Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #126

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #126 (On Sale: November 25, 1969) has a nice cover by Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson.

We begin with "Jimmy Olsen -- Traitor" by Leo Dorfman and Pete Costanza.  The first thing we learn in this story is what a complete dick Lucy Lane is to her supposed boyfriend, Jimmy Olsen. She belittles and emasculates him constantly throughout this story. Jimmy is embarrassed by movie producer Von rick when they arrive late to his latest sci-fi film and find their front-row seats have been given away. In retaliation Jimmy writes a scathing review about how the plot of the film is ridiculous as you can't go back in time to change the present and based on Jimmy's single bad review, the movie bombs (sure, it could happen....not).

Weeks later Von Rick invites Jimmy and Lucy to party for his next film and while there Jimmy touches a statue of Egyptian god Anubis to prove that it will not send him back into the past to a previous life. However, it does (yeah, really?) and Jimmy seems to be back in the days of the revolutionary war, where his causes the death of Nathan Hale, Betsy Ross and Alexander Hamilton and causes the American's to lose the war. Sure, continued next issue and if you don't know the entire plot by now, you should never read a comic again.

That is followed by our cover-story, "The Mystery of Kryptonite Plus" by Leo Dorfman, Curt Swan and George Roussos. After touching a moon rock, Jimmy contracts a rare space disease and Superman is nowhere to be found. Eventually they decide to send Jimmy to the moon in search of a cure (sure, sounds totally logical to me). We then find out that a few days earlier aliens landed on the moon and one of them has been made up to look exactly like Superman. The aliens aim a laser at Clark Kent's brain and he forgets that he is Superman (who knew it would be so easy?).

When Olsen lands on the moon the virus seems to have left his body, so he and his fellow astronaut decide to mine some moon rocks. While doing so they find Superman (the alien) laying in a field of strange rocks they dub Kryptonite Plus (just for the hell of it I guess). In order to get the weakened Superman home, Jimmy gives up his seat on the LEM (Lunar Excursion Module) to Superman and watches as they blast off to Earth. Jimmy then starts to snoop around (what else has he got to do while waiting to die) where he finds the alien spaceship, which he is able to fly to Earth.

Once back he finds Clark Kent and asks how Superman is doing. Clark reports that Superman is different, has weakened powers and is recovering very slowly. Jimmy discovers that is was all a plot by the aliens to change our sun to a red sun and take over the Earth. Clark reveals his secret identity to Jimmy and together they are able to thwart the plan. Superman then removes Jimmy's memory of his secret identity and all is as it once was.

Edited by Mort Weisinger.