Episode #197: Superman Family Comic Book Cover Dated August 1956: Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #14!

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen 14, August 1956!

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SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN 14, August 1956, was published around June7, 1956. It contained 32 pages for the cover price of a dime. The editor was Mort Weisinger, and the cover was pencilled by Curt Swan and inked by Ray Burnley, the art team for all three stories in this issue. MIKE'S AMAZING WORLD OF DC COMICS website lists Otto Binder as the writer of the first and third stories of this issue, but leaves the author of the second story as unknown. THE GRAND COMIC BOOK DATABASE  lists Otto Binder as the writer of the second story as well.

- THE FEATS OF SUPER CHIEF (8 pgs.)

- THE MEEK JIMMY OLSEN (6 pgs.)

- THE BOY SUPERMAN (8 pgs.)

Elsewhere in DC Comics, 35 titles carried the August or August/September 1956 cover date.

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