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Issue Details

Issue	#140
Published	October 1960
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "The Son of Bizarro!"

Characters	Superman [Clark Kent]; Bizarro #1; Bizarro-Lois #1; Bizarro-Jr. #1
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Stan Kaye
Reprinted	In Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #2

10 page Superman story "The Son of Bizarro! [Part 1]"

Characters	Superman; Bizarro #1; Bizarro-Lois #1; Bizarro-Jr. #1 (born); Bizarro World; Lex Luthor (flashback); Lois Lane (flashback)
Synopsis	Bizarro-Lois gives birth to Bizarro-Jr. No. 1 who, while he thinks like a Bizarro looks like Superman when he was Super-Tot. When B-Jr. No. 1 becomes publicly known, Bizarro takes him out into space and stores him in an abandoned space capsule. The capsule crashes on Earth and Bizarro-Jr. No 1 is taken to the same Midvale Orphanage where Linda Lee (Supergirl) lives.
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Wayne Boring
Inks	Stan Kaye
Notes	3-part novel Synopsis by Kevin Roward 2/23/09
Reprinted	in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #347 (March 1967); in Superman From the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #[nn]; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #2; in Showcase Presents: Supergirl (DC, 2007 series) #1

Half page Dexter filler

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

8 page Superman story The "Orphan" Bizarro! [part 2]

Characters	Superman; Bizarro-Jr. #1; Supergirl; Krypto; Fortress of Solitude
Synopsis	Linda Lee is assigned to watch the newly named baby Buster which lasts until B-Jr. No. 1 remembers the existence of his parents and flies off. Supergirl and Superman take Bizarro Jr. to the Fortress where they have him adopted by two of Superman's robots. During Jr.'s sleep period Supergirl's tries to do her chemistry homework and when her Heat Vision blows up her assignment she thinks she's turned "baby buster" into a Bizarro!
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Wayne Boring
Inks	Stan Kaye
Notes	synopsis by Kevin Rowand 9/23/09
Reprinted	in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #347 (March 1967); in Superman From the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #[nn] (1971); in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #2; in Showcase Presents: Supergirl (DC, 2007 series) #1

1 page Metropolis Mailbag letters page

Script	Mort Weisinger
Pencils	Wayner Boring
Inks	Stan Kaye
Letters	typeset

8 page Superman story "The Bizarro Supergirl! [part 3]"

Characters	Superman; Bizarro-Supergirl (intro); Supergirl; Bizarro-Jr. #1; Krypto; Fortress of Solitude; green kryptonite; blue kryptonite; Bizarro-Lois #1
Synopsis	Bizarro-Jr. finds Lex's original Imperfect Duplicator while playing in the Fortress of Solitude and creates a Bizarro-Supergirl. Superman and Supergirl decide to return "Buster" to Bizarro world but Bizarro-Supergirl wants to keep him for her own. Bizarro spots his now-acceptable-looking child and and leads all the Bizarros into War against Earth. Superman uses the Duplicator Ray to turn a pile of Green K into Blue Kryptonite and then paints it green. The Bizarros attempt to seize the disguised blue K, are weakened retreat back to their homeworld. Superman then uses the Blue K to free Bizarro-Jr. No. 1 from the Bizarro-Supergirl and returns him to his adoring parents. Bizarro Supergirl is later found dead next to the Green/blue kryptonite pile.
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Wayne Boring
Inks	Stan Kaye
Notes	synopsis by Kevin Rowand 2/23/09
Reprinted	in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #347 (March 1967); in Superman From the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #[nn] (1971); in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #2; in Showcase Presents: Supergirl (DC, 2007 series) #1