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Dick Sprang's gorgeous "All For One, One For All", from Batman 32, Dec 1945/January 1946. Sprang (b. July 28, 1915) inked himself on this job, and the results are spectacular. It's been reprinted, but it's never looked as good as it did in '45. Script is uncredited, letters by Ira Schnapp. © DC Comics  

Jimmy Olsen's Supercyclopedia!

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Today the fine folks at DC announced Jimmy Olsen's Supercyclopedia will be out April Fools' Day 2025.  It's by Gabe Soria and me- I met Gabe in 2019 (the very weekend he pitched the idea to what was then DC Ink!'s Michele Wells) at a con in New Orleans. Gabe's a NOLA resident, a fellow Batman '66 veteran, and works at one of the greatest record stores I've ever shopped at. He'd been nurturing the idea for years, and I happened to be in the right place at the right time to eventually draw it. Jimmy was greenlit, and our old '66 editor Jim Chadwick tapped me to draw it. I had other stuff to clear out of the way, and last spring we finally got started- after Jim had passed the book to Kristy Quinn, my editor on Bombshells United and Teen Titans Go! Kristy's the best, Jim's retired and living abroad, everyone's happy :) Jimmy Olsen's Supercyclopedia finds Jimmy making a dumb mistake, and rather than getting his pal Superman to fix things ...