Perry White's long career in the papers deserves a big celebration, and who better to help than his favorite colleague? No, not Lois Lane. No, not Clark Kent...or that super-guy they all write about. It's Jimmy Olsen!
In a new 48-page one-shot comic, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen's Boss Perry White #1 (on sale June 21 with a Final Order Cutoff date of May 22), revisit the Daily Planet and read a new 7-page short story from the Eisner Award-winning Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen team of Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber, then see Perry White's career throughout the years with reprinted stories by Elliot S. Maggin and Curt Swan, Neil Kleid a more
Every so often, the comic world gives me a complete treat, a wonderful reminder of why I love the medium. Read Full Review
Overall, this is a solid one-shot. I wish there was more original content, but there's no real weak links here. Read Full Review
Any reader who loved the pages of Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen or appreciates Superman's inspirational charms is bound to adore this lovingly crafted anthology focused on Metropolis's greatest newspaperman. Read Full Review
I was just going to read the new story by Fraction and Lieber, but I ended up reading the whole thing. Lucky for me too, because the new story is one of the weaker elements of this anthology. I actually liked the two 70s reprint stories the most. They were fun, charming and nostalgic. Based on the small selection here, it seems as though modern comics tend to make Perry more serious and respectable as a newspaperman, and that creates a very different sort of tone for the character, and maybe impedes just what types of stories can be told with him. But that's literally based on just this collection, I have not read any Pre-Crisis Superman aside from the two stories here.
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