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(Action Comics I #228) - Poisonous smog hit Metropolis hard, and Superman constructed a giant fan to drive it away from the city. Lois covered the story, and Superman said he'd decided to commemorate his career by building a Superman Museum. Digging up iron ore and a coal-seam he created his construction materials, and assembled the skyscraper that would house his museum by hand. Perry sent Lois and Jimmy to cover the museum opening, even though he thought Superman was getting full of himself even though Lois defended him. Superman gave the inaugural tour of the museum, recounting lost adventures of his past, including stopping Lex Luthor with a parabolic reflector and halting the rampage of mechanical mythological creatures that ran amok in Metropolis. Racketeer Jay Emery was hoping the museum would house dangerous weapons and technology, and when Superman told Lois the center of the building was a gigantic air shaft he presumed that it held the devices too dangerous to be on display. Lois was also determined to get a look at the secret shaft, and when she saw mementos being delivered to the museum she spotted a lead chest and hopped inside, only to be met by Emery, who was using the chest to sneak inside the museum himself. Superman was already in the shaft, which the Superman Museum was simply a cover for. Poisonous gas from the earth was leaking, and had caused the recent smog. He didn't want to cause a panic, so he'd built the museum as a cover. After venting the gas he saved Lois from Emery and revealed that he'd constructed the museum as modular units, and took it apart to create housing for Metropolis' underprivileged population.

(Action Comics I #231) - Clark accompanied Jimmy when he was summoned to the office of Prof. Z. Peabody, chief of Metropolis Archives. Peabody was researching the Kingdom of Vumania, and learned that Jimmy was a descendant of their last king, who'd died centuries ago. According to the kingdom's charter Jimmy could claim the throne if he slew a dragon, broke a wizard's spell, and saved a fair maiden while dressed as a knight. Peabody realized the tasks would be ceremonial, but he'd still have to carry them out, and suggested Superman as a reliable witness. Superman flew to Vumania, which had been reduced to a small uninhabited island after a flood, and felt bad that he'd have to break the bad news to Jimmy, who was dreaming of pomp and circumstance. Superman returned to Metropolis and witnessed a car striking Jimmy, who was mostly unharmed thanks to his rented armor, and he overheard the driver and accomplice saying they'd stop at nothing to keep him from the throne. Superman decided to play along with Jimmy's deeds to find out why the thugs were interested in a worthless island. Superman stopped the crooks from interfering while Jimmy lanced a dragon float in Chinatown, ruined a stage magician's trick, and saved a woman from being run over with a car. Jimmy was disappointed in his newly won kingdom, but Superman discovered the crooks were part of the Sea Gang, who operated from Vumania in an underground lair, and rounded them up.

(Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #1) - Lois disguised herself as famous French actress Lois LaFlamme, who was visiting Metropolis, to get an interview with the Rutavian ambassador, who normally avoided the press. She charmed the ambassador at a party, but Superman was present performing parlor tricks in gratitude for the ambassador's charity work, and decided to teach Lois a lesson about using underhanded tricks to get a story. He had Jimmy Olsen pose as LaFlamme's suitor Count Armand, and he challenged Superman to a duel after Lois made it clear how much she loved Superman. Lois tried to stop it, but could only watch on as "Armand" shot Superman, and the bullet bounced back, hitting the Count. Thinking the Count dead she broke down and told Superman she'd never be deceptive in getting a story again, and Superman revealed his ruse.

(Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #1) - Lois overheard Daily Planet advice columnist Mr. Romance tell a woman that the way to a man's heart was through his stomach, so she decided to win Superman over with her cooking. Her mind was made up when she saw Jimmy and Superman enjoying burgers together. She became chef at Dick's Diner when Dick Morgan had to close it down to recover from surgery, and sold the idea to Perry White as a human interest piece.

(Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #2) - Mammoth Studios began filming "The Life of Superman" in Metropolis, and Superman agreed to play himself because half the earnings would go to charity. Jimmy and the staff of the Daily Planet were offered bit parts, and all of them passed a screen test except Lois Lane, who got nervous. Director Daryl Zorne made her a prop girl, and had her part played by lookalike Gilda Glamarr, and Lois seethed with jealousy. A number of near-fatal accidents plagued the set, and it seemed as though Lois was behind them, so Zorne told her to leave the set and Superman told her he never wanted to see her again. It was actually all a ploy by Superman, who showed Zorne footage of Lois being jealous, angry and heartbroken; convincing Zorne she could indeed become a good actress.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #29) - Jimmy was offered a book deal for a fictional story about him and Superman. He kept writing himself into a corner, with the world ending in one story, not knowing Superman s real identity to conclude another. Superman regularly checked in on his writing, and nixed an idea for a story where all the legendary strongmen such as Atlas and Hercules were actually Superman because he pointed out that Delilah could never cut Samson-Superman's super-tough hair. Jimmy finally dreamed up the perfect book, The Super Mystery, but lost the details when he woke up. Superman took him one year into the future and picked up a copy of The Super Mystery, which had become a best-seller. Back in their own time Jimmy copied the book and handed it to his publisher.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #29) - Krypto returned to Earth after years of romping in space, and Superman gave him to Jimmy as a pet. Unfortunately old age slowed Krypto down physically and mentally, and he destroyed a good deal of city property when Jimmy tried to have him fight crime. Superman kept threatening to take him away from Jimmy if he couldn't behave, and the last straw was when Krypto stole a dinosaur bone from a museum. The city council took Krypto away from Jimmy, deeming him a public menace. Jimmy impassionedly spoke at the hearing, going over Krypto s old heroic exploits, and the judge granted that Krypto could be returned to Superman. Superman brought Krypto to a valley surrounded by kryptonite hills. Superman knew that the kryptonite infused with mineral water acted as a fountain of youth, restoring Krypto to his prime. Jimmy and Krypto got one last chance to play, but Krypto returned to the stars for another romp. Superman promised that if Kryptoi ever returned he d remember Jimmy s loyalty.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #29) - Jimmy found the hq of Doctor X, an underworld figure who duplicated the feats of sorcerers with science. Doctor X had died that day in a plane crash, and the police raided his building, forcing Jimmy to grab a pair of spectacles and flee. The spectacles showed visions of the future, and they all involved Superman, since Doctor X was worried about being caught by the Man of Steel. Jimmy foiled a criminal s attempt to use kryptonite on Superman and kept a manhole worker from accidentally uncovering Superman s identity. He saw a vision of himself drowning and tried to avoid his fate by avoiding Superman, but later realized that he was acting in a film, pretending to drown in a lake for a camp safety video. Jimmy lost his future glasses flying around with Superman.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #30) - Jimmy felt the sting of being the only orphan at the Daily Planet Father and Son s Picnic. Superman told Jimmy he d always thought of him as a son, and was making it official by adopting him for a 30 day trial period. After winning all the games at the ppicnic for them Superman rented a house for them and took a tour of the Fortress of Solitude. His latest trophy was a mural showing a solar system he created to give a hoime to alien refugees whose sun had exploded. In his honor they named everything after him, from Superman s Planet to Superman s Sun. Superman s Super-Calculator Machine made one of its faultless predictions, that Superman would destroy his son. The only out he saw was to convince Jimmy he d be an awful father. He banned Jimmy from the Fortress, told him he wasn t doing his share of cleaning around the house, and when Jimmy got him a robe for Father s Day Superman torched it with his heat vision. Jimmy voided the trial adoption, and Superman revealed why he had to act the way he did. Jimmy figured out that the calculator was referring to Superman s Sun, not him. The sun had burned out, so Superman smashed it and replaced it with a younger star.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #30) - Jimmy was working on a book exposing the Bedone Gang, and Perry advised him to keep the manuscript at the Planet for safety. Jimmy was convinced the Bedone Gang would never try to steal from him because of his signal watch, but the Bedone Gang used science fiction props to convince Jimmy there were a series of super-emergencies, for alien ant invades, to a timewarp causing a Brontosaurus and cavemen to appear. Jimmy s constant signaling of Superman for false alarms made the Man of Steel start ignoring the watch. Superman was convinced Jimmy was hallucinating or dreaming, and warned him to stop interrupting his daily patrols and charity performances. The Bedones broke into Jimmy's apartment and forced him to hand over the manuscript, but Jimmy jammed his watch and hid it in the sheets, so that the constant buzzing forced to Superman to stop ignoring it. Superman caught the Bedone Gang and made amends with Jimmy.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #30) - Clark found underworld surgeon Scalpel  Logan s coded list of clients, so Logan enlisted  Houdini  Watson to get the document back. Watson had plastic surgery to look like Superman, and convinced Jimmy Olsen that Clark Kent had sold out to the underworld, and was planning on going after Superman with kryptonite. Jimmy had a hard time believing it, but the crooks planted luminescent powder in Clark s coat that looked like kryptonite, and they hid a fake chunk of kryptonite in a cake supposedly sent to Superman by Clark. Jimmy stole the client list from Clark s desk, believing it was proof that Clark was a criminal, and after handing it over to the crooks they planned to eliminate him. They also picked up Clark and prepared to drive out of the city, but Clark secretly used his heat-vision to open a hole in their gas tank. They ran out of gas at an intersection, and a police officer threatened to tick them for holding up traffic. Watson tried his Superman routine on the officer, but he easily spotted him as a fake and arrested him.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #31) - Superman brought Jimmy a lockbox he d found floating in space, and told him to take some pictures of the contents. Jimmy noticed a glowing green flask, and worried that it was liquid kryptonite. In his attempt to dispose of it he shattered the vial, and the chemical spilled on him, giving him fantastic stretching powers. Jimmy thought of himself as a freak, and was ashamed to be seen as a rubber man by huis coworkers, so he took a job in a sideshow as Elastic Lad. The crook  Silky  Smith recognized him and learned that Jimmy was desperately searching for a cure. Smith disguised himself as the famous Professor Bolton and told Jimmy to come to his lab. On the way he had Jimmy use his powers to unwittingly aid him in an attempt on the D.A. s life and a bank robbery. Superman foiled the attempts, but when Smith got Jimmy to let him into Bolton s lab he used kryptonite, which Bolton was trying to find a cure for, on the Man of Steel. Jimmy saved the day, and the altered kryptonite took away his Elastic Lad powers.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #31) - Perry had Jimmy do a feature on historical hat collector Mr. Smith, but the old rake played a joke on Jimmy, convincing him he d gain the abilities of the personalities the hats originally belonged to if he tried them on. Superman had to keep Jimmy from killing himself playing hero after he put on Robin Hood s cap and forced a lion back into his cage through a lucky shot. Jimmy put on the hat of Fleming, the English constable who always got his man, and went after the mobster Duke Maddox. Superman kept him safe, and convinced Mr. Smith to call him and tell him the  magic  of the hats had worn off after a single use.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #31) - Jimmy hit Perry up for a raise, but was turned down because of his spate of misprint errors. Jimmy was determined to teach Perry that he should be grateful for his services, so he volunteered to be put into a cryogenic freeze for the good of science. In reality Jimmy put a dummy in the block of ice and assumed the new identity of Gilbert Knox and got a job at the Planet, planning to show Perry what a bad reporter really was. Superman was wise to him, and wanted to teach Jimmy a lesson. Every time  Gilbert  called on Superman for wild goose chases Superman found a way to perform heroic acts and make Gilbert a star reporter. Gilbert was promoted and given his own office, so he decided to abandon his old life as Jimmy Olsen. Superman wasn t done giving him a lesson on not hoaxing people, and melted the ice containing the Jimmy dummy, forcing Jimmy to return to his old life so no one would know of his duplicity. Jimmy was rehired by Perry, but had to suffer through lectures about how whe paled in comparison to Gilbert.

(Action Comics I #254) - Lex Luthor visited Smallville and came across an old newspaper story about Professor Dalton, who used a duplicator ray to create the Bizarro Superboy. Luthor stole Dalton’s plans for the duplicator ray to build his own, and showed off the ray to his lab assistant Vekko, bragging that he’d use it to destroy superman. Luthor posed as “Professor Clyde” and phoned up Perry White, telling him he’d come up with an antidote for kryptonite. Superman visited his lab, and “Clyde” had him stand in front of the duplicator way under the pretense of making him immune to kryptonite. The duplicator ray created Bizarro, an imperfect duplicate of superman with stony skin and a backwards mind. Luthor took off his disguise and ordered Bizarro to destroy Superman, but Bizarro realized he was a monstrosity, and was furious at Luthor for creating him. He grabbed Luthor and Vekko to take them to jail, and admitted to Superman that he didn’t know the difference between right and wrong and didn’t belong in the world. Superman decided he’d have to be destroyed, reasoning that it was morally correct because Bizarro was lifeless matter in human form, but first had to deal with a massive tidal wave causing havoc at sea. Bizarro turned over Luther and Vekko to the police, who were horrified by Bizarro. He tried to prove he was a hero by saving a plane from crashing, but the passengers ran away form him in fear when they were on the ground, and the distraught Bizarro decided to leave Metropolis. The army dropped bombs on Bizarro, but he was unharmed and told them he’d save them the trouble of destroying him by committing suicide. Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane were following Bizarro in the Daily Planet news helicopter, and Lois snapped some pictures of Bizarro flying full speed into a mountainside. Bizarro was unharmed and upset at still being alive until he overheard Lois fawning over her shots of him, and misunderstood what she was saying, thinking she’d fallen in love with him. Bizarro tried to kill Superman with kryptonite to keep him from interfering in what he thought was a budding romance.

(Superman I #169) - Mr. Mxyzptlk was loitering outside the 5th Dimensional town hall when the mayor scolded him for his cruel pranks. The mayor tried to start his car, but it fell apart thanks to a spell by Mxy, who laughed so hard that he got lockjaw. Mxy thought it would be an excellent time to pester Superman because he couldn’t say his name backwards if he tried. Superman was in his fortress inspecting his latest gifts from other worlds, a singing plant and a telepathic device from the planet Brrym. He changed into Clark Kent and went to work at the Daily Planet, but Jimmy insisted he take a coffee break and watch television with him. A perfume commercial came on, and the woman in the commercial sprayed perfume through the TV into Jimmy’s eyes. The channel flipped to a western, and a gunfighter shot bullets through the TV that Jimmy was barely able to duck, and Superman knew that these hijinks had to be the work of Mr.  Mxyzptlk. Superman caught up with Mxy at a baseball stadium where he replaced the helium in the balloons fans were holding with to super-helium, causing them to drift into the air until Superman saved them. Mxy then went to the Superman Museum, targeting a statue of Superman holding up the planet Krypton and changing Krypton into a giant pumpkin, infuriating Superman. Mxy used sign language to brag to Superman that he couldn’t say his name. Superman put on a charity performance at a circus, engaging with fierce animals, but Mxy made him a laughingstock by changing the lion he was facing into a kitten. Superman thought back to the last time he’d faced Mxy, when he’d put an alarm in his hat set to buzz when he started to say his name, and Superman beat him by frying the alarm making the overconfident Mxy an easy target for tricking into saying his name backwards. Superman had a brainstorm, and disguised himself as a haberdasher, offering Mxy a more stylish hat., Mxy tried it on, but saw through his trick. He signed out his name backwards, and was shocked when his hat spoke “Kltpzyxm” in his voice. Superman had putt the telepathic device he’d gotten from Brrym in the hat, and it had broadcasted Mxy’s thought, so he was sent back to the 5th Dimension.

(Superman I #169) - Teenage Ned Barnes grew up idolizing Superboy, and one day his house caught fire and Superboy rescued him, but his face was horribly burned. A brilliant plastic surgeon offered to repair his face and Ned asked him to make him look just like his hero Superboy. Ned Barnes was a weakling and suffered years of bullying because of his resemblance to Superboy without any of his strength. Ned grew to hate Superboy, and vowed revenge on him. As an adult Ned turned to crime, and mobsters Big Tony and Gunner hired him for a job because of his resemblance to superman. Dressed as Superman he entered a top-secret manufacturing plant and took pictures of a prototype spaceship, claiming he was on a mission from the NSA. His ruse was uncovered and he went into hiding. As fate would have it he ran into Sally Selwyn, who was once in a romantic relationship with Clark Kent, who she knew as Jim White. She thought Jim had drowned and was overjoyed that her long lost love had returned. She imagined that Jim survived his fall into the water and suffered from amnesia, but hoped she could resume their relationship. Ned played along, but hoped to get out of town once the heat died down, and Sally soon noticed that her paramour was a lot rougher around the edges than she’d remembered. The real Clark Kent learned about Ned Barnes crime over the news wire and asked Perry White if he could cover the story. Perry agreed, and told him to go to the Ace Ranch and buy a horse. Perry had just lost a bet with Jimmy Olsen after picking Daily Planet in a horse race, and wanted his own horse named after his newspaper that would be a winner. Clark found a stallion that fit the bill, but when Sally, whose father owned the ranch, spotted him she thought he was Jim and embraced and kissed him. Clark’s memory of his time with Sally suddenly came back, and he was overwhelmed that a woman loved him for himself, as Clark Kent and not Superman. Clark tumbled on to the fact that she thought he was Ned, and decided to sleep on the matter. In the morning Clark decided that he was in love and wanted to marry Sally, which he’d do right after bringing Ned to justice. Ned started to feel bad about fooling sally because he could see what a good heart she had, but his reverie was interrupted by big Tony and Gunner. They thought he’d skipped out on them and decided to marry and go straight. Gunner aimed his rifle at Sally, who was in the distance, saying he’d kill her to get back at Ned. Ned fought them, and they all tumbled down a cliff. Tony and gunner died instantly, but Ned clung to life. Superman found him, and his dying wish was that superman not tell Sally that Ned was really a criminal because he didn’t want to break her heart. Superman was in shock, and came to the realization that if he married Sally crooks like Gunner and Tony would come after her all the time, so he couldn’t give in and marry her. Superman met Sally and told her her love sacrificed his life to save her. Sally broke down in tears in her father’s arms, saying that it seemed like a cruel joke that she’d been reunited with the man of her dreams only for him to die again. She said she’d always keep the love she had for Jim White in her heart.

(Action Comics I #379) - Clark Kent covered the funeral of noted occultist Dr. Phantas. Phantas’ lawyer Mark Sharpe showed Clark around Phantas’ mansion, and said no one knew where Phantas came from or how he came by his supernatural powers, and Clark thought the lawyer’s stories were poppycock. At the funeral a tape and projection of Phantas was played, saying he forbade anyone to open his coffin, lest they bring a horrible curse on themselves. Sharpe needed to open the coffin to find out who Phantas’ heirs were, so Clark said he’d get his friend Superman to do it, and changed outside. Superman opened the casket, only for Phantas to rise up and tell him Clark Kent and all his friends would pay dearly for activating his curse before vanishing. Superman was convinced there had to be a logical explanation, but when his story ran Perry White played up the curse angle. That afternoon Lois alerted Clark that his friend Ed Carver had died under mysterious circumstances, and Jimmy Olsen was convinced it was the curse, but Lois chalked it up to coincidence. Reporter Steve Fallon, who Clark knew, died when a liquid oxygen truck turned over on the highway and the liquid froze him to death. Lois now agreed with Jimmy that something was off, and Perry sent Clark home for the sake of staff morale. Three more of Clark’s reporter friends died and Clark found himself ostracized from the Metropolis press club. Clark was set to appear on Greet The Press, but the show was cancelled when his friend Ned Masters was electrocuted by his microphone. Clark realized that all the reporters to die had been with him on a recent plane flight from Washington, and disguised himself as Mark Durbin, the last reporter besides himself from the flight that was still alive, and hid with Mark win a bank vault. A ghostly Phantas, calling himself the Eliminator passed through the vault’s walls and when “Mark” asked him why he was trying to kill him Phantas thought he was feigning ignorance. Phantas recounted how the reporters were all actually renegade murderers from Rhadmath fleeing justice. They’d used Rhadmanthian transverter technology to assume the forms and memories of the reporters aboard the plane from Washington, teleporting them into their spaceship and taking their place. They could not target Clark because of his Kryptonian physiology. Phantas was the Eliminator of Rhadmath, taked with executing the criminals, and traveled to Earth to pursue them, setting up the ruse of an occultist and his curse on Clark Kent to keep secret the involvement of Rhadmanthians on Earth. Phantas struck “Mark” with a bolt of energy, disintegrating his disguise, but the beam ricocheted and killed the real Durbin. Phantas freed the real reporters from the Rhadmanthians spaceship, and told Superman not to judge him, because as Eliminator he was tasked with enforcing the law of his homeworld.

(Action Comics I #380) - The Superman Revenge Squad sent the Liquidators, Dorx and Krit, to Earth with a detailed plan to destroy Superman’s reputation. Superman returned from a mission in space, and the Liquidators surreptitiously exposed him to artificial red kryptonite that gave him a conscience syndrome that would make him prone to feeling guilty for things he had not done. The Liquidators destroyed the Iwo Jima memorial and replaced it with a Superman statue, and Krit, wearing robotic armor, smashed into the Metropolis Mint, melted a number of coins and engraved Superman’s likeness on others. The authorities were convinced that some evil doer was trying to frame Superman and ruin his reputation, but Superman’s conscience syndrome made him wonder if he was having blackouts and committing crimes. Superman suspected that if he was responsible his behavior could be explained by exposure to red kryptonite, and went to the Fortress of Solitude to use his newly created red k detector. Dorx, disguised as Supergirl, met him there, and offered to help him use the detector. Superman stepped inside the detector, which ran an electrical current over him that would turn him red if he’d been exposed to red k, and although the test revealed his exposure Dorx lied to him, saying he hadn’t changed color. Dorx suggested he chain himself up before going to sleep, and if he broke the chains in his sleep he’d know he was committing crimes after falling unconscious. She also poured chemicals on the chains that would shatter them before Superman woke, and after rejoining Krit they destroyed Mt. Rushmore, then carving Superman’s image into the mountain. Superman was convinced that he was guilty, and had a criminal superego that was surfacing. He went to the Daily Planet, typed out a number of stories in which he confessed to the Liquidator’s crimes, and gave his confession to Perry, Lois and Jimmy, who told him they believed he was innocent. Superman returned to the Fortress and retrieved his box containing gold kryptonite, which would forever remove his super powers, deciding that was preferable to abusing his great power to cause harm. Superman stopped when he realized the Liquidators left evidence of their schemes, and after getting them to confess he cleared his name.

(Action Comics I #382) - Clark Kent wrote an obituary for his friend Mr. Presto, a world famous magician who’d left his chest of magic tricks to Clark. Clark noticed the balloons Lois was going to bring to the children’s hospital were floating against the ceiling, and flew up to retrieve them, knowing no one would see him. He returned them to Lois, who was suspicious as to how he got them down, once again accusing him of being Superman. He said he’d used Presto’s magic wand, and when Lois demanded to see another trick Clark wove the wand, and woke a sleeping Perry White, who was lifted off his office couch. Clark had actually used his x-ray vision to create a negative magnetism in the couch springs, which repelled Perry, who had a metal cigar case in his coat. Perry was infuriated, and fired Clark. Clark told Lois he was inspired to take Presto’s tricks and start a career as a stage magician. She thought it was a foolish career change, but wished him luck anyway. Kento the Great showed up at a talent agency, and after foiling a robbery of the agency the grateful talent agent got him a number of lucrative bookings where Kento used his superpowers to feign magic tricks. Jimmy Olsen attended the shows and after writing a number of glowing reviews in the Daily Planet Perry fired him for giving Kento free publicity. Kento hired Jimmy as his magician’s assistant, portraying Samson, the Might a “magic puppet” who could perform feats of strength. Criminal Rogan and his gang stole Samson, hoping to use the puppet to dig the sky-gem, a carbonized satellite that passed through a comet and turned into a giant diamond, out of the mountain it crashed into. After realizing Samson was Jimmy Olsen in a costume, returned to find Kento and learn his secrets. Kento was aware of Rogan because of his x-ray vision, and constructed a Superman puppet, using ventriloquism to make it appear alive. Rogan hit Kento with a blackjack, and Kento pretended to be knocked out, but when they drove off with the Superman puppet he disguised himself as the puppet and used his superspeed to take its’ place without the crooks noticing. After retrieving the sky-gem he dropped the act and arrested the criminals. When Perry learned that Superman had given Clark and Jimmy the exclusive rights to the sky-gem story he hired them both back, but Clark mused that he might one day take up stage magic again.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #129) - Superman brought Jimmy's dad to stay with him while his estate was being remodeled. He presented Jimmy with half a medallion he got from the Mayans and told him the story of its original owner, a South American Indian king from 2,000 years ago who had superpowers. When he died his children split the medallion in two so neither would have its power, and one man founded the Mayan empire, while the other founded the Incan empire. Jimmy revealed that he had the other half of the medallion, given to him by Professor Lang. Superman used his  heat-vision to fuse the medallion, and when Jimmy grabbed it he gained the powers of flight, lightning-vision and the ability to generate a forcefield. As Ultra-Olsen he prevented disasters until crooks Gripper and Dapper kidnapped his dad and demanded he rob for them if he wanted him back. Jimmy was forced to go on a crime-spree, and when Superman tried to stop him he found he couldn't touch Ultra-Olsen. Jimmy hinted that his powers would soon fade, because they were recharged only when kinetic energy was directed against him. When his powers ran out Superman tracked down Gripper and Dapper, using the signal-watch Jimmy had hidden in with the stolen goods he'd delivered to them. Superman reunited Jimmy and his dad, and had all charges against Olsen dropped.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #129) - Jimmy found the mystic pen of prophecy in the street, washed away from the museum where it belonged by fire hoses during a blaze. When his typewriter broke he used the pen to try to finish a story about criminal informant "Rook": Carney, but the pen took over and forced him to write the truth, that Carney was trapped in a sub after having fled his old compatriots. Superman brought Carney to the F.B.I. and Jimmy found that every time he put his mind to solving a mystery the pen did it for him. Superman gave it a go, and it forced him to tell the story of his secret identity. With some quick thinking he added a line at the end saying it was all a joke before Jimmy could read it. Superman spilled the rest of the ink and found a note in the pen s box that revealed its history as formerly belonging to Edgar Allan Poe. Jimmy regretted not having any more ink to solve mysteries, but Superman was just glad his secret identity was safe.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #130) - Brainiac used a tele-mento ray that could control humans and robots to put a computer blueprint in Jimmy Olsen's mind. He then used the ray on an electronic store clerk, who disassembled Brainiac and put his computer systems on the shelves. Jimmy used the parts to build an advanced mini-computer he dubbed the J.O. Jimmy used the computer to play chess against an electronic Superman chess-player and to win at the horse races before it instructed him to get to the Fortress of Solitude. Superman took Jimmy to his base before he had to leave for a space mission. Brainiac then used the tele-mento ray to take over one of Superman's robots, who flew to the fortress and feigned death throes, claiming to have been hit by a kryptonite meteor. Jimmy implanted the J.O. inside his 'friend' to save him. The robot, now calling himself Computer-Man pretended to rage at Jimmy for turning him into a freak, and was prepared to destroy Kandor. Brainiac wanted to break Jimmy's spirit and ruin Superman s reputation at the same time. Jimmy tried to appeal to him by playing the Kryptonian national anthem, and realized there was something wrong when he didn't recognize it. The Superman Emergency Squad took down Computer-Man and disassembled Brainiac's computer circuits.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #130) - Jimmy attended the Young Man of the Year awards, and was a candidate, but he lost out to Robin. He griped that Robin wasn't a regular joe like him, and that anyone could be Robin if they had all his cool gadgets. Robin gave him a chance to be a replacement Robin for a few days, and gave him a costume and tools. Jimmy made a fool of himself, hitting himself in the head with a batarang and crashing through a window when he mistimed a rooftop jump. He did stumble across the fact that the new Metropolis newspaper the Morning Mercury was a front for criminals. He tried to take down the Flying Mercurys, but they beat him up, and he was almost crushed by their printing press before Superman saved him and took down the gang. Jimmy had to admit to Robin that he was a ';teen blunder,'; but Robin applauded his efforts.

(Forever People I #1) - Jimmy's friends Bobby and Laurie gave him photos they snapped of the Forever People, heralding the arrival of the New Gods on Earth, and Jimmy straightaway showed them to Clark.

(Superman I #295) - Jimmy covered Superman's battle with new super-criminal Father Time for WGBS. Father Time vanished after stealing Superman's costume, and turned out to be a Green Lantern from the future who needed to orchestrate the fight and steal the costume in a convoluted plan to save the future from the Time Trapper.

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(Superman I #298) - Superman was trying to decide to live the rest of his life either as a superhero or as Clark Kent. The decision weighed on him, and he dropped by Jimmy's to talk to him. Jimmy put on the radio, and a broadcast announced that debuting supervillain Solarman was running amuck. He told Superman he should be out saving lives and not wasting time on chit-chat. Superman agreed and flew off, but realized that he missed having a civilian identity that didn't have the pressures of a Superman and could actually connect with his friends.

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(DC Comics Presents #11) - Lois, Jimmy and Perry met with Marc Teichman, winner of the Daily Planet s charity lottery drawing and a Super-Day of spending time with Superman.

(DC Comics Presents #12) - Jimmy covered the heroics of Metropolis  newest hero, Mr. Miracle.  Superman admitted to Jimmy, off the record, that Miracle was getting to him, especially when he saw his former fans wearing Mr. Miracle t-shirts. It turned out that Miracle s bravado was a set-up to help Superman capture Intergang mobsters who s used a Mentropy Machimne on Miracle, keeping him from warning Superman about their plans to use the machine on him.

(DC Comics Presents #14) - Pete Ross used his resources to track down one of Lex Luthor s labs, and used a time travel and mind-transfer device to bring Superboy into the present and switch minds with him. He attacked Superman and bound him in kryptonite chains, and assembled Perry White, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Steve Lombard to act as witnesses for Superman s trial, and told the story of how Superman failed to save his son from the Nyrvnian aliens. Superman s friends realized he wasn t guilty of anything except failing, and voted that Pete/Superboy set him free. Pete disregarded them, and threatened to kill them after disposing of Superman. He used a bazooka to fire a kryptonite shell at Superman, but missed. He went into space to collect more kryptonite, but Superboy, in Pete s body, had escaped his captivity and returned to the Kent farm to find a way to help his future self. He  found Krypto s dog whistle, and used it to summon help for his future self. Superman defeated Pete and put his mind back in his own body. Superboy was excited to meet his future self, but he was far more excited to return to his own time. Superman owed to restore Pete Ross  sanity.

(DC Comics Presents #16) - Black Lightning came to the Daily Planet looking to find Superman. Lois and Jimmy tried to interview him, but Black Lightning wasn t interested.

(DC Comics Presents #20) - Lois, Clark and Jimmy were set to see a monster movie when Clark checked his answering machine and got a message from Fred Garmer, who said he had dirt on his boss Bo Force, a wealthy industrialist. Jimmy recalled that Fred had been killed that morning, and Clark feigned a fear of scary movies to bow out of the night, but Lois and Jimmy knew he was really planning to investigate Garmer's death.

(DC Comics Presents #22) -Jimmy covered the story of Superman preventing pollution caused by an oil spill, and witnessed the empowered Captain Comet beg Superman to help him regain his abilities.

(DC Comics Presents #23) - Lois and Jimmy covered a S.T.A.R. Labs experiment intended to prove that under the right conditions sub-atomic particles could think, but they accidentally opened a hole in time and space that allowed Captain Ezra Hawkins, a magically cursed privateer from Earth-2 and his crew to our dimension. Superman responded and found that the mad Captain believed he was in Spanish territory, and wanted a fight. He took Lois Lane hostage, and Superman was wary because his vulnerability to magic made a rescue attempt risky. Hawkins made Superman fly his ship to city hall, and planned to slaughter everyone inside. Just then Dr. Fate emerged from an one-dimensional portal from Earth-2, pursuing El Muchacho, the imp that had cursed Hawkins. Fate forced Muchacho to remove his curse from Hawkins, making him an ordinary man again, and returned everyone to their proper time and dimension.

(DC Comics Presents #27) -Star-spanning world conqueror Mongol wanted control of the legendary Warworld, a planet-sized doomsday weapon, but needed a crystal key in a New Mars crypt to unlock it. After shrinking Superman s friends Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Steve Lombard, and imprisoning them in a cube he contacted Superman, and ordered him to retrieve the key, or his friends lives would be forfeit. Superman knew Mongul was up to no good, but decided to play along until he could rescue his friends. He traveled to New Mars, and Martian Manhunter told him the key was under his protection. He tried to convince Superman that he didn't know what Mongul was capable of , but Superman assured him he knew what he was doing. Manhunter refused to stand down, they battled, and Superman defeated the hero and took the key from its hidden crypt. Mongul arrived on New Mars, and when Superman refused him the key he prepared to kill Superman s friends, but they were saved by Manhunter. Mongul snatched the key and flew away in his spacecraft. Manhunter chided Superman for his overconfidence and hubris. Superman, feeling responsible, vowed to track him down after he returned his friends to Earth.

(DC Comics Presents #31) - Lois and Jimmy took in the Sterling Circus, and were baffled by a performer billed as a Superman tribute who actually performed super-feats. Jimmy wanted to investigate, but Lois reminded him they were at the circus to relax. In truth the performer was Superman, who d discovered that Sterling Circus  performers were all being mind-controlled, and faked being under hypnosis to work as one of the circus troupe.

(DC Comics Presents #32) - Steve Lombard gave Jimmy tickets for a baseball game, and the next day when Jimmy told him how much fun it was Steve hit him up for money.

(DC Comics Presents #33, 34) - Perry assigned Jimmy to do a story on Captain Marvel, who d shown up in Metropolis not long ago, comparing him with Superman. Captain Marvel was from Earth-S, and on Jimmy s Earth he existed only as a fictional character in old comic books, so Jimmy used them for reference. Clark Kent was bemused that Jimmy had a new hero, and Jimmy told him everyone wanted to know who was stronger; Marvel or Superman. Clark had an adventure as Superman with Captain Marvel, and the day was saved thanks to Captain Marvel Bunny.  Jimmy found Clark reading Hoppy the Marvel Bunny comics from his research pile and told him he never liked funny animal comics because they weren't realistic.

(DC Comics Presents #38) - Jimmy was recklessly driving off a mountain when he drove off a cliff. He used his emergency watch, but when Superman responded time had stopped thanks to the machinations of extra dimensional villainess Syryna. Superman defeated her sand saved Jimmy, but needed to talk to him about driving safety.

(DC Comics Presents #39) - Clark and Jimmy covered the Acme City top expo because Superman s old villain Toyman had been released from prison, and was now making an honest living again as a toymaker. Acme City crooks Dollface and Fliptop stole one of Toyman s playthings, and he returned to a life of crime. Jimmy tired to talk him down, but was trapped in a toy playset for his trouble. Superman teamed with Plastic Man to defeat Toyman, Dollface and Fliptop.

(DC Comics Presents #41) - Jimmy got a report over the newswire that Joker had broken Prankster out of prison, and asked Lois if she wanted to cover the story. She said costumed crooks bored her silly, but Clark was interested in investigating as Superman.

(DC Comics Presents #52) - Lois and Jimmy covered the Metropolis Day parade when villain Ambush Bug made his debut, killing DA Syms. Doom Patrol member Negative Woman's powers were out of control, and she destroyed buildings on the parade route and floats. The damage knocked out Lois and Jimmy's signal, so Jimmy grabbed a Nikon and went in the streets to document Superman trying to contain Ambush Bug and Negative Woman. Not one, but two different parade balloons landed on him, and he missed all the action.

(Action Comics I #562) - Jimmy and the rest of the Daily Planet employees got tickets to Steve Lombard's play "Damn Yankees," but Jimmy gave his away because he had no interest in Lombard's acting.

(Action Comics I #565) - Jimmy was sent to Kurtiswana, Africa to cover the excavation of Wizard City. The Wizard City Warrior imprisoned Jimmy, and when Superman went looking for Jimmy the Warrior defeated him. The Warrior flew to Metropolis to destroy it with chain-reaction grenades but Jimmy used a Wizard City catapult to return Superman to Metropolis to defeat the villain.

(Action Comics I #566) - Jimmy drove Lois and Clark to the airport, where they departed to take a trip to the Bahamas to get a story from Captain Strong.

(Action Comics I #568) - Jimmy used a thought actualizer left behind by a future criminal to create dream dates for himself, Lois and Clark. Jimmy met a female version of himself named Jennifer Crocker, but Shvaugn of the Science Police came to the present to take the actualizer away, and Jennifer disappeared.

(Action Comics I #573) - Superman stopped an oil fire on Metropolis bridge and brought the commuters to safety using a popcorn slide. It was hot dog vendor Ernie Doyle's popcorn and he started marketing it as "The Popcorn That Saved Metropolis." Jimmy and Lois thought they'd see what the buzz was about.

(Action Comics I #574) - When extraterrestrial Rad Zonan challenged Superman to a series of sporting events Jimmy became suspicious and contacted Dr. Jenet Klybern of S.T.A.R. Labs. Sensitive equipment judged the winners of the sporting events, and Zonan emerged as the victor and left earth, but Klyburn learned that Superman actually won and that energy from Zonan's body altered the equipment's reading. Superman revealed to Jimmy and Klyburn that Zonan had used treatments to give himself the strength of a youthful member of his species and that they'd soon result in his death. Superman didn't care that he "lost," the games were a fitting tribute to Zonan's people, the Ostok, who'd been wiped out soon after Krypton exploded.

(Action Comics I #574) - Mr. Mxyzptlk was so proud of the birth of his son Kytsbtn that he threw a party and the Daily Planet, forced Jimmy and other staff members to attend, and decided to commemorate the decision by freezing time and keeping the day from ever ending. Clark reminded him that if he froze time he would never have the pleasure of seeing his son growing up. Mxy saw the logic in this, set things right, and returned to the 5th Dimension.

(Action Comics I #576) - Jimmy covered Superman's unveiling of a statue of himself for Youth Day in Metropolis, but the statue was switched with the hero Vaalor, who'd been trapped in a metal coating by the Voron invaders who attacked Metropolis. In an act of desperation Vaalor used his mental powers to switch minds with Superman and went after the Vorons, but he wasn't used to Supes powers and couldn't round up the aliens. Jimmy Olsen remembered that the Vorons were vulnerable to ultrasound, so he set off his signal-watch, which freed Vaalor's body from its encasing. Superman and Vaalor teamed up to defeat the Vorons, and then Vaalor put Superman's mind back in its proper body.

Comments: Created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster.

Elastic Lad received a profile in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #7.

Jimmy Olsen had cameos in DC Comics Presents #28, 29, Superman I #299.

Jimmy Olsen appearance in Action Comics I #254 was reprinted in 80-Page Giant Magazine #6, Superman I #169 was reprinted in Superman Family #168, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #24 was reprinted in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #129.

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