SUPERMAN’S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #110

Cover shows notable wear including multiple spine stress lines and small ticks along the spine edge, a vertical crease running through the upper logo area, and soft/rounded corners. There is visible surface wear and slight discoloration at the bottom edge, along with a small crease near the lower right. The book is in a protective sleeve which obscures fine texture detail; interior and back cover were not assessed.

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #110 arrived in April 1968 during the closing stretch of editor Mort Weisinger's long stewardship of the title, before Jack Kirby's celebrated run began reshaping the book in 1970. Like most issues from this period, it delivers the light science-fiction and transformation-driven plotting that defined the series' house style, with Superman appearing as Jimmy's benefactor and frequent rescuer rather than the story's central figure. The issue carries no recognized first appearance, origin, or landmark creative milestone, and its cover has not entered the pantheon of covers regularly cited by price guides as a genre classic.

Market data reflects a typical mid-tier Silver Age back issue: raw and lower-certified copies trade in a narrow, modest band, with FMV essentially flat across the 6.5 to 8.0 range before a sharp escalation begins at 9.2 and above. That steep climb culminates in a pronounced premium at the 9.8 tier, where a small handful of recorded sales command prices far out of proportion to the rest of the grade curve — a pattern common to Silver Age comics where high-grade survivors are scarce relative to even modest collector demand. The recent sales clustering tightly around the current FMV suggests the top-grade price point is stable rather than a single outlier result.

This is a book collected primarily as part of a complete Jimmy Olsen or broader Superman-family run rather than sought individually. Raw copies in low and mid grades serve completionist and reading-copy buyers at low cost, while the 9.8 tier draws registry-focused collectors competing for one of a very limited number of top-graded survivors. Expect ordinary demand and pricing through most grade tiers, with value concentrated sharply at the census summit.