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Issue Details

Issue #291
Published December 1961
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger
Notes Larry Zucker and Bill Keane, Jr., provide Bits of Bizarro Business!(?)

Cover Details - "Superboy's Romance with Cleopatra"

Characters Cleopatra; Prof Lang
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Notes Larry Zucker and Bill Keane, Jr., provide Bits of Bizarro Business!(?)

14 page Superboy story "Superboy's Romance with Cleopatra"

Characters Prof Potter (1st Superboy appearance, revealed to be Lana's uncle),Cleopatra, Lana Lang, Ma and Pa Kent, Clark Kent robot, Ramses (intro)
Synopsis When Superboy reveals he's in love with Cleopatra to ward of the teen age girls of Smallville, Prof Potter helpfully invents a time machine to bring her to the present.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein?
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Notes Writer id by Bob Hughes 8/05

1 page Shorty filler "Watch Repairman"

Synopsis Can he fix an hourglass?
Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

1 page Peg filler "Dashing Knight"

Synopsis Knight on a rocking horse
Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

11 page Tales of the Bizarro World story "The Bizarro Perfect Crimes"

Characters Superman, Bizarro Lois #1
Synopsis Superman helps find Bizarro-Lois No. 1
Genre superhero; humor
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Notes inker id by Bob Hughes, Previously given as George Klein.
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #202 (December 1967-January 1968); in Superman: Tales of the Bizarro World (DC, 2000 series) #nn

1 page Little Pete filler "Yo-Yo"

Synopsis Huge yo-yo is reel of telephone cable
Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff