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Bizarro-Lois

Bizarro-Lois

5 appearances · Silver Age · 1961–2018
Who is Bizarro-Lois?

Bizarro-Lois is an imperfect, inverted duplicate of Lois Lane, created through the same flawed duplication process that defines Bizarro World. She inhabits the cube-shaped planet Htrae alongside Bizarro and other backward counterparts of Superman's supporting cast.

A wonderfully offbeat corner of the Silver Age DC universe, Bizarro-Lois made her debut in Adventure Comics #290 in 1961, conjured up by the legendary Jerry Siegel and artist John Forte. She's the imperfect, backwards reflection of Lois Lane that only the delightfully twisted Bizarro World could produce, sharing her strange reality with the likes of Bizarro, Bizarro-Krypto, Bizarro-Jimmy Olsen, and Bizarro-Perry White — a whole topsy-turvy cast that makes her corner of the DC universe utterly unlike any other. Across appearances in Adventure Comics, Superman, and Superman: Tales of the Bizarro World, she's remained a charming emblem of Silver Age imagination at its most wonderfully weird. Rare in the catalog and steeped in that irreplaceable early-'60s DC whimsy, she's a genuine curiosity for collectors who love the stranger, sunnier side of comics history.

★ First appearance
Adventure Comics #290
Nov 1961

Top series

Covers through the years — 1961–2018

Adventure Comics #290 1961
Adventure Comics #290
Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #2 1985
Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #2
Superman: Tales of the Bizarro World #[nn] 2000
Superman: Tales of the Bizarro World #[nn]
Superman: The Amazing Transformations of Jimmy Olsen #[nn] 2007
Superman: The Amazing Transformations of Jimmy Olsen #[nn]
Superman #42 2018
Superman #42

Appearances

Adventure Comics (1938)
Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe (1985)
#2
Superman: Tales of the Bizarro World (2000)
Superman: The Amazing Transformations of Jimmy Olsen (2007)
Superman (2016)
#42