Superman Gets Haunted | Jimmy Olsen Edition

Superman and ghost collide or do they? The Adventures Of Superman has Jimmy Olsen face spectres, poltergeists and his over dependence on a certain Clark Kent. Which plots are based off of DC Comics? What does Batman have to do with it? Get ready for classic adaptation and comic book madness here on Casually Comics!
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[@adivorcee2357]

I love how Clark is just as bad a boyfriend to Jimmy as he is Lois

[@lolaseiss]

Superdickery swings both ways it seems 😏

[@dbzcupcake]

@@lolaseiss Pink Kryptonite changes how you sway not how you treat your lovers💗 In Clark's case the answer is poorly 🤣

[@altalia07]

@@dbzcupcake😆

[@jakelee7083]

Dude: "Where's the back entrance?" Jimmy: "In the back." Why did I crack up so much over this?

[@johnbockelie3899]

Jimmy" I ain't 'fraid of no ghost !!".

[@pedrovallefin8406]

The face the dude makes after hearing it is beatiful. If someone told me that the next scene was him beating the crap out of Jimmy i would 100% believe it. Hell, i would believe its how the episode ends.

[@michaelkopala3738]

Well, when you're right, you're right.

[@blainecrowley1134]

I prefer the Robin version, but just because “overconfident villains pick a fight with someone secretly way out of their league” is one of my favorite tropes

[@joeker5208]

Clark gets haunted by Lois’s 30 husbands

[@sebswede9005]

Ghosts of Lois' 30 husbands: "Lois is not yours, Clark. It's just your turn". Clark: 😱😰

[@skarloey1214]

Only 30 Of Them.

[@joeker5208]

@@skarloey1214 just a low ball

[@chuckerlandsoniii415]

ROTFL

[@pedrovallefin8406]

@@skarloey1214 Theyre the only confirmed deaths. (Confirmed kills?)

[@TsuikeNovaus]

"Nervous Olsen no doubt." is simultaneously the most savage and my favorite thing I have ever heard Superman say.

[@captainnegativity9269]

"GRRRRRREAT CAESAR'S GH--" "Perry, if you drag Caesar into this, I will punt you into the sun."

[@edlaprade]

There was an episode with the title Great Caesar's Ghost. But the 'haunting' was aimed at Perry.

[@hypnos9116]

'Maybe Jimmy should get his head examined.' Inadvertently, universally good advice.

[@callumgray8545]

I want to see Dick grayson become CEO of Wayne Enterprises for boys day lol

[@nathanieldaiken1064]

That happens on the Batman TV show!

[@bsabruzzo]

If that last story took place now, Jimmy would be constantly texting Clark and sending blurry phone photos.

[@pedrovallefin8406]

I now demand a reversion of the story in comic form, preferaly written by Matt Fraction.

[@THEPETERC1]

Could almost happen. My grandmother had a parrot that she kept in the screened-in front porch during the summer. A mischievous uncle taught it to scream 'Help! Help!'--to the distress of everyone but the uncle.

[@BrandonVout]

I recall hearing about a smuggled parrot escaping and ratting out the smugglers.

[@tomorrow4eva]

If they find you respond to something they say, they will say it whenever they want attention. Parrots are toddlers. Can definitely see one picking up on something annoying like “help I’m drowning”

[@ariellakahan-harth8831]

Clark barely giving a fig for that man who fell off the cliff made my day.

[@michaelkopala3738]

Hey, saving that guy just wasn't in the budget.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Superman stepping aside as a thug goes over a cliff made my day.

[@dennismason3740]

Jack Larsen is actually a good actor. We youngsters had two role models regarding teenagers. Jimmy Olsen and juvenile delinquents - that covers all teen characters in 1953. Marlon or Jack.

[@hypnos9116]

'Nervous Olsen, no doubt' is how I want to answer all of my phone calls from now on.

[@ms.marvelous8156]

Honestly, jimmy should’ve just called Lois for some of this because he could easily goad her into helping for a story and Superman probably would’ve followed since she’s danger prone af.

[@matthewlaitala2297]

I just wanted Clark to answer Jimmy's call with "New phone, who dis?"

[@skarloey1214]

That Would Be Hilarious.

[@Thepopcornator]

So... Dick Grayson is allowed to go out at night and fight crime... but he can’t stay home alone. Okay...

[@tomorrow4eva]

He couldn’t stay home because the manor was being repainted. Apparently by getting all the painters in Gotham over to each do a room (multiple coats I guess) over the weekend so bam! Surprisingly fast huge house repaint. I may have imagined everything after the first sentence, but I head canon a Bruce who thinks outside the box like that because he’s rich and impatient.

[@AtodaK]

"Is there a back entrance?" "Yes." "Where is it? "It's in the back."

[@MrXCoolManX]

There's an episode where Perry White gets haunted by Great Cesar's Ghost that's worth a mention.

[@michaelkopala3738]

Always love that episode as a kid

[@DIEGhostfish]

Is that just a joke on his catchphrase by you. Or does the show ACTUALLY play into it with a plot?

[@quentin1326]

@@DIEGhostfish I don't remember if it was the TV show or the comic where they play an April fools joke on Perry using that idea.

[@RubenEsq]

@@DIEGhostfish This was an actual episode of the show, but I'm sure the writers got the idea from Perry's catchphrase.

[@michaeldebellis4202]

Yes, it was a real episode. I think someone was gaslighting Perry, trying to make him believe Caesar’s actual ghost was mad that Perry kept using that expression.

[@scottboswell6406]

The Superman radio show was powerfully influential! It's where we get 'Up. up, and away!', the iconic opening, and I think it had Batman and Robin meet Superman before it happened in the comics! You can find episodes if you Google Old Time Radio (OTR)!

[@Tiggeralt]

There was also the episode "Clan of the Fiery Cross" which inspired a miniseries in 2019.

[@mikhaelgribkov4117]

Kryptonite also got it roots there.

[@scottboswell6406]

@@mikhaelgribkov4117 Yes it did!

[@JennFaeAge]

Much as I love Sacha's nerdy moments, Sascha the Salt Queen is one of the best things on the internet lol

[@HandofOmega]

I remember seeing the episode where Perry White was haunted by "Great Caesar's Ghost", everytime he said his catchphrase...Original Alfred was more of comic relief with a Cockney accent, wasn't he? So, Dick leaves the police station, immediately comes back as Robin, and none of the cops suspect anything?? Well, it's cool to see Robin using fear tactics to take down a gang, he's learned well from the Dark Knight!

[@ViccVegaa023]

Original Alfred is fat, has a posh accent "Of course, Maw-ster ( Master)" and aspires to be a Detective but is comically inept at Detective work. He'd have solo gag stories where he'd try to solve a case, be completely off track and would end up capturing the bad guys anyway either by sheer luck or because Batman and Robin are secretly helping him.

[@davidmcmahon4633]

The original Alfred was an actor. After his father died, who was the Wayne Butler until shortly after Bruce became Batman and Dick had become Robin, he got the letter from his now dead father asking Alfred to give up his vagabond ways of a stage actor and follow the family occupation of being a butler and come take care of Bruce and his young ward, Dick. And he bumbles into the fact that Bruce and Dick were Batman and Robin. All in all, it is a very good origin story that should be reviewed here, *Hint* "*Hint*

[@rabnerd28]

"Jimmy really wants Clark to come over." I thought this was gonna go in a more fan ficy direction for a second.

[@qwellen7521]

So In this show Jimmy is Flanders and Clark is Reverend Lovejoy.

[@skarloey1214]

That's A Good Way Of Putting It

[@demonpniff]

If I remember right, Jimmy was cast before Lois. That's why only Jimmy and Perry appear in some episodes in season one. And one of the reasons Phyllis Coates left is because Jimmy was considered more important than Lois.

[@Madbandit77]

That tells a lot....

[@kemmdog4444]

You should definitely see the 40’s Captain Marvel series to see some real fun bad guys being “dispatched”.

[@binsoku6]

"Why not call it 'Timberwolf'?" -looks at the Legion of Superheroes-

[@skarloey1214]

Jimmy Olsen + Ghost = Hilarious.

[@robertmccarthy2254]

More than likely it's "ghost wolf" cuz its based on a comic where they could'nt use "werewolf"

[@dlee827]

Those interested in the George Reeves Superman series might also like to see the 2006 film Hollywoodland, starring Ben Affleck as Reeves. It explores his life as the TV Superman, the effect it had on his acting career - his scenes in From Here to Eternity were said to have been cut because audiences at test screenings jeered and made jokes when he appeared - and his mysterious death by gunshot. This has been ascribed to either suicide because of career issues or murder, perhaps related to an affair with the wife of a mob-connected film executive. The film is framed by an unnecessary (in my view) story of a fictional private detective, played by Adrien Brody, investigating Reeves' death but does cover some of the facts. Affleck is good as Reeves and you could make an argument that this makes him the only actor to play both Batman and Superman on film.

[@michaelkata2342]

And I would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for that meddling kid and his rotten Superman!

[@skarloey1214]

Velma: "The Ghost Was... Lex Luther" Everyone Else: 😲

[@MisterUnlikely]

Amusingly, it also reminded me of when Perry White was haunted by "Great Caesar's Ghost."

[@MrfnordTim]

TV was *really* nervous about having multiple sources of weirdness in its superhero shows until very recently. Honestly, from what I've seen of it, this series would probably have been better with more ghosts and werewolves.

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

Please do more Superman episodes. And then other old school shows. I love your channel.

[@johnpotts8308]

I wonder if "McCready" believing in ghosts might be a subtle allusion to Arthur Conan Doyle, who after the 1st World War got heavily into spiritualism. Or maybe the writers just thought Britain was full of ghosts (it's not)!

[@markchapman6800]

In the last one, why was Jimmy hanging around the house rather than at work with Clark? Also, 6:29 " _Ghost Wolf_ contains no ghosts!" and no wolves either, by the sound of it.

[@theloniousMac]

At least Superman just stepped out of the way and watched the guy fall to he death. I saw a Shazam movie where Shazam was firing machine guns into the backs of pirates and throwing people of the tops of buildings. Very different time.

[@SG-jw8mo]

The first Ghost episode is one of my all time favorites. I had no idea it was the second episode untill I got the DVDs, because they use to show the episodes in a random order back in the 70s. True, Lois would actually be Noel Nell one day and Phyllis Coates the next.

[@Polycomical]

"You mean...like Superman?" "Jimmy!"

[@pedrovallefin8406]

I dont know why is about the way he says "Jimmy" that makes it so funny to me. Maybe its because theres something sugestive about it. Its just so bizarre.

[@michaelkopala3738]

Jimmy Olsen knows what Jimmy Olsen knows.

[@berniedavis6676]

there should be a story called jimmy olsen: ghostbuster.

[@michaelkopala3738]

I ain't afraid of no ghost but apparently Jimmy Olsen is.

[@aidanklobuchar1798]

You'd think after all of the criminal rings that Jimmy gets himself involved in that Clark would start listening to him. I'm just going to believe that Clark _does_ believe him, but just can't resist some of that ol' Super-Dickery. This is the guy who laughed as (not) Wonder Woman beat the snot out of Lois Lane after all.

[@johnfeer9609]

Jack Larson's antics basically "put Jimmy on the Map", Noelle Neill became Lois Lane's physical template in the comics into the late 1960's. This show is hugely consequent in the Superman mythos.

[@WarmLillie]

This the true reason why Superman need to save everyone or else the ghost of his past / failure will not only haunt and come after him eventually now.

[@joakimhansen7733]

If Jimmy had just married Lous he wouldn't have had to be all alone in that spooky mansion.

[@fredcampbell4066]

Clark and Jimmy, World traveling finest. I love this show, great memories.

[@sampew1605]

I've always wanted to capture someone with a pistol! What?

[@davidchurch5932]

"Oh... did I say that out loud?"

[@Estarfigam]

I love the fact you were able to tie in a comic book to this. I am always up for whatever the whim takes us.

[@THEPETERC1]

That gangster is John Doucette, who made it all the way into the Liz Taylor Cleopatra. I saw all these people all the time a thousand years ago.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Jimmy should throw those scary paintings away.

[@mrpanic92]

Moose Island is where the Stephen King book "The Colorado Kid" takes place, so there is a random fact.

[@goodsirbear-7579]

Sasha: "Only two identities for Superman" Kal-El 👁👄👁

[@jamesblack3586]

You have inspired me to watch this series,one can never have to much Super man,especally classic Super man up,up and away

[@justanotherglorpsdaymornin5097]

Jimmy: This is my emotional support Superman. Clark (vanished)

[@bioniccrouton]

This video reminded me why I loved these old Superman episodes.

[@timross5351]

It is fascinating to throw the same plot at two different characters to see how each would handle it. Also, it is interesting to see these tales that take place before Superman has all of the 'solve mysteries instantly' powers, like x-ray vision and telescopic vision to keep an eye on Jimmy from afar. I also always get confused at how old Jimmy is supposed to be: 16? 17?

[@bensneb360]

Speaking of Jimmy and Robin, has there ever been a story where Jimmy hung out with the Teen Titans ? You think with his popularity and the popularity of the Titans, they’d want to cash in and have the two cross over… now that would make an interesting comic, especially if it was in the silver age, I’d buy it in a heartbeat

[@dinosaursprinkles9669]

Ooh, I agree that it’s interesting to see how two so different characters handle a similar situation

[@richarddefortuna2252]

That first story plot seems very reminiscent of a Hardy Boys' mystery!

[@UncleMuin]

This show ran on a local uhf in reruns when I was a kid. I watched all of them I could. Some hilarious moments. I will admit, the show made me not like Lois at all, and it wasn't until I was much older and reading the comics that I saw writers using Lois and Jimmy as intelligent and competent characters.

[@Planag7]

14:21 losing his marbles! I love that saying

[@Jsouza1226]

I’m not sure if this is correct, but I think that Superman’s cape and the other parts of his costume that were supposed to be red were actually blue, because for some reason blue looks a lot like red when you put it in black and white.

[@dngillikin]

It wasn't. The costume used in the black and white episodes was a light grey with the cape, trunks, and boots being a rusty brown color.

[@Medraut00]

don't forget Great Caesar's Ghost where Perry is 'haunted' which is based off a comic.

[@briguy_3840]

I still love this show. I would watch it late on TV land as a kid. It still makes me smile

[@macuna1995]

I should really check out more of these episodes of this show, seems really *hip* .

[@skarloey1214]

I Don't Think Hip Was Even An Expression When this Show was Made.

[@RbkARI]

@@skarloey1214 It was more widely used then than now lol

[@skarloey1214]

@@RbkARI Yeah but i think it's was manly used in 60s and 70s and this show is from the 50s

[@RbkARI]

@@skarloey1214 True. It originated way before that though.

[@carlthejedi]

Give is a warning before showing a picture of an evil clown. Dem scary

[@pauld6967]

Supes didn't kill the smuggler. All he did was step aside when the guy charged and momentum took the guy over the edge. It's not like Superman could fly do....down and,....save hi,...umm, never mind. ;-)

[@RubenEsq]

It wasn't until _years_ after seeing this show as a child I realized the plots with all the gangsters, mad scientists and Scooby Doo level "supernatural" goofiness Superman faced, this really should have been a *_Batman_* series.

[@davidmcmahon4633]

Been awhile since I last saw the TV show. I remember it in re-runs as a kid in the 70s. What surprised me, the last time I saw the black and white early episodes, was how callous Superman was in the first two years of the show. A carryover from the two movie serials I guess. Another good example, besides the one you showed, was when a trio of crooks discover Clark Kent is Superman. He captures them and flies them to a ledge on a mountainside and flies away. They eventually fall to their deaths. I wonder how many other callous acts by Superman you can find in those early episodes?

[@simonkennedy6116]

Casually Comics has more continuity than The Adventures Of Superman

[@EClark-nu5nr]

Okay, Sasha, I remember watching this episode and one other where someone died. Superman didn't kill either of the bad guys. In this one he just avoided being hit by a stone, and the guy went over the cliff. In the other, A bad guy discovered Superman's secret identity, so Superman took him to a mountain until he could deal with him. He TOLD the guy to stay there and he'd be back but the bad guy didn't listen and fell to his death.

[@chrisleneil]

I always loved Jack Larson in this series. Thanks for covering this!

[@slake9727]

The haunted lighthouse is similar to an episode of the superman radio show but that one involved smugglers i believe

[@AnthonyWLeone]

So I never understood this: They have no problems with believing Superman is an alien and has powers like a god, but believing in a ghost was a little too much for them?

[@richmcgee434]

Best Jimmy is still Kirby's brief run on the book, which is also some of the most gonzo insanity ever printed. Even the baffling obsession with Don Rickles can't drag things down.

[@lordsxman]

Really liked that last story, although it made Jimmy Olsen look like a child.

[@MrTumshie]

Great video Sasha. I can't deny that you've become one of my favourite KZbinrs since the early days of Top 10 Nerd and all the more so since you started your own channel. The thing you have in common with my other favourite (Agadmator's Chess Channel) is the obvious love for the subject matter combined with a strong and acerbically dry at times wit. You do better character voices and sound effects than he does (those wouldn't be suitable for a chess channel anyway) but conversely you haven't displayed much of a grasp on endgame theory... I hope this doesn't come across as too sycophantic as I find that sort of thing pretty distasteful, but please do keep up the good work.

[@bubbles784]

9:37 (Hears Lois realizing that she's late to work and is about to take a shortcut [through the ancient power of jump-of-cliff]) Clark: "Hey look Jimmy, a bird!" Jimmy: "Mr. Kent, we're indoors, why would-" (I know what I wrote is a call back to one of Lois marries, but I don't which one. I think it might be the futuristic alien that makes Lois turn green when she's at his time period.)

[@JimmyAkin]

Something to be careful of is the fact that many Adventures of Superman episodes are presented in a form that was edited-down for commercials as the amount of time commercials took up in a TV show expanded. This results in strange scenes that don't quite fit together. In the case of the British episode, the mysterious phone call you refer to could have been paid off in another scene that got cut. I don't know what your source is for viewing these episodes, but you might check to see if they're the complete originals or if they've been edited down. If it's the latter, there may be loose ends caused by the editing process.

[@rodneylindsey849]

Hi Sasha, what I learned from rewatching Adventures of Superman is that Clark’s adoptive parents where initially named Eben & Sarah Kent , not Johnathan & Martha. I read where that was true in their initial appearance in comics as well. Might be worth a vid to see why & when it changed. I can see changing Eben to Johnathan because maybe Eben was a common name in it’s time but no so much now, but Sarah is a kind of eternal name ( IMO). Anyway Keep up the Great Work

[@freddyb6105]

In the series his mother's name isn't Martha.. the reruns ran throughout my "5 channels 70s youth". I've seen these episodes too many times actually

[@dngillikin]

In this series, Clark's parents are Sarah and Eben Kent, names taken from George Lowther's licensed Superman spin-off novel published in the forties, IIRC.

[@michaelcarter9395]

You remind me, that we have a picture of a madman hanging in our house that we should probably take down...🤔 Maybe tomorrow...

[@artymixon5316]

I've been watching these reruns on the weekends,im actually enjoying them as much as the batman reruns

[@michaelkopala3738]

Somewhere I have a vague memory of a super team up. Batman and Superman and their sidekicks Robin and Jimmy Olsen. I hope this isn't true but I have a strange feeling it is.

[@michaelkopala3738]

I think there's actually a comic book about that. And yes it is wonderfully weird as it sounds. I can see the big three but Jimmy Olsen is a superhero.? I think it took place in the battle City of Kandor.

[@justkita3890]

I'm really glad to learn about that robin comic. I didn't even know Robin *had* comics in the 1940s.

[@diddymuck]

the Adventures of Superman was famous primarily for convincing the public that a big city daily newspaper can be run by 5 or 6 people!

[@melenatorr]

FYI on the English episode: Macready is the surname of at least two famous actors: William Macready, a stage actor in England from the 19th century, renowned for his talent in Shakespeare roles; and George Macready, an American actor, who claimed descent from William. He made several movies, probably the most famous of which is the villain (he often played villains) in "Gilda". So the use of Macready here was definitely deliberate.

[@manuelgutierrez1845]

Casually comics the best channel for knowin' on comic books few people talks and now for knowing about productions few people talks, cool stuff girl, keep going

[@robs6952]

Not Jimmy or ghosts related, but seeing the smuggler go off the cliff made me wonder if you have seen the episode where a couple discover he is Clark so he leaves them on an icy cliff where they fall to their doom shortly after he leaves? 😳 TV Supes is some sort of passive serial killer!!

[@VerveQuest-zc4ri]

Reeves was a good actor but his Superman was so popular execs no longer believed he'd be accepted in other roles

[@toddnolastname4485]

Maybe Superman should have Jimmy hang out with Robin or Batman for awhile. Teach him some self-defense tactics. Might be a good idea to have Lois hang out with Batgirl.

[@bricktrooper540]

They feel like episodes of scooby doo.

[@johnbockelie3899]

I've seen that painting in a different movie.

[@fredwardv6988]

I like that the painting had no background.

[@Crowvamp1979]

I could never figure out how old Jimmy was suppose to be in this show. Dose anyone know?

[@lindafreeman7030]

Unlike many pets, parrots can live a very long time. Just because the parrot didn't hear anyone drown in the recent past (aka this episode) doesn't mean it NEVER heard it...

[@nooctip]

As ordered I will spring no Sprang jokes. The lady in black is may fav of the episodes listed, with Ghost for Scotland Yard being second.

[@PosthumanHeresy]

Tbh I massively prefer the Robin version. I really like the aspect of Robin having to put into practice the Bat-training and use fear like Bruce does. It's just a really cool "oh damn, he really is becoming an equal to Batman" story.

[@markeidemiller3105]

THE FIRST JIMMY OLSEN EPISODE WAS WAS HOKEY BUT FUN. DIDN'T HAVE MUCH OF A PLOT, AND YOU COULD SEE THROUGH THE PLOT HOLES, BUT IT WAS FUN.

[@CieJe.Alexander]

Nice comment, but all-caps? Are you screaming at us? Is everything alright? Are you in a spooky house/apartment alone at night? Do you need some warm cocoa? ☕🙏

[@TJUC123]

I find it hilarious how everyone complains about Clark killing Zod in Man of Steel and feeling pain and remorse right after he does it, but NO ONE complains about every other time Superman has killed someone and NOT GIVE A F*CK!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@comedyrock]

A lot of these episodes just want me to watch Night Gallery

[@marktaylor6553]

Wait... Jimmy had a serious package? No wonder Clark could never commit to Lois...

[@snakeoi1sean]

Has there ever been an Elseworlds issue of "Superman's Pal, Dick Grayson"?

[@f12mnb]

It was a simpler more innocent time!