Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #3

From the January–February 1955 issue of Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen comes this charming flood-rescue scene that captures the series' warm sense of adventure perfectly. Superman stands on a bridge arch alongside Jimmy, a young boy, and a woman — all of them watching a car sink into the floodwaters below while a boy with a dog reaches up toward them — and perched above it all is a photographer in an orange suit, flash camera in hand, prompting the speech bubble's wry crack: "There's that camera 'fiend' again — always on the scene of a disaster!" Cover pencils by Curt Swan with inks by Stan Kaye bring a lively, grounded energy to the chaos, and the featured story, "The Boy Millionaire!," promises the kind of imaginative fun this series delivered so reliably in the Silver Age.