Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen by Jack Kirby

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (1954) #133-139, 141-148

by Jack Kirby (Writer/Illustrator), Vince Colletta (Illustrator), Mike Royer (Illustrator)

Legendary comics creator Jack Kirby reinvented the superhero genre with his sprawling saga of the Fourth World--a bold storytelling vision that was decades ahead of its time.

In honor of this extraordinary talent's centennial, DC Comics is proud to re-present the groundbreaking work of the King of Comics in a brand-new series of trade paperback editions, collecting his classic DC titles in all their four-color glory!

Kirby debuted his larger-than-life epic in the pages of DC's beloved sidekick showcase, Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen--and the Man of Steel's world would never be the same! After resurrecting the Newsboy Legion--his scrappy band of half-pint heroes from the Golden Age of Comics--Kirby launched them headlong into some of the strangest adventures ever to befall Daily Planet stalwarts Jimmy Olsen and Clark Kent!

Beyond the boundaries of civilization, in the uncharted land known as the Wild Area, radical new societies are forming--including vibrant tribes like the Hairies and the Outsiders. Young and free, they answer to no authority save their own!

But behind the jet-powered cycles and otherworldly weapons of these cantankerous clans there lurks a hidden power whose dark ambitions are greater than anyone could suspect. When its true nature is finally revealed, what will it mean for the future of Metropolis--and Earth itself?

Gasp at the spectacle of super-science unleashed--and thrill to the imaginative power of one of the medium's greatest masters--in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen by Jack Kirby, collecting the King's complete run on the celebrated series from issues #133-139 and #141-148.

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Superman, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Graphic Novels Comics, Science Fiction

360 pages, Paperback

First published April 16, 2019

About the author

Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg) was one of the most influential, recognizable, and prolific artists in American comic books, and the co-creator of such enduring characters and popular culture icons as the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Hulk, Captain America, and hundreds of others stretching back to the earliest days of the medium. He was also a comic book writer and editor. His most common nickname is "The King."

Reviews

[Jayson · Rating 3 out of 5]

(B+) 76% | Good
Notes: Read in singles. Individual reviews for included issues can be found here:
- Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (1954-1974) #133
- Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (1954-1974) #134
- Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (1954-1974) #135
- Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (1954-1974) #136
- Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (1954-1974) #137
- Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (1954-1974) #138
- Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (1954-1974) #139
- Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (1954-1974) #141
- Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (1954-1974) #142
- Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (1954-1974) #143
- Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (1954-1974) #144
- Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (1954-1974) #145
- Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (1954-1974) #146
- Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (1954-1974) #147
- Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (1954-1974) #148

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen by Jack Kirby collects issues #133-139 and #141-148, all written and drawn by Jack Kirby.

When Jack Kirby left Marvel in 1969, his intent was to create the Fourth World at DC. In addition to the New Gods, Mister Miracle, and Forever People, he decided to take on DC's lowest selling title at time time, Jimmy Olsen.

Right out of the gate, this feels like the Fantastic Four without the Fantastic Four. Jimmy Olsen and Superman team up with the Newsboy Legion and go up against clones, bikers, monsters, the minions of Darkseid, and Scots.

I don't normally care that much for Superman of this era but Kirby uses him sparingly and he feels more like a Silver Age Marvel character than an invulnerable planet mover. He's more like Jimmy Olsen's sidekick in this book. Kirby brings the Newsboy Legion and the Golden Guardian back from mothballs and weaves them into the Fourth World saga, albeit as sons of the originals and a clone, respectively.

The influence of this run is surprising. I had no idea Project Cadmus was based on a Jack Kirby concept. The Newsboy Legion and the Golden Guardian were brought back into the fold in the 1990s as well. Darkseid makes his first appearance, although it's just as a behind the scenes manipulator.

The plots are pretty simplistic and Kirby's dialog is as clunky as Stan Lee's but the stories are pure fun in a dynamic Jack Kirby sort of way. There are giant machines, Kirby dots, aliens, monsters, and science fiction concepts like clones. Jimmy and the Newsies get shrunk, visit other dimensions, and bicker the entire time, much like the Fantastic Four did in their early days. I would say the art in the Fourth World books is Jack Kirby in his prime. I just wish Mike Royer inked the entire thing instead of Vicious Vince Colletta.

While his writing isn't the best, Jack Kirby's run on Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen is a bombastic thrill ride embodying the Kirby spirit. Four out of five stars.

[Christopher (Donut) · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were chances to read this before, but I was never all that interested.

I think that this time I took the plunge because two villains, Moktari and Simyan..(??) were used in an issue of Grant Morrison's Batman.

There are also "Fourth World" appearances, even the first appearance of Darkseid (?).

Supposedly, Kirby took on DC's worst-selling title as a challenge, and boasted he could turn it into a hit.

Eh.

Incidentally, I thought the glimpse Superman got of New Genesis in Forever People #1 was a seldom seen aspect of him, this longing to be with people of his own kind. I did not know Kirby had followed up that story with Superman's chance to visit "Supertown."

[Brandon · Rating 3 out of 5]

I sort of expected more for the first part of Jack Kirby's big "Fourth World" saga. This introduces Darkseid and some of the bigger concepts but they're basically background generic supervillain schemers here. Every story has Jimmy Olsen and his friends getting caught up in some wacky scheme, usually involving Jimmy Olsen himself becoming something new. Motorcycle king? Sure. Hulk? Why not! Tarzan? Yeah sure let's go. Some of the adventures are fun Kirby experimentation, while some of them are honestly kind of boring. The "Newsboy Legion" as Kirby reimagines them are pretty cliche and honestly kind of dated (let's not talk about Flippa Dippa) in a bad way. Still, it's a fun start to the series and some neat uses of Superman as a supporting character.

[Jeff Bleyle · Rating 4 out of 5]

As an eight-year-old comic shopping kid, Jack Kirby's early 1970s run on Jimmy Olsen largely escaped me as my younger sensibilities and tastes were more attuned to the simpler and campier stories of the Silver Age. However several of the covers from these JO comics made a big impression, especially the Don Rickles issues. Kirby's imagination just bursts off the pages of these issues, especially some of the artwork in those two page spreads! If these are the lesser of Kirby's influential Fourth World saga, I am anxious to get to some of these other Kirby Centennial DC offerings. Mister Miracle is up next...

[William Cardini · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have mixed feelings about these comics. On the one hand, they're part of Jack Kirby's Fourth World! I've loved The New Gods and Mister Miracle since I first read the black-and-white trade paperbacks in the early 2000's, but I'd never read Kirby's issues of Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen until now (and I still haven't read The Forever People–I really wish DC would do a similarly styled trade paperback reprint of The Forever People in full color; hopefully they're planning on it). And all the moments in these comics touching on the Fourth World are really cool. But on the other hand, they're super goofy. Almost every scene with the Newsboy Legion is pretty silly. I do think it's funny that Kirby decided to bring back this kid gang that he and Joe Simon created in the 40's but I'm just not that into it.

Another mark against Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen is that we're not really getting undiluted Kirby here. Throughout, I noticed that Superman and Jimmy Olsen have much prettier faces than Kirby usually draws for his male characters. Even when Kirby draws a handsome man like Thor, he still looks hewn from granite. If you look at the Table of Contents, the credits for one of the issues say that Neal Adams redrew Superman and Jimmy Olsen's heads, but after reading this blog post from Kirby's former assistant, Mark Evanier, it sounds like DC had other artists redraw their heads to be more in-brand in all the issues and they didn't keep full-resolution copies of Kirby's original pencils. Lame. At least they included some copies of Kirby's pencils in the back of this book so you can get an idea of what his Superman would've looked like.

[Jesús · Rating 4 out of 5]

Campy and goofy, and a bit less daring than Kirby’s other work for DC in the ‘70s. But despite the strong constraints of a high-profile character like Superman, Kirby finds some room for his boundless imagination.

[Gwynplaine · Rating 4 out of 5]

More 3.5 really

[Fizzgig76 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reprints Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #133-139 and #141-148 (October 1970-April 1972). Jimmy Olsen and the children of the original Newsboy Legion find themselves sent to the Wild Area by their new boss Morgan Edge. There, Jimmy discovers a new world of adventure involving the Harriers, Project D.N.A., and a handful of clones. What Jimmy and his friend Superman don’t know is that Earth is about to be brought into an intergalactic war with Darkseid and his minions on Apokolips. As Jimmy and the Newsboy Legion trip the fantastic, Darkseid’s forces are growing stronger, and Jimmy and the Newsboys could unwittingly be Earth’s first line of defense!

Written and illustrated by Jack Kirby, Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen by Jack Kirby is a DC Comics superhero collection. The series has been reprinted multiple times and issues in the volume Fourth World Omnibus—Volume 1-3 and Jack Kirby: The Fourth World Omnibus among other collections. Not included in the collection is Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #140 (September 1971) which was a reprint issue.

When Jack Kirby would have celebrated his 100th birthday in 2017, Marvel and DC began putting out a lot of high quality complete collections of his work. While Kirby’s Fourth World stuff has maintained an “attainable” collector’s price in general, it was great to finally get a solid, quality version of the story. Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen really kicks off Kirby’s Fourth World adventures, but I do admit that Kirby’s writing is often an acquired taste.

Kirby’s stories are both innovative and classic…but they can also be as confusing as hell. The whole set-up for the Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen story revolves around a place near Metropolis called the Wild Area where the Habitat is located and a motorcycle gang faces off against a group called the Harriers in a moving “mountain” in a submerged base. The Harriers are tied to the DNA Project (which apparently Superman knows about, and he’s ok with clones being made of his friends). The DNA Project is at odds with the Evil Project that is run by Darkseid’s men and bent on world domination. Somehow Jimmy and the Newsboy Legion fit into all of that…plus, Don Rickles and his look alike Goody Rickels. The story makes about as much sense as it sounds and kind of slogs along.

This is Kirby’s style however and even in the weirdness, there are glints of great science fiction involving the cloning, Boom Tubes, and other sci-fi tropes that Kirby seems to make feel new and different. Stylistically the writing doesn’t fit with DC Comics at the time, but it also doesn’t fit with Marvel…it is a weird in-between type of writing that feels like its own thing despite having Superman as a lead character.

What can’t be argued is that the art is classic Kirby. With big, stylized looks, Kirby creates giant machines, flying cars, and monsters that look just as at home in the books he illustrated years before. With Superman and Jimmy as the anchors, characters like the Newsboy Legion (who look and talk like they are from the ’40s) still manage to fit in with the style…and I also love when Kirby combines real images with cartoon images in big spreads…it feels unique to his style.

Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen by Jack Kirby is a weird, wild ride that not everyone will get into. This collection is the best and cleanest presentation of the stories which allows you to see the art and style that Kirby brought. I can’t imagine reading Jimmy Olsen as this was released and questioning what was going on…nor can I imagine what it was like to go back to “normal” stories when he left after Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #148. Kirby was King, and this is one of the books that made him.

[Sami Naik · Rating 3 out of 5]

This set of stories happened by chance as I was doing my research on Jack Kirby's Fourth World Saga.

For DC Comics fans, this will strictly come as a surprise that in Metropolis, Superman's friend and his Daily Planet co-worker Jimmy Olsen had his own line of comic book issues. The title was Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen and successfully ran for 20 years publishing 163 issues which indicate that the readers loved the character. And it is proven that Olsen has always been one of the most beloved 'supporting' characters.

And this will also come as a surprise that this is exactly the station where Jack Kirby's train arrives. I am talking about his return to DC Comics in 1970 and he insisted to start from here. And from here begins his famous Fourth World reading order.

No, I didn't read the entire 163 issues but the focal point was Kirby's work. He edited, write, and drew 16 Olsen issues from issue 133 to 148. You can call this set of issues as 'Adventures Of Jimmy Olsen'.

The president of Global Broadcasting System buys Daily Planet and therefore Morgan Edge becomes the owner. He sends Jimmy Olsen and a few workers on an assignment to investigate a location outside Metropolis called Wild Area, the forest region.

With this story, Kirby introduced a lot of things like Project Cadmus and its rival Evil Factory, Habitat's two communities The Outsiders and The Hairies, a crime organization called Intergang, vehicles Whiz Wagon and Mountain Of Judgment, the second Guardian, the second Newsboy Legion, and first appearance in a cameo of Darkseid.

The story holds the reading purpose for a few reasons. One is Jimmy's importance as a journalist, second is depicting Darkseid's evil acts through his disciples, connecting the old 1940s nexus of Guardian-Newsboy Legion to this storyline.

As usual, the drawings are astonishing. I like the work on Mountain Of Judgment, and evil projects Mokkari and Simyan created, and the blasts and destructions.

Adventures of Jimmy Olsen is basically a baseline of Jack Kirby's Fourth World Saga using a few elements connected to Darkseid. It is not a mind-blowing story but an idea to build expectations from the other publishing issues within the saga that ran with Olsen comics.

References: Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen Issues 133-148

[Cass Lee · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this as an intro to Kirby’s Fourth World Saga, an it’s not great. It’s campy and it’s fun and it introduces idea after idea that would be expanded on with great effect by other authors. That is proof at just how creative Kirby was. That said this is very dated from a storytelling perspective and for most issues I found myself just waiting for it to end. The Newsboy legion are dull tropes. Superman is fine in this, playing second fiddle gives other characters room to do their thing. But when that thing is Jimmy Olsen acting like an action hero, but treating himself as the same affable kid he’s remembered as in the silver era? There’s not enough to make it work.

All of the strengths of this comes from the art and the scenarios. It’s characteristic of this era to be carried by scenario, comics weren’t really character stories at the time. Ans they are interesting to great ends, with the villains perhaps being shallow, but nevertheless putting in work to ensure no two confrontations feel alike. The art is still fantastic. I can see the appeal of the Kirby dots, the perspective of each pose, the amazing environments. While the poses of Jack Kirby lack motion, a kinetic feel that show up most easily in something like Dragon Ball, they easily make up for that with momentum and power. Every panel makes the characters feel awe-some.

It’s just a shame the characters were so dull and tropey. Even Darkseid feels like nothing more than a Saturday morning schemer. If reading this on release, I would be surprised such a character made a return at all, he seems so one and done here.

[Beastyos · Rating 3 out of 5]

These are moments where I really wish you could rate with halfstars on goodreads, because this needs a 3.5. Certainly better in quality at least writing wise to the various Silver Age comics I've read, but less entertaining and interesting, and everytime that it does get interesting, Kirby remembers that he's writing for a Jimmy Olsen comic. He's given a lot of freedom, but he can't throw out the main character to just do what he wants.

Which makes me kind of excited for the rest of the fourth world, where he's not constraint by the boundaries of a joke comic about Superman's Pal. Not to say that the sillier stuff isn't good or has no right to be here, it was entertaining too, but it is where the book feels the most dated and a slog to read through.

Also it's a Jack Kirby book so it'd be hard to mention his amazing famously dynamic work, which I'm sure everyone has had to heard the praises of for decades, but my favourite part personally were the real life pictures used. They were weird, felt out of place and just overall uncanny, which is exactly why it worked considering the setting they were in, genuinely incredible work. I love when people expirement by stretching the boundaries of the medium, even if through simple pictures, it leaves other people wondering what else could be done.

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

I knew a lot of this returned during the 90's, mostly in the Superboy run when he became based out of Project Cadmus. It was still pretty surprising to see just how much it reused. There's some pretty out there stuff, especially at the beginning of this run. I get a kick out of the dialog. I guess Kirby was trying to use the lingo of the time for all the young people and they all talk like they are in a Scooby Doo episode and everyone is Shaggy. The Don Rickles two part appearance was pretty wacky. Rickles plays himself in it but also has a doppelganger named Goody Rickles working for WGBS alongside Jimmy and Clark. The Fourth World characters are in this a lot less than I expected. Besides Darkseid's first appearance, it's mainly two lesser scientists in the background causing problems. Although I do like the issue where Superman gets wistful while visiting Supertown amongst the New Gods.

[James Norton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Buy it for the artwork ignore the dialogue

The styles of Kirby's drawings are phenomenal, shade for textures implied motion in angles I collect Kirby for the artwork but the writing is why thousands of copies were thrown in the garbage. I was age appropriate when these came out but none of this forced "hip" dialogue works. It was probably having to conform to the Comic Code at the time but the attempted slang and the presentation of teenagers at that time feels about a hundred years out of date. I've never liked the Newsboy Legion as they always feel like hundred year old midgets, it all gets too trippy and frankly dull as most panels seem to be characters just saying their names.
There is one scene where they are looking in a microscope at the miniature DNA clones in a vile and there's hundreds of microscopic clones all floating around wearing tiny underwear, that deserved a smack to the back of the head of whoever approved that.

[Tim Rooney · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kirby’s New Gods stories are a masterful work of postmodern art, and while this series is tangentially related to that meta narrative, (including the first appearance of Darkseid) it is hardly the masterwork the three main FourthWorld books are. That said there’s plenty to like here. Being a second string spin off book Kirby had lots of room to be inventive with his stories and experimental in his art, employing a lot of mixed media and collage here that challenges comic book convention.

Kirby also writes a great Superman, balancing his serious determination and a playful spirit. There’s also a sadness and loneliness, a longing for a place to belong that carries over from the Forever People.

All that said the book battles what I assume were publishing demands that the book aim at young kids, and Kirby’s big ideas. Lots to like, though.

[Tshepiso · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars

Its difficult to assess older comics I don't connect with. Its obvious that the storytelling style wasn't made for me and I don't begrudge Jack Kirby's Jimmy Olsen for that. But I can't deny that I didn't find these stories engaing. Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen was occasionally amusing. The absolute absurdity stuff like secret cloning programs (whose ethics are never questioned), Jimmy becoming the leader of a gang, and the antagonist running a literal evil factory did make me chuckle but I couldn't connect to the stories being told even on a surface level.

Don't get me wrong I loved a lot of Jack Kirby's art. His visuals were inventive and distinct and his fourth world shows a ton of imagination. I was especially intrigued by his collage art, something I've never seen in comics before. But the characters and stories surrounding that world often fell flat

[Lena Fickle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was kind of an odd comic. It was kind of a lead-in to the Fourth World saga at DC Comics from Jack Kirby. It was Jack Kirby's first comics at DC in 1970 after leaving Marvel comics. It had some really weird stuff going on, such a microscopic Jimmy Olson, tiny clones of Scrapper from the Newsboy Legion, a giant green Jimmy Olson that looks kind of like the Hulk, mythological monsters, Jimmy Olson de-evolving to a pre-human form, etc. It did end introduce some of the mythology from DC comics that I've been seeing on cartoons since Superman The Animated Series such as the Whiz Wagon, Intergang, The DNA Project (later known as Project Cadmus), DNAliens, Dubbilex, and the clone of The Guardian. It also introduced one of the biggest villains in the DC Universe, Darkseid!

[Michael Nolan · Rating 4 out of 5]

If anybody ever questions Stan Lees input into the early Marvel comics, then they should read some of Jack Kirby’s solo work.
Kirby’s art & imagination is second to none , his plotting & dialogue however aren’t of the same standard.

I’ve read his Mr Miracle, Black Panther solo runs & now Jimmy Olsen and they are all the same. A bit confusing & a bit boring but still somehow entertaining thanks mainly to the fantastic art, especially the splash pages & his bat shit crazy ideas.

Just imagine how much better it would’ve been though with someone like Stan co-writing & helping with the dialogue. Kirby maybe a King in the comic world but Stan is a God.

[Julián "Mystletain" Rodríguez]

Puede que siguiendo otro orden de lectura del Cuarto Mundo intercalando las series no se me hubiera hecho una lectura tan farragosa, pero se me ha hecho un poco cuesta arriba.

Es una lectura curiosa por ver las semillas de tramas que luego otros autores volverían a tomar como intergang o el proyecto Cadmus (aqui d.n.alien) y los conceptos locos de Kirby sobretodo en la primera mitad, pero no tiene la magia que si estoy viendo en Forever People por ejemplo.

Casualidad haber acabado de leerlo en el aniversario de Kirby, si todas las máquinas se pareciesen a las que él dibujaba el mundo sería mil veces mas bonito.

P.D: Bombardeen a la legión de repartidores de periódicos

[Kevin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I grew up reading Jimmy Olsen stories in the pages of SUPERMAN FAMILY and had a few issues of SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN that led up to the title change, so I was used to the Mr. Action era of Olsen. I'd read Kirby's other Fourth World titles over the years but not his tangentially-connected Olsen run. This is some fun stuff, especially the 1970s versions of the Guardian and Newsboy Legion, but there are a lot of unanswered questions, chief among them being the change in Morgan Edge from Intergang member to straight corporate honcho (as he was portrayed in SUPERMAN and ACTION COMICS).

[Alan Duran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Going back to the beginning, there was a lot of characters and locations that ended up in the Byrne/Wolfman/Stern run of Superman Comics following Crisis On Infinite Earths back in the Eighties, which was introduced by the Master, Jack Kirby, in this run of Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, such as Integang, Dubbilex, and The Guardian. Darkseid also rears his ugly head. I preferred Mike Royer's inks to Vince Colletta's over Kirby's pencils.

[London Heady · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kind of really hard to rate. Complete nonsense, very dumb, and consistently undermining it's own characters it sets up. But also kind of incredible. Like a really charismatic drunk guy rambling to you about the "greatest idea ever." In a vacuum maybe it's terrible, but with the feelings he invokes in you, with the determination he has, you might just be convinced it really is the greatest idea ever.

[Greg Reimer · Rating 2 out of 5]

While this one has the seeds of Kirby's Fourth World story, it isn't enough to make this volume a hit for modern readers. I enjoyed seeing Jimmy Olsen and Superman in action, but the Newsboy Legion that costars in most of these issues, I found to be more annoying than interesting. The last couple issues were probably the best of the collection and I can recommend at least reading those, but the rest can be skipped, unless you want to dive into them for historic reasons. Bad. 2/5

[Francisco Becerra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kirby was pure imagination unleashed, period. Just in this run, I’ve seen ideas repeated almost 30 or 40 years later in other comics. His management of visual tension with outlandish poses is unparalled. And reading firsthand the mysterious beginnings of the Fourth World is beautiful. Some arguments in the run are a little bit outlandish and seemed forced by today’s standards of narrative, but still they are entertaining enough to suspend disbelief. Great read, as with anything Kirby!

[Marc Steiner · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wild Kirby ride

I had heard over the years how Jack Kirby wrote stilted dialog and did not do his best without Stan Lee, That Is definitely not the case here. In this collection are all of Kirby's written and drawn tales for the Jimmy Olsen title. It is wild, goofy, fun, and though created in the 1970s it reads as though it was created today as a single graphic novel.

[Chris Drew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Surprisingly entertaining introduction to the new gods work of Kirby, with the first few glimpses of Darkseid. Not totally contemporary, but treats the audience as a bit more intelligent and mature then lots of older comics. If you don't expect too much besides fun and neat looking Kirby art and wild concepts, then this does it.

[Bill Doughty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bananas even by 70s Jack Kirby standards, some of the clunkiest dialog and worst groan-inducing character names you'll ever see, but it sure doesn't lack in energy or gonzo ideas. Or Don Rickles. Seriously, there's even two of him here.

[Tim Vargulish · Rating 5 out of 5]

There's a reason why Kirby is the King. These stories still hold up as fun and wild rides with outstanding art to match!

[David Rickert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Man, these are bizarre comics. I never warmed up to the Newsboy League or I might have enjoyed them more. Great art, lackluster writing.

[Carrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

“You can bet your Aunt Mamie’s double-dyed doilies...” :)

Angry Charlie!

Superman in Supertown = Awkwardman :)