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Issue Details

Issue #264
Published May 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "Superman Becomes a Bizarro!"

Characters Superman (as Bizarro); Perry White; Lois Lane
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted In Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #2

1 page public service announcement "What's Wrong With These Pictures?"

Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily

13 page Superman story "The Superman Bizarro"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane: Jimmy Olsen; Bizarro World; Bizarro; Bizarro-Lois; Fortress of Solitude; Clark Kent robot
Synopsis Captured by the Bizarros on Bizarro World, Superman is sentenced to be turned into a Bizarro himself.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Continued from last issue. Superman turns Bizarro world into a cube.
Reprinted In Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #2

Half page Ollie filler "Watch out, Ollie, Don't Walk Under the Ladder!"

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

2 page Metropolis Mailbag letters page

Script Mort Weisinger
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Letters typeset

12 page Supergirl story "Supergirl Gets Adopted!"

Characters Supergirl; Mr. Wilkins; Mrs. Wilkins
Synopsis Linda has to scheme to prevent herself from being adopted. She spends 30 days with the Wilkins. Mr. Wilkins is a policeman.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney
Notes Showcase Presents: Supergirl (DC, 2007 series) #1 credits writer to Otto Binder.
Reprinted in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #347 (March 1967); in Supergirl Archives (DC, 2001 series) #1; in Showcase Presents: Supergirl (DC, 2007 series) #1

Half page Varsity Vic filler "I understand you're in the school band"

Genre teen; humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

1 page Professor Eureka filler "New Librarian][First Line: My, my, look at all those books ..."

Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes Title and first line from Arthur Lortie, added August 2006.