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Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen 79

SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #79

Cover Date: September 1964
Cover Price: $.12
Publication Date: 1964-07-09

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: George Klein


Story: "Jimmy's Forgotten Girl Friend!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryLeo Dorfman
PencilsCurt Swan
InksGeorge Klein
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen (last in World's Finest Comics #143; next in the second story in this issue; also in flashback to childhood, last in flashback in issue #75; next in flashback in issue #36/3)

Guest Star(s):

Superman (last in World's Finest Comics #143; next in the second story in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in Superman Vol. 1 #171/3; next in Action Comics #315)
Lucy Lane (last in issue #78/3; next in the second story in this issue)
Perry White (in between Superman Vol. 1 #171/2 and #172)

Villain(s):

Jeanette "Jennie" Clubber (first appearance; takes the guise of Miss Stropp, a secretary; also in flashback; plots revenge against her high school classmates who teased her)

Other Character(s):

Lisa Vine (first appearance; an actress; hired to play as Jeanette Clubber in a plot to humiliate Jimmy Olsn)
Melvin Shrike (first appearance; in flashback; a friend of Jimmy's from school)

Location(s):

Mapleton (in flashback)
Metropolis
Daily Planet


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Second Story: "The Menace of Insect Island!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryLeo Dorfman
ArtGeorge Papp
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen (in between the first and the third stories in this issue)

Guest Star(s):

Superman (in between the first and the third stories in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Lucy Lane (last in the first story in this issue; next in issue #80)

Villain(s):

an alien scientist (in flashback)
mutagenically altered phagocytes (first appearance of all; created from Jimmy Olsen's blood)

Other Character(s):

an unidentified human-like race (first appearance; in flashback; mutagenically altered into two species of "Ant-Men")
Red Ant-Men (first appearance of all; also in flashback; Vorax named)
Black Ant-Men (first appearance of all; in flashback)
mutagenically altered red blood cells (first appearance of all; created from Jimmy Olsen's blood)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814
Earth
Metropolis
an unidentified city (about a half hour helicopter flight from Metropolis)
an unidentified island
Unidentified Space Sector
an unidentified planet (in flashback; homeworld of the Ant-Men)


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Third Story: "The Red-Headed Beatle of 1,000 B.C.!" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryLeo Dorfman
ArtGeorge Papp
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen (last in the second story in this issue; next in World's Finest Comics #144)

Guest Star(s):

Superman (last in the second story in this issue; next in Justice League of America #29)

Villain(s):

Kasmir (first appearance; a criminal escaping from the 30th Century Legion of Super-Heroes)
Ben-Robba (first appearance; a crooked shepherd)
the town guard

Other Character(s):

Mighty Youth (Samson)
Delilah

Cameo Appearance(s):

the Beatles (on television)

Location(s):

Ancient Israel
Metropolis
Daily Planet


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