Bizarro World 1962
I love the Bizarro World.
Originally Bizarro was a tragic figure, an imperfect Frankenstein-like clone of Superboy who briefly menaced Smallville with his super powers until Superboy was forced to kill him with cloned kryptonite or send him into the Phantom Zone or something. Probably the latter. He reemerged years later to create thousands of clones of himself, Lois Lane, Superboy's pet dog Krypto, Mr. Mxyzptlk, and anyone else who stood in his way, and shlepped everyone to an empty planet somewhere.
On the Bizarro World the law clearly stated that everything you did had to be the opposite of what people did on earth - imagine, if you will, a world where everyone acted like Dick Cheney does on our own planet. It was a law that sort of undermined itself by betraying the very principles it was meant to uphold (kind of like the Patriot Act); in other words Bizarro World citizens who violated the law should have been rewarded, not punished.
Needless to say Bizarro evolved from tragic character to harmless buffoon once he got his own second-feature stories in Adventure Comics in the 60s.
This issue from March 1962 was published just a few months before Marilyn Monroe's death the following summer.
By the way - I used the phrase "if you will" earlier because it's one Dick Cheney uses in every speech he makes and every interview he gives.
Bizarro World 1962
I love the Bizarro World.
Originally Bizarro was a tragic figure, an imperfect Frankenstein-like clone of Superboy who briefly menaced Smallville with his super powers until Superboy was forced to kill him with cloned kryptonite or send him into the Phantom Zone or something. Probably the latter. He reemerged years later to create thousands of clones of himself, Lois Lane, Superboy's pet dog Krypto, Mr. Mxyzptlk, and anyone else who stood in his way, and shlepped everyone to an empty planet somewhere.
On the Bizarro World the law clearly stated that everything you did had to be the opposite of what people did on earth - imagine, if you will, a world where everyone acted like Dick Cheney does on our own planet. It was a law that sort of undermined itself by betraying the very principles it was meant to uphold (kind of like the Patriot Act); in other words Bizarro World citizens who violated the law should have been rewarded, not punished.
Needless to say Bizarro evolved from tragic character to harmless buffoon once he got his own second-feature stories in Adventure Comics in the 60s.
This issue from March 1962 was published just a few months before Marilyn Monroe's death the following summer.
By the way - I used the phrase "if you will" earlier because it's one Dick Cheney uses in every speech he makes and every interview he gives.