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Action Comics #255

DC · Series began 1938 · August 1959

Dates

Cover date
August 1959
On sale
June 30, 1959
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Curt Swan, Al Plastino, Martin Naydel, Howard Sherman, Henry Boltinoff, Jim Mooneyinks: Stan Kaye, Al Plastino, Martin Naydel, Howard Sherman, Henry Boltinoff, Jim Mooneyscript: Otto Binder, Martin Naydel, Robert Bernstein, Henry Boltinoffletters: Martin Naydel, Henry Boltinoff

Stories

  • The Bride of Bizarro! · 11.67 pages

    Bizarro keeps the real Superman from revealing to Lois that she has been proposed to by Bizarro's duplicate, whom he calls New Bizarro, with a kryptonite meteorite, but Lois realizes New Bizarro is not the true Man of Steel. But New Bizarro doesn't give up easily, and the duplicates fight each other. Bizarro seeks out Superman's help and destroys the kryptonite, turning it into a dust cloud which destroys New Bizarro. Bizarro resumes courting Lois, until Lois creates a duplicate of herself so that Bizarro can have his own Bizarro-Lois.

  • The Abominable Snowman! · 5.67 pages
  • Supergirl Visits the 21st Century! · 6.67 pages

    Supergirl takes her first flight across the time-barrier from 1959 into the future, about a hundred years hence. She secretly observes a brilliant young orphan named Tommy on an asteroid orphanage. Tommy is told by the headmaster that a scientist and his wife have asked to adopt the boy with the best scientific mind, and he has been chosen. Supergirl ensures that the couple, the Tomorrows, make it to the orphanage successfully.

Reprinted in

The Adventures of Bob Hope (1950), Century, The 100 Page Comic Monthly (1956), 80 Page Giant Magazine (1964), Superman Presents Supergirl Comic (1973), The Superman Family (1974), Supergirl Archives (2001), Superman in the Fifties (2002), Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (2004), Showcase Presents: Superman (2005), Showcase Presents: Supergirl (2007), Supergirl: The Silver Age Omnibus (2016), Supergirl: The Silver Age (2017), Superman in the Fifties (2021), DC Finest: Supergirl: The Girl of Steel (2025)

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