{"id":3242,"date":"2021-02-11T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2021-01-11T09:34:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T17:34:56","slug":"577-supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/577-supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen\/","title":{"rendered":"577 &#8211; Superman&#8217;s Pal, Jimmy Olsen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"414\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/jimmy-watch-1.png\" alt=\"The first appearance of Jimmys watch in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #1 (July 1954)\" class=\"wp-image-3245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/jimmy-watch-1.png 414w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/jimmy-watch-1-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><figcaption>The first appearance of Jimmys watch in Superman&#8217;s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #1 (July 1954)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Another fixture of the Silver Age debuts in July 1954:  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superman%27s_Pal_Jimmy_Olsen\">Superman&#8217;s Pal Jimmy Olsen<\/a>.  This comic book appeared largely due to his popularity in the &#8220;Adventures of Superman&#8221; television series.  It features Jimmy Olsen getting into trouble with lots of appearances of Superman (only two panels of a brown-haired Lois Lane in this first issue though).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"702\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/jimmy-watch-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/jimmy-watch-2.png 702w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/jimmy-watch-2-300x269.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><figcaption>Another panel from Superman&#8217;s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #1, July 1954<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A well-established trope of the comic book is featured in Issue #1 as well:  Jimmy Olsen&#8217;s signal watch, in which he can send an ultra-sonic distress call to Superman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I never was a fan of the comic book or the character, really &#8211; too gimmicky and goofy for me &#8211; but I am excited about the upcoming end of the &#8220;Early Silver&#8221; age!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another fixture of the Silver Age debuts in July 1954: Superman&#8217;s Pal Jimmy Olsen. This comic book appeared largely due to his popularity in the &#8220;Adventures of Superman&#8221; television series. It features Jimmy Olsen getting into trouble with lots of appearances of Superman (only two panels of a brown-haired Lois Lane in this first issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[547,14,486,204,43],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-547","tag-dc","tag-early-silver","tag-jimmy-olsen","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242","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=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3248,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions\/3248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}