{"id":936,"date":"2006-10-20T03:43:46","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T03:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/936"},"modified":"2006-10-20T03:43:46","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T03:43:46","slug":"supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-134-1970-the-mountain-of-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/936","title":{"rendered":"Superman&#8217;s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #134 [1970] &#8211; The Mountain of Judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kirby&#8217;s second issue of JIMMY OLSEN is mostly one wild ride, with Jimmy and the Newsboy Legion being taken in their Whiz Wagon to &#8220;Habitat&#8221;, the tree city that houses the drop-out motorcycle gang the &#8220;Outsiders&#8221;, and then leading them on the &#8220;Zoomway&#8221; to find the &#8220;Mountain of Judgment&#8221; of the mysterious &#8220;Hairies&#8221;.  Yeah, really.  Not your dad&#8217;s Jimmy Olsen&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image935\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/10\/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen1341970.jpg\" alt=\"SupermansPalJimmyOlsen1341970.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Mountain turns out to be a converted missile-carrier used to scare away intruders, and it turns out that hidden on the Whiz Wagon is a bomb designed to blow up the Hairies and their ultra-advanced scientific society.<\/p>\n<p>The end of the issue has Morgan Edge on a video phone with his mysterious master, Darkseid, marking the villain&#8217;s first published appearance (although job codes and comments in interviews with people there make it clear that Kirby had actually already drawn a few full stories with Darkseid before this, though they were released later).<\/p>\n<p>Kirby also includes three collages in one two-page segment.  As usual the reproduction doesn&#8217;t do them justice, you can see better copies of a part of two of these on the cover of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twomorrows.com\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=233\">THE JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #31<\/a>.  They also look a bit clearer in the recent collection of these issues.<\/p>\n<p>Colletta inks the 22-page story, with Al Plastino doing some of the &#8220;corrections&#8221;.  This issue also includes a text page by Kirby, &#8220;The Whiz Wagons are Coming&#8221;, about the futuristic car he created, and also includes a small self-portrait by Kirby, and a full page ad for the upcoming Kirby first issues, with slightly different versions of the NEW GODS #1 and FOREVER PEOPLE #1 covers.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1970<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirby&#8217;s second issue of JIMMY OLSEN is mostly one wild ride, with Jimmy and the Newsboy Legion being taken in their Whiz Wagon to &#8220;Habitat&#8221;, the tree city that houses the drop-out motorcycle gang the &#8220;Outsiders&#8221;, and then leading them on the &#8220;Zoomway&#8221; to find the &#8220;Mountain of Judgment&#8221; of the mysterious &#8220;Hairies&#8221;. Yeah, really. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-superhero"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}