KIRBY 'KOCK-UPS' - PART ONE: "WHERE DID THE TIME GO?"

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Having dug out my JIMMY OLSEN back issues recently

for the purpose of illustrating a previous post, I decided to re-read

the entire 15 issue run and re-acquaint myself with the awesome ad-

ventures first published in the early 1970s.  I reached for my handy

two volume collected editions from a few years ago (rather than

risk damaging the original comics), which every true JACK

KIRBY fan should have on their bookshelves.

Here's the final page of Jimmy's and the Legion's adventure which
took place between the previous page shown and this one

Look at the first page above. See SUPERMAN zooming

towards that materializing BOOM TUBE?  In between scene-

switching to what was simultaneously happening to his best pal

Jimmy and The NEWSBOY LEGION at LOCH TREVOR over

in Scotland in this ish, a whole ten days had elapsed by the time

JO's adventure was over in the next, and the scene switched

back again to show Supes' encounter with whoever was

arriving on Earth from parts unknown.

As you can see from Tommy's speech balloon, ten days are supposed
to have elapsed between this issue and the previous one...

There's no way Superman took ten days flying through the

secret tunnels under The COSMIC CAROUSEL nightclub 'til

meeting MAGMAR, so just goes to show that even the fabulous

Jack Kirby sometimes let his eye off the ball when relating his

FOURTH WORLD epic.  One thing puzzles me 'though -

why did it take me so long to spot this Kirby kock-up?

...yet here's Supes still heading towards that boom tube -
just where we left him in the previous issue

  

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