Comic Title: Superman:Escape from Bizarro World HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2008
On Sale Date: May 21, 2008 Direct Market Date May 14, 2008
Source: Previews, #232

Direct Market Date May 21, 2008
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Cover Price: $24.99
Page Count: 160
Editor: Bob Harras

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Son of Bizarro"
Pages: 26

Feature(s):
Superman (of Earth-1)

Writer: Otto Binder
Penciller: Wayne Boring
Inker: Stan Kaye

Reprinted From:
Superman #140 (1960)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics #268; next appearance in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #20)

Guest Star(s)

• Supergirl (last appearance in Action Comics #268; next appearance in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #48)

Villain(s)

• Bizarro (last appearance in Action Comics #264; next appearance in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #50)
• Bizarro Supergirl (a duplicate of Supergirl; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Krypto (last appearance in Superman #139; next appearance in Action Comics #270)

Other Character(s)

• Bizarro Lois Lane (last appearance in Action Comics #264; next appearance in Superman #143)
• Bizarro Jr. (Bizarro and Bizarro-Lois’s baby; next appearance in Superman #143)
• Inhabitants of Bizarro World (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Lex Luthor (in flashback to the first story of Action Comics #254)
• Lois Lane (in flashback to the first story of Action Comics #254)
• Vekko (in flashback to the first story of Action Comics #254)

Comments:
Chap. 2: "The Orphan Bizarro"
Chap. 3: "The Bizarro Supergirl"

The events of the first story of Action Comics #254 and the first story of Action Comics #263 are recapped in this story.

Superman creates Blue Kryptonite which is deadly to Bizarro’s for the first time in this story.

Synopsis:
The original Bizarro and Bizarro-Lois Lane have a child which does not share their Bizarro appearance. When the other Bizarros learn of this, they try and force the couple to destroy the Bizarro baby. Instead, Bizarro takes the child and hides it in a satellite. When he returns however the satellite is gone, having landed on Earth.

The child is found and turned over to the Midvale Orphanage. Linda Lee, secretly Supergirl, learns of the baby’s powers and tries to hide them. Superman has Linda protect them baby from discovery until he can arange for a robot family to adopt the child. The baby is then taken to Superman’s Fortress where Superman and Supergirl act as foster parents.

The baby’s appearance changes to that of a Bizarro, and Supergirl believes she was responsible. The baby also accidentally creates a Bizarro Supergirl with the duplicator ray. Bizarros sees the baby with his telescopic vision and returns to Earth to retrieve his child. Bizarro Supergirl refuses to hand over the child, forcing Bizarro to gather an army of Bizarro’s to attack Earth.

Superman uses the duplicator ray on some Kryptonite, creating Blue Kryptonite which becomes deadly to Bizarros. The Blue Kryptonite is able to stop the advancing army. Superman then uses the Blue K to take the baby Bizarro away from Bizarro Supergirl, and return him to his rightful parents. They also learn that the transition from normal appearance to that of a Bizarro is standard for all Bizarro children, so Supergirl was not responsible. Finally the Bizarro Supergirl is killed when she landed near some Blue Kryptonite and the radiation ended her life.