{"id":1271,"date":"2019-06-27T08:33:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T15:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2019-02-27T21:54:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T05:54:58","slug":"163-first-jimmy-olsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/163-first-jimmy-olsen\/","title":{"rendered":"163 &#8211; First Jimmy Olsen?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"698\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/first-jimmy-olsen.png\" alt=\"A panel from Action Comics #38, May 1941\" class=\"wp-image-1272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/first-jimmy-olsen.png 698w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/first-jimmy-olsen-300x268.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Action Comics #38, May 1941<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Continuing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1266\">my streak<\/a> of hard-hitting investigative comic book journalism, is the elevator boy in Action Comics #38 (May 1941) the first true appearance of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jimmy_Olsen\">Jimmy Olsen<\/a>?  We have red hair, bowtie and green coat!  At this point in history, Jimmy Olsen existed as a character in the Superman radio show for about a year and is named in a comic book appearance later in 1941.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I disagree with the idea that the nameless office boy that appears in Action Comics #6 (October 1938) is Jimmy Olsen since apart from a bowtie, he looks nothing like him.  Different hair color, yo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"235\" height=\"325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/not-jimmy-olson.jpg\" alt=\"A panel from Action Comics #6, October 1938\" class=\"wp-image-1273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/not-jimmy-olson.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/not-jimmy-olson-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Action Comics #6, October 1938<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing my streak of hard-hitting investigative comic book journalism, is the elevator boy in Action Comics #38 (May 1941) the first true appearance of Jimmy Olsen? We have red hair, bowtie and green coat! At this point in history, Jimmy Olsen existed as a character in the Superman radio show for about a year and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[191,14,32,204,147,43],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-191","tag-dc","tag-firsts","tag-jimmy-olsen","tag-sidekick","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}