Jimmy Olsen #70 (DC)
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With a misleading cover (typical of DC in the sixties) and three short stories this old fashioned comic was well worth a read. This issue kicks off with Jimmy Olsen's Boo Boo's in which a visit to the Smallville Jimmy Olsen Fan Club goes awfully wrong as the children of The Superman Revenge Club try to break up Jimmy & Superman's friendship. by sabotaging all of Jimmy's demonstrations.
Superman has to save the day and after their third trick see the pair fall out but when the aliens return to their parents ship Superman & Jimmy fly past having realised what had been going on and played along. The lads simply get a spanking from their villainous parents. The shame.
In the second story Jimmy becomes a robot after being tricked (again) by an evil scientist wanting to blow up Superman with a Kryptonite bomb. Needless to say Superman isn't stupid and soon saves Jimmy and captures the crooks involved.
Finally there is the final story, The Secret of Silver Kryptonite. There's nothing of the sort is there? Green, Red, Blue, White and Gold but no silver? However Jimmy is collecting something hidden in lead from all of Superman's friends in order to present him with Silver Kryptonite. Even Supergirl helps Jimmy, but why?
What effect will this have on our hero and the surprise is sprung. It's a gift made of silver containing the busts of his friends in silver. Even Element lad turns up from the future to turn the stand into silver. It's Superman's 25th Anniversary present. There was nothing to worry about all along.
Great stuff that formed apart of the Superman family of comics throughout the sixties into the seventies when things began to change. These charming stories will never be repeated today's readers have different tastes but for those of us of a certain age....
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