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    Janie Olsen

    Character » Janie Olsen appears in 9 issues.

    Janie Olsen is the older sister of Jimmy Olsen. She's a controversial award-winning avant-garde playwright and poet.

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    Janie Olsen last edited by akawiccan on 01/12/23 10:12AM View full history

    Creation

    Janie Olsen was created by Matt Fraction, Nathan Fairbairn and Steve Lieber, first appearing as a supporting character in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #5.

    Introduction

    Overtune! Curtain! Lights! Showtime! -- After a creative exile of nearly four years, the controversial playwrighter an poet Janeifer LaCroix Olsenis putting up her new show tonight, an incendiary array of monologues and one-acts structured around the tortured and tortuous history of her family, the infamous Olsens of Metropolis.

    What could be so bad about being an Olsen that it drove her to renounce her wealth and all its comforts? To drive her from Metropolis to Gotham? To seek a career writing live theater?

    You'll just have to ask Jimmy Olsen's Goth-y Sister Janie Olsen

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