*From* ***Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen***.

By Zack Quaintance — DC Comics has announced Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen's Boss Perry White, a new one-shot comic with a 7-page story by Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber, the team behind the all-time great series, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen. The book — due out June 21 — also features three reprint stories, totaling 48 pages with a price tag of $4.99. Nathan Fairbairn will be coloring Lieber, and the book will be lettered by Clayton Cowles.

This is all a very nice surprise. The book wasn’t in DC Comics’ June 2022 solicitations, and there really was no indication that Fraction and Lieber would re-team after Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen (an all-time great comic, if you ask me.) ended in July of 2020. And while I’m still absolutely dying for a nice expanded hardcover version of this series, new work focused on Superman’s pal Jimmy Olsen’s boss Perry White is a wonderful surprise. Here’s hoping this is a precursor for a full series, be it six or 12 issues.

You can find more info about this one-shot direct from DC Comics’ announcement below, along with the (very funny) cover for the book…enjoy!

Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen’s Boss Perry White

Here’s the full teaser text from DC’s announcement:

Perry White’s long career in the papers deserves a big celebration, and who better to help than his favorite colleague? No, not Lois Lane. No, not Clark Kent…or that super-guy they all write about. It’s Jimmy Olsen! Yes, the same Pulitzer Prize-winning Jimmy Olsen who’s sometimes a giant turtle! Just don’t call him Jimberly—that’s a reference only Batman’s supposed to know about!
Are we burying the lede? Yes. Yes we are. See, this isn’t a Jimmy Olsen announcement. We know you love the guy, and the Jimmy Olsen Fan Club is buzzing with activity now that we’ve got your attention, but this press release isn’t an announcement of a new Jimmy Olsen comic, or a Clark Kent comic, or a Lois Lane comic, or even a Steve Lombard comic (deep cut, but worth it). This release is to announce a Perry White comic! As Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Planet, he’s worth the headlines!! We just added in hyperbole and name-checked Batman (and Superman, but mostly Batman) for the SEO.

The reprinted stories in this one are from a veritable Mount Rushmore of great Superman storytellings, with a full list that includes Elliot S. Maggin and Curt Swan, Neil Kleid and Dean Haspiel, and Brian Michael Bendis and Ivan Reis.

*More from* ***Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen,*** *just because.*

Finally, the announcement also included this enticing bit: “Are Fraction, Lieber, Fairbairn and Cowles back for good? Or for bad? Or just for the laughs?” Hmm, it’s far far from being an acknowledgement of anything to come, but hey, it’s not nothing! Would the good and hardworking folks at DC publicity tease us like this if there wasn’t something else on the way? I’m going to choose no, mostly because I thought Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen was a masterpiece, a hilarious romp about supporting cast superhero characters loaded with nods to continuity and clever gags.

Fingers crossed. But for now, check out (the also hilarious) cover for the one-shot below…

*Cover artwork by Steve Lieber and Nathan Fairbairn.*

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Zack Quaintance is a tech reporter by day and freelance writer by night/weekend. He has written about comics for The Beat and NPR Books, among others. He Tweets compulsively about storytelling and comics as Comics Bookcase.