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 arrived during Jack Kirby's celebrated tenure on the title, a stretch that saw the King bring his Fourth World sensibilities—wild machinery, sprawling splash pages, and larger-than-life concepts—into a legacy DC humor-adventure book. Kirby wrote, drew, and edited the series from #133 through #148 (with occasional fill-ins), reworking Jimmy Olsen, the Newsboy Legion, and the Guardian into vehicles for his cosmic mythology while planting seeds that would connect to New Gods, Mister Miracle, and Forever People. Issue #146 is a middle chapter in that run, valued by Kirby completists and Fourth World collectors for its artwork and its place in the larger tapestry rather than for any singular first appearance.

Market data reflects a book with a thin but real collector base: certified population sits at 69 Universal copies across a wide grade spread, with only a handful of sales recorded at any grade. Fair market value climbs steeply at the top of the curve—from the mid-double-digits at 8.5 and 9.0 up to $600 at the sole recorded 9.8—illustrating how scarce true high-grade Bronze Age copies are relative to demand from Kirby and Fourth World specialists. Lower and mid-grade raw copies trade quietly, priced more by page count and Kirby's name than by any spike in speculative interest, since the issue carries no widely recognized first appearance or death.

This is a book for Kirby-run completists, Fourth World crossover collectors, and dealers building out full Jimmy Olsen sets rather than speculative buyers chasing a single key moment. Raw copies in worn condition move steadily and cheaply as reading or collection-filler copies; mid-grade raw copies see modest demand from readers assembling the Kirby stretch affordably. The real value concentration is at the top of the certified population, where 9.6 and especially 9.8 copies command outsized premiums due to genuine scarcity on census, making high-grade examples the primary vehicle for meaningful appreciation.