Jimmy Olsen

Jimmy Olsen is a supporting character in the Superman comic book series published by DC Comics. This fictional character's full name has been revealed as James Bartholomew Olsen.

Individual books

During the Silver Age, Jimmy starred in his own comic book, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, which featured his various adventures with and without Superman; it debuted in 1954. The stories in the title would often feature particularly outlandish situations for Jimmy to find himself in (either through his own naive nature or by bad luck), and would range from being hurled back in time to Krypton before its destruction in issue #36 to dealing frequently with gorillas of all sorts, e.g., in issue #98. Because of these factors, the comic was regarded by some as a poorly written subsidiary title.

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1954 - Krypton - Gorillas

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The major exception to this was in the early 1970s, when the singular artist Jack Kirby took over the title and created his own distinctive stories as part of Jack Kirby's Fourth World, which introduced many additions to the DC Universe, including the supervillain Darkseid and Project Cadmus. The series ended in 1974 with issue #163, when Jimmy's book was folded into the anthology title Superman Family. In that book, Olsen became a more serious character who battled criminals as an investigative reporter in urban crime stories that rarely involved Superman.

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1970s - Jack Kirby - Jack Kirby's Fourth World - DC Universe - Supervillain - Darkseid - Project Cadmus - 1974 - Anthology - Superman Family

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June 2003 saw Jimmy Olsen as the focus of a twelve-part comic book called . Written by Chuck Austen and illustrated by Danijel Zezelj, the series focused on the viral tech unleashed in Metropolis by Braniac and how it affected the everday lives of Metropolis citizens.

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Chuck Austen - Danijel Zezelj - Braniac

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