Jimmy Olsen #1 (DC Maxi Series)

Jimmy Olsen #1 (DC)

Matt Fraction (w) Steve Leiber (a)

Part of the attraction  of "Silver Age" DC comics for me both then and now was the ability to have fun within the superhero world including following the impossibly ludicrous antics of Jimmy Olsen promoted as "Superman's Best Pal" or Lois Lane billed as "Superman's Girlfriend". Both managed to get themselves in some weird fixes. Lois of course went on to marry Clark Kent and they now have a son called Jon.

Both characters have been given mini-series by DC. Lois Lane's looked a bit to serious for my limited comics budget so I opted to go for Jimmy Olsen. And it's a homage to all those weird and wacky stories that I read in the sixties and is a bit of fun though I have stopped at issue #5 for monetary reasons rater than anything else.

Featuring Perry White always wanting to sack Olsen and stopping Jimmy calling him "Chief" he's persuaded to send him out of the city to a real dump following another stunt that went somewhat wrong despite the intervention of Superman.

Rating: 3 Stars

Now where's that signal-watch?