Va va voom! Bow ties, fitted dress shirts, your brother's belt...if cross-dressing like this is wrong, I don't wanna be right!!From Young Romance #124 (1963).
BONUS: What's that book she's reading??
Textbooks For Dummies--another trend that really started in the 1960s!!!
Um, other than a bow tie reference, what does any of this have to do with Jimmy Olsen?
ReplyDeleteThis isn't a Jimmy Olsen comic, hell it isn't even a *DC* comic (being the last issue from its original publisher Crestwood Prize before moving to DC), the girl doesn't have red hair, she doesn't have freckles, and I've never known Jimmy to be noted for his "androgyny" either, except for his cross-dressing capers (which aren't an integral part of his character).
Sure, he may have been presented as "young adult/boyish" compared to Superman's "fully-grown adult", but "androgynous"? Nah...
Although any androgyny that Jimmy might have *would* put a neat, tight little spin on his whole "Superman's Pal" angle, adding a ton of fuel to the speculation fire re: why Supes never committed to Lois, his co-partnership with Batman, etc.
BTW, I *totally* thought you doctored the cover of that book...too damn funny, "This is a book. It is used for *studying*." :P that's exactly the kind of thing you see Bugs Bunny doing/saying *JUST* before he winds up and smacks you in the face with it ;D