Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #22: The KG Murray edition

 KG Murray's Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen was published c.January 1957:

The cover originally appeared on Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #16, October-November 1956, with slight alterations:

The main features:

The Boy of Steel, originally published in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #16, October-November 1956

The Secrets of the Planeteers!, originally published in Action Comics #217, June 1956

The Dive-In Theatre, Adventure Comics #186, March 1953

This issue also contains three gag filler features. The first of the two Jerry the Jitterbug features was previously published in World's Finest Comics #85, November-December 1956; the second was originally published in Adventure Comics #155, August 1950, then reprinted in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #13, June 1956 and Superboy #87, March 1961. The third feature is Honey in Hollywood, originally published in The Adventures of Alan Ladd #5, June-July 1950 and reprinted in World's Finest Comics #76, May-June 1955. It is expanded to a full-page feature in the KG Murray edition.

The original title for The Dive-In Theatre is The Dive-In Theater, altered in favour of the English spelling of Theatre.

Love 1977

 The cover image on KG Murray's Love 1977 is painted by Tom Sutton and  originally appeared on Charlton's I Love You #118: 

The contents:

Cure For Heartbreak, originally published in I Love You #118, June 1976

I Lived in a World of Make-Believe, originally published in Valentine #27, April 1974

Tears for a Lost Love, originally published in Just Married #110, April 1976

The Game of Love 

A Quiet Place for Kissing, originally published in My Only Love #4, January 1976

The New Girl, originally published in 

One Tiny Flaw, originally published in My Only Love #7, August 1976

Substitute Love, originally published in My Only Love #6, June 1976

In a Spin Over DJ Danny!, originally published in Valentine #25, May 1974

Only the Bridesmaid, originally published in Just Married #109, January 1976

Love is Like This...,  

Animals I Have Known, originally published in Teen Confessions #95, July 1976

Having a Ball, originally published in I Love You #119, August 1976

For the Sake Of Revenge

Notes:

1. There are a few stories titled The Game of Love on the GCD site. There is also an Australian issue titled The Game of Love.

2. One Tiny Flaw was subsequently recycled in Romance Time.

3. Substitute Love was subsequently recycled in Secret Romances #35.

4. The GCD entries for the two stories from Valentine say they are 3 pages long. The stories in this issue are complete at 6 pages.

Dating Federal Comics' Batman team up series

Federal Comics' Batman and... is a messy series to index due to confusion and errors on the part of the Federal editors but I think I've sorted it out. Let's begin by laying out the issues concerned in chronological published order:

Batman and Metamorpho The Element Man #1, December 1982 (Murray Comics/Black logo)

Batman and The Catwoman #2, March 1983 (Murray Comics/Red logo)

Batman and the Creeper #3, April 1983 (Federal Comics/Murray the Cat logo)

Batman and Adam Strange #4, July 1983 (Federal Comics/Red and Blue logo)

Batman and Hawkman #5, December 1983 (Federal Comics/Red and Blue logo)

Batman and the Flash #6, February 1984 (Federal Comics/Black logo)

Batman and The Outsiders #7, April 1984 (Australian DC Edition)

Batman and The Outsiders #8, June 1984 (Australian DC Edition/Federal Comics)

Batman and Batman Album #NN, June 1984 (Australian DC Edition/Federal Comics)

Batman and Sgt. Rock #NN, July 1984 (Australian DC Edition/Federal Comics)

Batman and The Outsiders #9, September 1984 (Australian DC Edition/Federal Comics)

Batman and Nemesis #NN, September 1984 (Australian DC Edition/Federal Comics)

Batman and The Outsiders #10, October 1984 (Australian DC Edition/Federal Comics)

Notes:

1. Batman and... is a team up series based on material originally appearing in the DC series The Brave and the Bold. The Murray and Federal issues used the Batman team up story as the headline cover feature, and the rest of the issues would feature stories with the supporting character (although some issues included other Batman stories too).

2. This series is confusing because the numbering of the series transitions from one title to another - from Batman and... #6 to Batman and The Outsiders #7. 

3. Confusing things further is the three unnumbered Batman and ... issues. Unmoored from their series numbering, collectors have understandably deemed them to have been published before Batman and the Outsiders #7.

4. The problem begins with the publication of Batman and The Outsiders #7. This edition maintains the Collector's Item! First Issue! banners, and really should have been the first issue in a new Federal Comics series. If this had been done the above lineup would have seen the three unnumbered issues numbered as Batman and Batman Album #7, Batman and Sgt. Rock #8 and Batman and Nemesis #9.  

5. Federal's edition of The Brave and The Bold #200, the final issue in the series, also appears to have messed things up unnecesarily. Awkwardly cover-titled titled Album starring Batman and Batman (there is no indicia title, but it likely would have been Batman and Batman), it seems to have been issued without clarity as to its status. They may have intended this as a follow-up to Murray's Batman Album #51, or a companion issue to DC Comics Presents Superman and the Golden Age Superman, published a month earlier in May 1984. Regardless of their intentions, it's clearly the first of the three unnumbered Batman and... issues , and to my mind belongs to this series, even if it's as an auxiliary 'Annual'. 

6. Batman vs. The Incredible Hulk Album can also be considered part of this mix, similarly to Album starring Batman and Batman. This issue was published January 1984, between Batman and... #5 and #6. It's understandable why this was issued as an unnumbered issue, given the main source material, and it operates like a related Annual to the mother series. However, it does end with a reprint from The Brave and the Bold #196, from the same period as the other Batman and... issues.

7. Batman and The Outsiders #11 onwards appears to be published mostly regularly at two month intervals.

The various Federal Comics logos referenced above accord datewise with my schema sampled via the Superman series in this period.