NEW BIZARRO

Real Name: New Bizarro

Class: Terrestrial construct

Occupation: None

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile

First Appearance: Action Comics I #254 (July, 1959)

Powers: New Bizarro was an imperfect duplicate of Bizarro, himself an imperfect duplicate of Superman. New Bizarro was composed of lifeless matter and possessed all of Superman's powers, but had a backwards mind. Under a yellow sun New Bizarro  had incalculable levels of superhuman strength and invulnerability. He possessed the powers of superspeed, heat-vision, telescopic vision, super-hearing and flight.  New Bizarro was vulnerable to kryptonite.

History: (Action Comics I #254, 255) - Lex Luthor visited Smallville and came across an old newspaper story about Professor Dalton, who once used a duplicator ray to create the Bizarro Superboy. Luthor stole Dalton’s plans for the duplicator ray to build his own, and showed off the ray to his lab assistant Vekko, bragging that he’d use it to destroy superman. Luthor posed as “Professor Clyde” and phoned up Perry White, telling him he’d come up with an antidote for kryptonite. Superman visited his lab, and “Clyde” had him stand in front of the duplicator way under the pretense of making him immune to kryptonite. The duplicator ray created Bizarro, an imperfect duplicate of superman with stony skin and a backwards mind. Luthor took off his disguise and ordered Bizarro to destroy Superman, but Bizarro realized he was a monstrosity, and was furious at Luthor for creating him. He grabbed Luthor and Vekko to take them to jail, and admitted to Superman that he didn’t know the difference between right and wrong and didn’t belong in the world. Superman decided he’d have to be destroyed, reasoning that it was morally correct because Bizarro was lifeless matter in human form, but first had to deal with a massive tidal wave causing havoc at sea. Bizarro turned over Luther and Vekko to the police, who were horrified by Bizarro. He tried to prove he was a hero by saving a plane from crashing, but the passengers ran away form him in fear when they were on the ground, and the distraught Bizarro decided to leave Metropolis. The army dropped bombs on Bizarro, but he was unharmed and told them he’d save them the trouble of destroying him by committing suicide. Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane were following Bizarro in the Daily Planet news helicopter, and Lois snapped some pictures of Bizarro flying full speed into a mountainside. Bizarro was unharmed and upset at still being alive until he overheard Lois fawning over her shots of him, and misunderstood what she was saying, thinking she’d fallen in love with him. Bizarro built a ramshackle house on a remote island, declared it a palace, and flew Lois Lane there, saying it was a house they could live in after they got married. Lois told him the only man she loved was superman, and Bizarro reasoned that if he was handsome like superman Lois would marry him. Bizarro stole the duplicator ray from police headquarters, and used it on himself, creating New Bizarro, who still had an imperfect mind like him, but was handsome like New Bizarro proposed to Lois, who failed to notice his backward speech, and she embraced and kissed him. Superman caught up with the Bizarros, and Bizarro said he didn’t want superman interfering in his plan, and presented him with a giant boulder of green kryptonite he’d found on the island. Lois realized something was wrong after listening to New Bizarro talk more, and he admitted he was a Bizarro, but bragged about how attractive he was and said Lois would be lucky to be hitched to him. Lois didn’t appreciate how conceited New Bizarro was, and said she even preferred the original Bizarro over him, causing New Bizarro to start mocking his creator for being so ugly. The infuriated Bizarro attacked New Bizarro, and their battle led to a naval testing ground, where they started hurling torpedoes at each other. Bizarro returned to the island and smashed the kryptonite boulder into dust, asking Superman to help him defeat New Bizarro. The kryptonite dust was carried away by the wind, and New Bizarro inhaled it. Unlike Bizarro he had the same vulnerability to kryptonite that Superman had, and he disintegrated. Lois ended up using the duplicator ray to make a Bizarro Lois Lane so Bizarro wouldn’t be lonely anymore.

Comments: Created by Otto Binder & Al Plastino.

New Bizarro's appearance in Action Comics I #254, 255 was reprinted in 80-Page Giant Magazine #6.