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Publication Date: June 2008

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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics

On Sale Date: 04/02/2008

Volume:

Pages: 164

ISBN: 9781401216801

UPC/EAN: 978140121680151499

Price: $16.99 CAD
$14.99 USD

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 12 (5 stories, 1 cover)

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Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: cardstock cover; glossy interior

Binding: softcover

Publishing Format: collected edition

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8 Content Items from other Issues reprinted as/in this Issue:

Superman #665 [Direct Sales] published September 2007 was The Secret Origin of Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen! [Illustration on Cover, Front]

Action Comics #852 [Direct Sales] published September 2007 was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]

Superman #665 [Direct Sales] published September 2007 was The Superman Family: Jimmy [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Action Comics #852 [Direct Sales] published September 2007 was 3-2-1 Action! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Action Comics #853 [Direct Sales] published October 2007 was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]

Action Comics #854 [Direct Sales] published October 2007 was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]

Action Comics #854 [Direct Sales] published October 2007 was 3-2-1 Action! Part 3 Pal [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Action Comics #853 [Direct Sales] published October 2007 was 3-2-1 Action! Part 2 The Signal [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Content Items (12 total)

3-2-1 Action!

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman; Jimmy Olsen

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Pages: 1

Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Character(s): Superman; Jimmy Olsen

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Pages: 2

[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Jimmy Olsen; Lois Lane

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Pages: 1

Jimmy

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El] (flashback); Jimmy Olsen (flashback); Lois Lane (flashback); Perry White (flashback); The 10 (predecessor to The 100) (intro, flashback); Jonathan Kent (flashback); Martha Kent (flashback); Barry Giardelli (flashback); Mr. Olsen (photo); Dr. Sarah Olsen (Jimmy's mother) (photo); Tess Haslip (flashback, dies); Monte McGraw (flashback); Monte's gang [including Ronson; Henny; Burford] (flashback); Rannian Xuri-cannons

Synopsis: Set "years ago", young Jimmy Olsen is selling extra newspapers on the street. The "10" is operating in Metropolis, and have killed Jimmy's guardian, his neighbor Tess Haslip. She had accounting books that they want. The 10 is after Jimmy thinking he may know where the books are, so he's been living in the Planet's basement to hide. They find him and kidnap him. Superman tracks them, but they trap him. Jimmy frees him, and they clean up the gang. Jimmy is hired as a copy boy at the Planet, and becomes Superman's pal.

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Pages: 22

Notes: "Fort Bridwell" is an homage to former Superman writer/editor E. Nelson Bridwell. "Kurtiswana" is an homage to former Superman penciller Curt Swan.

[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman; Jimmy Olsen

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Pages: 1

3-2-1 Action! Part 1 Choices

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen

Character(s): Superman; Jimmy Olsen; Lois Lane; Killer Croc (flashback, cameo); Perry White (cameo); Kryptonite Man [Dr. K. Russell Abernathy]; Dalton Sanders; Jenet Klyburn (cameo); Rance Howard (cameo); David Igawa (cameo); Clan MacHinery AKA The Rude Mechanicals (flashback)

Synopsis: Jimmy remembers the origins of his signal watch.

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Pages: 23

[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman; Kryptonite Man [Dr. K. Russell Abernathy]; Jimmy Olsen

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Pages: 1

3-2-1 Action! Part 2 The Signal

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen

Character(s): Superman; Jimmy Olsen; Kryptonite Man [Dr. K. Russell Abernathy]; K-Monkey; Exomorphic Man (cameo); Robin [Tim Drake] (cameo); Wonder Woman (cameo); Lois Lane; Gina (cameo); Gordan (cameo); Perry White (cameo); Dr. Cyber (cameo); Atomic Skull (cameo); Tobias Whale (cameo); Calculator (cameo); Krypto (cameo); The Ünternet (intro)

Synopsis: The lab monkey from the tests that created the Kryptonite Man is on the loose, and finds the Kryptonite Man, helping him escape. Jimmy has become a hero, Mr. Action, and debates what to do next. Kryptonite Man takes over Rydertech's labs. Jimmy finds out about it, and as Mr. Action attacks, but is defeated. Superman tracks them down, but is overcome also. As he is tied up in the back, Jimmy doesn't know that Superman's there, and constructs another hypersonic signal device. The signal is answered by Krypto.

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Pages: 22

Notes: The monkey (which appears to be really an ape) is unnamed, but in a Q&A session on Superman Homepage Kurt Busiek says that he calls him K-Monkey.

[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman; K-Monkey; Jimmy Olsen

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Pages: 1

3-2-1 Action! Part 3 Pal

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen

Character(s): Superman; Jimmy Olsen; Kryptonite Man [Dr. K. Russell Abernathy]; Krypto; K-Monkey; Jenet Klyburn (cameo); Murphy (cameo); Gina (cameo)

Synopsis: Jimmy and Krypto battle the kryptonite monkey.

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Pages: 22

Notes: The monkey (which appears to be really an ape) is unnamed, but in a Q&A session on Superman Homepage Kurt Busiek says that he calls him K-Monkey.

[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen

Character(s): Superman; Jimmy Olsen; Guardian; Dubbilex

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Pages: 1

The American Evolution

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen

Character(s): Bernie Sobel; Lois Lane; Perry White; Superman [Clark Kent]; Jimmy Olsen; Simyan; Mokkari; Guardian [Jim Harper] (clone, origin); Dubbilex; Darkseid; Morgan Edge; Octopod

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Pages: 56