SUPERMAN’S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #146

Cover shows moderate wear typical of the era: mild corner softness at top corners, light surface scuffing across the orange background, and a visible spine crease/stress line running vertically near the top edge. The book is housed in a plastic sleeve which obscures fine detail and possible edge chipping. No major tears, color breaks, or writing are visible on the front cover; back cover and interior pages were not assessed.

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #146 arrives near the tail end of Jack Kirby's celebrated Bronze Age tenure on the title, a run that grafted his Fourth World cosmology and boundary-pushing visual style onto DC's long-running Superman spin-off. By this issue Kirby had reshaped the book around Project Cadmus, the Guardian, and the Newsboy Legion, delivering the same blend of pulp science fiction and social commentary that defined his New Gods material, even as the series retained its original Jimmy Olsen branding and supporting cast. The issue is emblematic of Kirby's late-run output rather than a discrete milestone, with no first appearance, death, or origin story attached to it specifically.

The certified population is substantial, with 69 Universal copies recorded across a spread of grades, and the fair-market curve shows the typical Bronze Age shape: modest, closely bunched values through the 8.5 to 9.4 range before a sharp premium emerges at 9.6 and an outsized jump to the sole recorded 9.8 sale. That top-grade price reflects genuine scarcity at the highest tier rather than storyline demand, since only eight 9.8 copies exist on census against a much larger population in the 9.0-9.4 range. Demand is driven almost entirely by ongoing collector interest in Kirby's DC period and by set-builders assembling the full Jimmy Olsen Fourth World run rather than by any single dramatic story beat in this specific issue.

This is a book that trades as a Kirby-run supporting title: affordable in raw and mid grades, where it functions as an accessible entry point for readers assembling the run, but commanding a real premium once certified at the top of the census. Collectors chasing a complete high-grade Kirby Jimmy Olsen set will pay disproportionately more for a 9.8 than the grade curve beneath it would suggest, while casual buyers and reading-copy collectors will find raw examples inexpensive and plentiful.