Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #127

Something has clearly gone wrong between Superman and his best pal — the cover by Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson drops us into a dingy, dilapidated room where a stern Superman leans over a battered table, pointing a finger at a sheepish Jimmy Olsen and declaring this rat-trap his new home, while broken windows, a leaking roof, and scattered debris set a perfectly grim scene. The teaser "Can You Guess Why Jimmy Has to Live in a Slum?" ties right into the story title "The Secret Slumlord of Metropolis!", promising a tale that puts Jimmy squarely in Metropolis's roughest neighborhood for reasons only the issue will reveal. It's a wonderfully off-kilter 1970 DC premise — Superman as unlikely villain of Jimmy's living situation — that makes this one hard to put back on the shelf.