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Issue Details

Issue #254
Published July 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "The Battle with Bizarro!"

Characters Superman; Bizarro; Green Kryptonite
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

11 page Superman story "The Battle with Bizarro!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Bizarro (intro as Adult Bizarro); Lex Luthor (villain); Vekko; Perry White; Jimmy Olsen; Lois Lane; Green Kryptonite
Synopsis Luthor steals Professor Dalton's duplicating machine and creates an adult Bizarro to menace Superman, but this Bizarro turns on its creator, hands him over to the authorities, and attempts to help Superman. When the people he has helped react in horror to him, Bizarro gets depressed. He misinterprets Lois' sympathy to his plight for true affection and takes her to a remote island. But when she rejects him, he turns the duplicator ray on himself and creates a handsome bizarro duplicate, whom Lois mistakes for the real Superman.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Notes 1st Bizarro appeared in Superboy 68
Reprinted in 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #6 (January 1965); in Superman in the Fifties (DC, 2002 series) #nn; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

Half page Ollie filler

Genre Gag
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

6 page Congorilla story "Congorilla Goes Wild!"

Characters Congo Bill; Congorilla; an unnamed thief (villain)
Synopsis A thief steals Congo Bill's ring and uses it to switch minds with Congorilla.
Genre superhero; jungle
Pencils Howard Sherman
Inks Howard Sherman

Half page Janie filler

Genre Gag

Half page Varsity Vic filler

Genre Gag
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

1 page Metropolis Mailbag letters page

Letters typeset

8 page Supergirl story "Supergirl's Foster Parents!"

Characters Supergirl; Miss Hart; Mr. Dale (villain); Mrs. Dale (villain)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney
Reprinted in Supergirl Archives (DC, 2001 series) #1; in Showcase Presents: Supergirl (DC, 2007 series) #1