SUPERMAN’S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #102

Cover shows a visible vertical crease/spine roll along the left edge and slight rubbing at the top and bottom edges of the spine. Corners appear moderately sharp with only minor wear, and color is bright with no notable fading. There is a small stress line near the mid-spine area; the book is in a protective sleeve which limits full assessment. Interior and back cover were not assessed.

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #102 arrived in mid-1967 as part of DC's long-running spin-off title built around Superman's cub-reporter sidekick, a series that spent the Silver Age mining gimmick transformations, alien encounters, and Kryptonian mythology for lighter, often comedic adventure stories. Like most issues in the run, #102 is a standard installment rather than a foundational or landmark chapter: it carries no first appearance, origin story, or death of note, and its creative contributors are consistent with the workmanlike DC house style of the period rather than a singular, widely cited artistic statement. Its interest lies chiefly in its place within a complete run of a title that remains a steady presence in Superman-family collections.

Market data reflects a typical mid-tier Silver Age DC book: certified sales are sparse and concentrated in the mid-to-high grades, with pricing climbing sharply only at the very top of the condition curve. A single 9.8 sale near the $2,000 mark anchors the high end, while 9.4 and 9.6 copies have traded in the low hundreds to just above $1,000, and copies in the 8.0-9.0 range settle into double digits. Below that, verified sales essentially disappear, indicating that lower-grade copies see little independent transaction activity and trade mostly as reading or filler copies within larger lots.

This is a book collected primarily by Superman-family and Jimmy Olsen completists building out full Silver Age runs, rather than by keys-focused buyers. Demand is condition-driven and concentrates heavily at the top of the census, where the scarcity of true Near Mint-Mint survivors creates outsized premiums; mid- and low-grade copies remain affordable and are generally acquired as run-fillers rather than standalone investment pieces. Expect the book to trade steadily but modestly outside of pristine graded examples.