Lois Looming Large #1 Burger Edition

I really loved the old Lois Lane books, not as much as those wild and crazy Jimmy Olsen books, but they were some of the best books around. One thing I enjoyed, besides how gorgeous and expressive Kurt Schaffenberger drew Lois, was the way in every story, almost always at the end, Lois would loom large in the foreground while we got to see some other action off in the background. It was great, expressive Lois emoting right in our face, her friends waaaay off in the distance, oblivious to the poor girls suffering/emoting/loving.

From Lois Lane #1 1958, "Lois Lane, Super-Chef"

Is it just me or does it look like Superman is just a torso cut in half and plopped onto the desk?

Weekly Wonderous Moment In Comics #51

So, as I was telling you earlier, Jimmy Olsen, cub reporter, went to the zoo with a professor that said he had developed a machine that would allow people to read the minds of animals. That sort of thing was really at the top of the public's Want List back in 1957. Sadly, the machine didn't work. Not until a gorilla started pushing some buttons. (park your cursor over the pictures for extra Chris Sims inspired fun. I work hard to make you laugh.)

Well, I guess it didn't work after all. Jimmy can't read the gorilla's mind, he HAS the gorilla's mind and vice versa. Of course, jungle Jimmy may hurt himself so the professor lets Gorilla Jimmy out the cage to rescue his own body.

Now remember, Jimmy had summoned Superman via the signal watch just a few seconds earlier. Supey shows up just in time to...

WAIT KIDS!! How many things can you see wrong with this picture?
1) Superman has a green leg.
2) Superman is hitting the tree.
3) Gorilla Jimmy and Jungle Jimmy appear to be .. uh...well, uh.. DON'T LOOK KIDS!!!!
4) The professor still hasn't contacted his attorney to keep his inventing arse from being sued from here to Texarkana!

After a good laugh, everything doesn't get sorted out by Superman. Supes tries to recreate the experiment to reverse the process, but even though he tried the over 65 million button combinations, they failed. But Jimmy has to get to work. Superman puts jungle Jimmy in a huge enclosed area on Perry White's estate and Gorilla Jimmy heads for work.

Gorilla Jimmy does a ton of good deeds around Metropolis, saving kids from burning buildings, holding up falling buildings while Superman fixes them, ya know, everyday cub reporter turned Gorilla in an orange suit whilst wearing a hat kinda stuff.

Anyway, Superman finally realizes that Jimmy's ultrasonic watch contributed to mind switch and he gives the mind machine to jungle Jimmy who presses the same combination of buttons that he did earlier. Jungle Jimmy is suddenly regular Jimmy! Yay! But Gorilla Jimmy is suddenly...


Wow, Superman, while you stopped off to get your cape bleached you were letting a rampaging gorilla loose at the Daily Planet. Ya know, for an old fart, Perry White has one helluva a vertical on him. Maybe the OKC Thunder should sign him up.

Anyway, that's the story of Gorilla Jimmy Olsen. But here is one last shot of Gorilla Jimmy and Jungle Jimmy.

Hee hee, Jungle Jimmy is scratching himself. hee hee hee

Weekly Wonderous Moment in Comics #29

So Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen are assigned to try to find a 'missing link' in Africa. Of course, Kent heads out to search by himself as Superman and leaves Jimmy in charge


This panel makes me crazy with laughter. Look at the alligator just trying to munch on Superman and I love that the animals decided to team up, making them much smarter than 90% of the villains that try to takes Supes on their own.


But everything is great back at camp because Jimmy is asleep on the job. What could go wrong? Marauding Monkeys, of course!!



Well, as the story progresses, Jimmy ends up yelling himself hoarse and ends up being mistaken for the 'missing link'. Superman decides that he will teach Jimmy a lesson and using his powers frustrates every attempt of Jimmy's to try to communicate. Needless to say, the researchers that Clark and Jimmy have been staying with end up in the path of stampeding water buffalo. The researchers figure that the jungle boy can save them, they throw Jimmy in front of the buffalo. Superman slips away and...
... stops the stampede by coating their hooves with liquid rubber. Heh heh. I never figured that Clark Kent was a tree hugger.

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