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Issue Details

Issue #255
Published August 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "The Bride of Bizarro!"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Bizarro; Bizarro-Lois Lane
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman in the Fifties (DC, 2002 series) #nn; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

11 page Superman story "The Bride of Bizarro!"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Bizarro; Bizarro-Lois Lane; New Bizarro; Green Kryptonite
Synopsis Bizarro keeps the real Superman from revealing to Lois that she has been proposed to by Bizarro's duplicate, whom he calls New Bizarro, with a kryptonite meteorite, but Lois realizes New Bizarro is not the true Man of Steel. But New Bizarro doesn't give up easily, and the duplicates fight each other. Bizarro seeks out Superman's help and destroys the kryptonite, turning it into a dust cloud which destroys New Bizarro. Bizarro resumes courting Lois, until Lois creates a duplicate of herself so that Bizarro can have his own Bizarro-Lois.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Notes Story continues from previous issue.
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 Fun Shop activity "What Plant Stands for Four?"

6 page Congorilla story "The Abominable Snowman!"

Characters Congo Bill; Congorilla; The Abominable Snowman (villain)
Genre superhero; jungle
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils Howard Sherman
Inks Howard Sherman
Reprinted in Century, The 100 Page Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 series) #43

Half page Jerry the Jitterbug filler

Genre Gag
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

1 page Metropolis Mailbag letters page

Letters typeset

Half page Honey in Hollywood filler

Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

6 page Supergirl story "Supergirl Visits the 21st Century!"

Characters Supergirl [Kara Zor-El]; Tommy Tomorrow (as a child); Jik
Synopsis Supergirl travels into the future for the first time and meets young Tommy Tomorrow.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney
Reprinted in Superman Family (DC, 1974 series) #179 (October 1976); in Supergirl Archives (DC, 2001 series) #1; in Showcase Presents: Supergirl (DC, 2007 series) #1