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  • Jimmy Olsen narrates what it was like when Superman first showed up, "a man who could clean-and-jerk Fords and Chevys". Superman famously lifted a car in his first issue.
  • As reminiscing, Jimmy remembers renowned 20th century sportsmen and actresses: Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey...
  • Superman describing his cousin:
    Jimmy: "I remember him saying once, ‘The only female Kryptonian on Earth, and she has to act like Jane Fonda crossed with Gloria Steinem.' And I think I said, ‘Yeah, and she looks like Jane Fonda crossed with Ursula Andress.'"
  • Jimmy suspected Kara's secret i.d. was Christie Brinkley.
  • Wonder Woman took Power Girl her first NOW meeting.
  • Power Girl brings up that time she met Supergirl and other Earth-One heroines during the Judgment in Infinity Wonder Woman storyline.
  • Fury read the Bulfinch's Mythology before choosing her hero name.
  • There's a pretty lengthy cameo to Raiders of the Lost Ark:
    The Holy Grail was transported by Dr. Fate into a crate which had sat, uninspected and mostly unmoved, in the basement storage area of a Washington, D.C. agency for almost fifty years. The only other object in the crate had been brought there by a Professor Jones in the 1930's. The bureaucracy had boxed it up, labelled it Classified, and kept it there until everybody concerned who knew about it were dead, or at least disinclined to talk about it. The Grail and the other occupant of the box reposed side by side, and time went on about them.


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