Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #139 (1971) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Guardian Fights Again!	cover	1	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Vince Colletta, Murphy Anderson; letters: Gaspar Saladino	The Guardian, Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen, Superman
1	A Blockbuster Issue!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Neal Adams; inks: Neal Adams	Superman [Clark Kent]
2	The Guardian Fights Again!!!	comic story	22	script: Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Vince Colletta, Murphy Anderson; letters: John Costanza	Big Words, Laura Conway, Morgan Edge, Flippa Dippa, Gabby, The Guardian, Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen, Big Words, Scrapper, Superman, Tommy, Tommy
6	-	letters page	1	script: E. Nelson Bridwell; pencils: Curt Swan; inks: George Klein	Jimmy Olsen
8	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: George Ziel; inks: George Ziel; colors: George Ziel
13	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Jack Kirby

Plus 9.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 10 sequences, as published.

Edition	How to tell
British	price 0.05 GBP

Collection	Year
Jimmy Olsen: Adventures by Jack Kirby #1 ISBN 1-56389-984-1	2003	On eBay ›
Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus #1 ISBN 9781401213442	2007	On eBay ›
Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus #1 ISBN 978-1-4012-3241-2	2011	On eBay ›
The Fourth World Omnibus by Jack Kirby #[nn] ISBN 978-1-4012-7475-7	2018	On eBay ›
Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen by Jack Kirby #[nn] ISBN 978-1-4012-8885-3	2019	On eBay ›

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