Comic Title: World of Metropolis #4
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: November 1988
On Sale Date: July 12, 1988 Shipping Date July 12, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #6

Shipping Date July 14, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #144

Newsstand Date August 6, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #144

Copyright Date August 2, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date July 12, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #760, #762

Newsstand Date July 26, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #760, #762

Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mike Carlin

Title: "Friends in Need"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Superman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: John L. Byrne
Penciller: J. Winslow Mortimer
Inker: Dick Giordano
Inker: Sal Trapani
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Thomas J. Ziuko

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #445; next appearance in Green Lantern Special #1)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #445; next appearance in Superman #23)
• Lois Lane (in flashback; last appearance in Man of Steel #2; next appearance in Superman #12)

Villain(s)

• Fat Eddie Cortes and his gang (drug dealers; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Chrissie Macmillan (last name also given as Walker in this story; also appears in flashback; no further appearances)
• Sarah Olsen (in flashback; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Superman #15)
• Mr. Krupps (a Daily Planet manager; in flashback; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #642; next appearance in Secret Origins #32)
• Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in Man of Steel #2; next appearance in Superman #12)

Synopsis:
While trying to get evidence which will expose a drug trafficking ring, Jimmy Olsen is caught and tied up inside a sinking ship. He uses his signal watch to call Superman to save his life. After the Man of Steel rescues Jimmy, the young reporter reflects upon the first time he came upon a means to signal Superman.

About a year after the debut of Superman, Jimmy was working as a copy boy at the Daily Planet. One day, after returning home from work, his friend Chrissie Walker came to him after swallowing an entire bottle of pills. Efforts to reach emergency services failed, so Jimmy constructed a means to generate an annoying sound beyond the range of normal hearing. Superman picked up on the sound and was able to reach Chrissie before she died.

After watching Superman finish off the rest of the drug dealers, Jimmy pays a visit to Chrissie who has recovered from her problems in the intervening years. Jimmy and Chrissie have remained friends.