![]() ![]() I'd also like someone to explain how those bikes are TURNING to the right in mid-air after they leave the take-off ramp. An earlier, unpublished version of the cover had someone HOLDING a gun, and in that case, "GUN him down" would have made sense. Jimmy to say "RUN him down", as that's what you do to pedestrians. It would have fit in perfect in Uncle Mortie's run, wouldn't it? Meanwhile, while one may "gun" an engine, it would have made more sense for "JIMMY JOINS A BIKER GANG!" might have made a better title. The younger ones? Maybe I'm putting too much thought into this. HUH? Also, is it reasonable at all to call the originals the "fathers" of The new kids, who, AS FAR AS I CAN TELL, don't sell newspapers- and the originals, who no longer do that either, as- against any rational expectations- they've ALL become genetic scientists. There's TWO "Newsboy Legions" in this story. WHAT is the point- if any- of The NEW Newsboy Legion? Teaming a "Newsboy Legion" with a reporter like Jimmy sounds like an idea that works when you say it, but not when you try to think it thru. While John Buscema was stripping the edges off the vehicle in the FF book (to make it easier to draw- WHAT OTHER possible reason could there have been?), Jack was unveiling what Johnny Storm PROBABLY would have, if Stan hadn't been so insistent on POINTLESSLY giving him heartbreak by coming up with a totally-contrived reason for Crystal to no longer be able to stay in NYC. The Whiz Wagon naturally reminds one of the "next generation" of the Fantasti-Car. You can tell because it was originally gonna be "Tomorrow Never LIES", a reference to the name of the newspaper, "Tomorrow". That titleĭoesn't make any sense, by the way. Why did DC back off from this? In a way, Edge (or whichever real-life person may have inspired him) may have been the inspiration for the villain in the James Bond movie, "TOMORROW NEVER DIES". ![]() Morgan Edge- apparently- was NOT meant to be a clone (as later revealed), despite all the focus on clones in so many of these issues. What kind of management-employee relationship was this? In Jack's very 1st issue, the guy tries to have Clark Kent KILLED by having him run down by a car. How likely- or believable- was it really, to have a newspaperman suddenly become- AGAINST HIS WISHES- a TV anchorman? Was his boss aware of his dual identity? We know he had ultirior motives for much of what he did. I love how Jack had fun with the book's hokey title, plastering "Superman's EX-PAL, Jimmy Olsen" on several covers, and later, on the inside, "Jimmy Olsen's Pal, Superman". Did it never even occur to anybody at DC to change to NAME of that book, at least, to something less unwieldy, like, say. ![]() ![]() Any knowledge one way or the other? I find it wild that such a MAJOR change as transferring Clark Kent from his NEWSPAPER office to becoming a TVĪNCHORMAN should happen first in, of all places, "SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN". I believe the Superman line in general was being, or about to be, revamped about that time. Someone (?) at DC wanted Jack to do SUPERMAN- or at least, A Superman book- right? Was it that JO was losing its then-regular team, or did it have the lowest sales, and this was a way of showing what Jack could do, take ANY lousy piece of junk and turn it into a success? (He had tried that before with GREEN ARROW, heh.) JIMMY OLSEN #133 / Nov’70 “Jimmy Olsen Brings Back The Newsboy Legion” ![]()
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