American Update: Superman’s Pal and Gal
*DC: A significant update to the Man of Steel’s ‘Special Chums’, Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane! Illustrated by the twin artistic talents of Curt Swan and Kurt Schaffenberger, the beautiful drawings sold an utter frenzy of outrageous nonsense for decades, as Lois and Jimmy encountered: Aliens! Robots! Alien Robots! Strange bodily transformations! Transvestism! Space Babes! Space Hunks! Accidental/amnesiac/inadvertent marriages to aliens/robots/villains/gorillas/Bizarros! (Oh, don’t look like that – we’ve all done it…) Jailbait romance! Superman’s True Love, Lana Lang! The Legion of Super-Heroes! (Whenever intergalactic evil of the future is, you know, having a day off…) Naïve double entendres! Super-Babies! And the perma-grumpy termagant trolley-dolly Lucy Lane, the most unrelentingly vile harridan of a ‘romantic interest’ ever! It’s all here, folks… Lois is restocked where necessary between numbers #10 to #132, Jimmy between numbers #41 to #150, the latter title including several of the sought-after Jack Kirby issues of Jimmy, including the second appearance of the ruler of Apokalips, Darkseid. (Who, it turns out, is alone in NOT being a member of Jimmy Olsen’s Outer-Space Fan Club! (Oh, yes: That was a thing…) Buy them! Read them! Listen to the sound of your brains dribbling out of your ears! You’ll love it!