Kent travel to Doraynia, where Jimmy is mistaken for exiled Prince Otho.
- The Boy Olympics! · 8 pages
With a rival newspaper going out of business, Jimmy helps the paperboys put on a showcase of their talents to help raise money to save their jobs.
- The Brain of Steel! · 8 pages
A new computer is installed at the Daily Planet. When Clark ends up handcuffed to Lois the computer is able to tell Jimmy how to stop various disasters, preventing Lois from finding out that Clark is Superman.
- The Story of Superman's Souvenirs · 8 pages
Killer Burke breaks into Jimmy's apartment and tries to use Jimmy's Superman souvenirs to escape the police.
- The King of Magic! · 8 pages
Jimmy and Superman catch a con man who is posing as a magician.
- Jockey Olsen Rides Star Flash · 8 pages
Jimmy is on a diet so he can participate in a horse race and Superman is helping him stay on his diet.
- 100 Pieces of Kryptonite! · 8 pages
When a kryptonite meteor explodes over the city "Angles" Archibald gathers as much as he can hoping to use it against Superman.
- The Amazing Mirages · 7.67 pages
Three teenagers go uranium hunting and boast that they will strike it rich. Jimmy follows along using the Flying Newsroom.
- The Scoop of 1869! · 8 pages
Jimmy is transported back to the year 1869 where he hopes to get the scoop on the completion of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Point, Utah.
- The King of Marbles · 8 pages
Olsen enters the Metropolis Marbles Championship Tournement. His opponent, the Target Kid, appears to be unbeatable.
- The Betrayal of Superman · 8 pages
With this private eye friend Dick Crane in the hospital, Jimmy helps him by taking his next case, finding out Superman's secret identity.
- Superboy for a Day · 7.67 pages
Superman and Jimmy Olsen travel to Smallville for Superboy Day. While there Jimmy dresses as Superboy to reenact some of Superboy's exploits.
- Jimmy Olsen, Crooner · 8 pages
A cold gives Jimmy a singing voice that makes him famous but he must decide between being a crooner and a reporter.
- Jimmy Olsen, Cub Inventor · 8 pages
Superman tricks Jimmy into thinking he's created a "time radio" to tune into the past and uses it to capture "Ghost" Gordon and his gang.
- The Million Dollar Question! · 7.67 pages
Crooks try to win a quiz show with question on Superman by kidnapping Jimmy Olsen to give them the answers.
- The Missile of Steel · 8 pages
Superman builds a Superman Robot for Jimmy to control while he is out in space saving the world from a rogue planet.
- Jimmy Olsen's Martian Pal · 8 pages
Jimmy appears to be getting signals from Mars on his ham radio set.
- Jimmy Olsen's Forgotten Adventure · 7.67 pages
Jimmy disguises himself as Dick Hunter, elevator boy, then gets amnesia and forgets who he really is.
- Jungle Jimmy Olsen · 8 pages
Clark and Jimmy go to the Yucatan searching for a mysterious "jungle boy". Jimmy shirks his guard duty, lets the camp be destroyed by monkeys, and has to wear a leopard skin because his clothes were destroyed. So, to teach him a lesson, Clark turns him over to other explorers and claims he's the genuine Jungle Boy.
- Superman's Seeing-Eye Dog · 8 pages
A space souvenir from Superman gives Jimmy X-Ray vision.
- Jimmy Olsen, Clark Kent's Pal! · 8 pages
Jimmy stays at Clark's apartment for a few days and becomes Clark Kent's pal, refusing to have anything to do with Superman.
- T.N.T. Olsen, The Champ! · 8 pages
Pugs Orton, a boxing manager, schemes to make Jimmy seem like a great boxer.
- Jimmy Olsen, Prince of Clowns · 8 pages
When Tad King gets a bump on the head, Jimmy must substitute for him for his circus debut as a clown.
- The Secret of Dinosaur Island · 8 pages
Clark and Jimmy travel to Mystic Island and discover that it is inhabited by dinosaurs.
- The Invisible Jimmy Olsen · 8 pages
Doc Brane's invention causes Jimmy to enter the 4th dimension where he is invisible to normal people.
- The Six Jimmy Olsens · 8 pages
Jimmy answers a classified ad in the paper and finds five other kids named Jimmy Olsen and a mysterious chest full of treasure.
- The Stolen Superman Signal · 8 pages
When trailing Jimmy Olsen as he collects charitable donations around the city, "Labs" Logan figures out that Jimmy summons Superman through his wristwatch. So when Jimmy isn't looking, Labs changes the signal's frequency so that Superman won't come to Jimmy's rescue. But when Labs changes the signal back the proper frequency to lure Superman into a kryptonite trap, Jimmy uses the signal to broadcast Morse code to warn Superman, who nabs the crook long-distance and helps Jimmy deliver the charity collection.
- Jimmy Olsen's Super Illusions · 8 pages
Using a camera that can take pictures in the dark, Jimmy accidentally snaps a photo of Clark changing into Superman. Superman must use trickery to convince Jimmy the photo is a fake.
- The Feats of Chief Super-Duper · 7.67 pages
When a totem pole is found with Jimmy's face carved into it, Superman takes Jimmy into the past to discover the secret of Chief Super-Duper.
- The Meek Jimmy Olsen · 6 pages
An inventors machine changes Clark and Jimmy's temperaments, making Jimmy timid and Clark rash.
- The Boy Superman · 8 pages
Superman leaves his super-suit in the Flying Newsroom. Jimmy later crashes the Flying Newsroom and wears the suit for protection but runs into hillbillies who believe he is really Superman.
- The Mystery of the Canine Champ · 8 pages
As punishment for not proofreading his assignment, Jimmy is assigned to do pet stories for the Planet. He ends up discovering the truth behind Paul Orton's dog King, who he claims is the smartest dog in the world.
- Jimmy Olsen, Speed Demon · 7.67 pages
Jimmy accidentally drinks a serum that gives him super speed.
- Unwanted Superman Souvenirs · 6 pages
When Jimmy begins to throw away all his Superman souvenirs, Superman must find out the reason why.
- The Three Lives of Jimmy Olsen · 8 pages
A Swami shows Jimmy his past lives with his reincarnation machine but it is all a ruse to steal radium that is hidden at the Daily Planet.
- The Boy of Steel · 7.67 pages
Jimmy Olsen believes that he has gained invulnerability by eating space cherries.
- The Super Liar of Metropolis · 6 pages
Jimmy learns that criminals plan to kidnap him and use a lie-detector to find out Superman's identity so Jimmy drinks a "lie-serum" that makes him unable to tell the truth.
- Jimmy Olsen in the 50th Century · 8 pages
Jimmy travels to the year 4956 where everyone believes that Jimmy is really Superman.
- The Case of the Cartoon Scoops · 8 pages
Jimmy draws Superman cartoons for the Daily Planet.
- The Radioactive Boy · 8 pages
Criminal Barney Bolton tricks Jimmy into thinking he is radioactive.
- The Super Safari · 8 pages
Jimmy is tricked into buying a magic flute that he believes will tame any wild animal.
- The Riddle Reporter · 7.67 pages
Jimmy gets scooped by the Riddle Reporter, and he begins to believe the Riddle Reporter is really Superman.
- Superbaby, Jimmy Olsen's Pal · 7.5 pages
Professor Boone's ray turns Jimmy's Signal Watch into an old pocket watch, and when activated it calls Superbaby from the past, not Superman.
- The Two Jimmy Olsens · 8 pages
Dr. Saxon gives Jimmy a robot that looks just like him and he uses it to do his job while Jimmy remains safe from the crook who is gunning for him.
- The Human Geiger Counter · 8 pages
Jimmy thinks he is allergic to Superman.
- Superman's Kid Brother · 8 pages
Jimmy has amnesia and believes he is Superman's little brother.
- Jimmy Olsen's Super-Pet · 8 pages
Superman finds a dinosaur egg and Jimmy hatches it in hopes of winning an unusual pet contest.
- The Trial of Jimmy Olsen · 8 pages
To help the Smallville newspaper Jimmy collects Superboy souvenirs for a charity auction but is accused of substituting fakes for the real items.
- The Merman of Metropolis · 8 pages
Jimmy believes he met a mermaid and received a magic ring that allows him to breath underwater but it was a hoax by Superman to stop Jimmy from discovering his secret identity.
- The Legend of Greenbeard Olsen · 8 pages
Jimmy discovers that one of his ancestors was the pirate Greenbeard and he is destined to become a pirate himself.
- Wonder Lad · 8 pages
Superman gives Jimmy a gift of an invulnerable suit, equipped with flying jets, from an alien world and Jimmy uses it to become the superhero Wonder Lad.
- The Wedding of Jimmy Olsen · 8 pages
Jimmy mistakenly believes that Lois is in love with him and asks her to get married.
- The Girl in Superman's Past · 8 pages
Lois meets Lana Lang for the first time, and the girls immediately compete to see whom Superman likes better. But Superman refuses to fall into their traps.
- The New Lois Lane · 8 pages
Superman hopes that Lois' constant snooping to find his identity will provide evidence to convince "Con" Conners that he is wrong in believing that Clark Kent is Superman.
- Mrs. Superman · 8 pages
Lois dreams she's married to Superman.
- The Mystery of the Millionaire Hoboes · 8 pages
Jimmy uncovers why three millionaires are pretending to be hobos.
- The Super-Hallucinations · 8 pages
Jimmy's signal watch is causing Superman to misuse his vision powers.
- The Super-Brain of Jimmy Olsen · 8 pages
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.
- The Suicidal Swain · Lois Lane, Girl Reporter · 4 pages
Lois helps stop a man with a broken heart from jumping off an eight story building.