One of my favorite parts at the end of issue 143 is Jimmy Olsen wakes up and follows the glow of light into the next room, where where Superman in an effort to push the monster-race of planet Transilvane in a new direction, changes out the horror movies projecting onto the planet's skies with another genre, where Superman and Jimmy, along with the inhabitants of Transilvane, sit down at the end of the story to watch the movie
Oklahoma !
Those Kirby issues remain, by far,
the best 15 issues of the JIMMY OLSEN series. The covers alone presenting some rare one-time collaborarions.
https://www.rkmbs.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=183012#Post183012I also love the cover of 142, that gives a side-by-side contrast of the styles of Jack Kirby and Neal Adams in a single cover image. The Superman figure was erased from Kirby's pencils and completely re-drawn by Adams. The rest is Kirby. You can see Kirby's original cover pencils without the alterations in the latest collected trade of Kirby's complete JIMMY OLSEN run, Just released in April 2019.
Original JIMMY OLSEN 133-148 comics:
https://viewcomiconline.com/supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-v1-133/Or collected 2019 trade:
https://viewcomiconline.com/supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-by-jack-kirby-tpb-part-1/I was looking at these Kirby and Adams JIMMY OLSEN covers again, and thought I'd add new links.
A wide range of one-time collaborations,
the Kirby/Colletta covers (133, 139),
the Adams covers (134, 135, 136, and 148),
the Kirby/Adams collaborations (137, 138, 141, 142 , 144),
the Kirby/Anderson cover (145),
the Kirby/Royer covers (143, 146),
and the very different Anderson/Adams cover (147).
A tremendous range of collaborations, over just 15 issues, by some of the greatest talents ever to work in comics.
Plus at least 6 rejected and unused covers, in addition to these. Only some of which have appeared in the 2004, 2005 and 2019 collected trades of the Kirby JIMMY OLSEN series. Others I've only seen in the JACK KIRBY MASTERWORKS book, across scattered issues of JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR series, or scans online. And with so many unused covers that have surfaced, there's probably more unused covers I still haven't seen.
It would actually make a great portfolio by DC or Two Morrows, to collect them all together, in an original art-size 11" X 17" portfolio of loose individual pages.