Tom's week with Jimmy Olson number four or I'm just going to crash in the flying newsroom tonight.

Hi, everybody. Welcome back. I still have power and internet. A lot of big storms in the Chicago area, but I still got everything.

So I'm going to do this episode. The story I were talking about today is the radioactive boy.

Originally printed in Superman's pal, Jimmy Olson, number 17, written by Otto Binder, pencil by Kurtzwan, inked by Ray Burnley, edited by Mort Wisinger.

And I know what you're thinking.

Radioactive boy.

So Jimmy Olson's going to get irradiated and get superpowers, maybe grow an extra

head, and then the powers are going to go away and everything's going to be fine. No, there's a twist

to this, and it's a little darker. It's a little darker of a story. We begin with Jimmy Olson

filing away a story in a safe. Now, why is he putting in a safe? Because it's evidence he dug up

that will put Barney Bolton in his gang away for dozens of crimes. Jimmy Olson, Cub reporter, is constantly throwing people in jail. He's doing a great job. But he's got to lock this stuff up until the case begins tomorrow where they can use the evidence. Why this isn't being, you know, locked up in a police station? Don't know. Daily Planet, probably a pretty secure place. Jimmy Olson's done with that. What's the next story he's going to work on? Well, Perry White assigns him to go to the local atomic power plant where they're giving tours for him to write a story about it, which Jimmy Olson's extremely excited about. We cut to the power plant where we see a scientist leading group of people along

explaining that the giant brick sculpture they're walking next to is an atomic pile,

which shields them from the deadly radiation inside.

At this point, a man bumps into Jimmy Olson.

Jimmy hits the atomic pile pretty hard.

Now, keep in mind, this is just a brick wall. Jimmy inexplicably freaks out thinking, maybe, saying out loud, maybe I could have been contaminated by touching the atomic pile, which the guy next room says that there's very little chance of that, you know, unless, of course, there's a crack in it, then yeah, totally, you would be irradiated. Jimmy's pretty calm. He's walking back to the office, ready to file a story. He comes across something you see all the time, greenhouse samples. Here, take a free plant, which is what the man says, and is Jimmy's looking over all the flowers, picks one up, all of a sudden, it just withers and dies. In fact, all the plants on the cart just wither and die.

Jimmy starts wondering what's going on.

What's wrong with him?

He's walking along.

He brushes up against a bush, and all of a sudden, the bush is glowing.

In fact, he looks back, and his footprints are glowing on the ground.

He looks in a nearby furniture store window, and in his reflection, he sees that his

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