Bizarro-Lois No. 1

Bizarro-Lois No. 1 is an imperfect duplicate of Lois Lane created by the Bizarro duplicator ray, inhabiting the cube-shaped Bizarro World where flawed copies of Superman and his world live by a backwards code that prizes ugliness and imperfection.

Few characters capture the gloriously strange spirit of Silver Age DC quite like Bizarro-Lois No. 1, who first stumbled onto the scene in Adventure Comics #290 in 1961, conjured by the legendary Jerry Siegel and artist John Forte. A product of that wonderfully weird era when DC reveled in its most delightfully absurdist conceits, she has kept remarkable company over the decades — sharing pages with Superman, Clark Kent, and heavy-hitters like Green Lantern, The Flash, and Hawkman. Her strongest foothold in the catalog is the beloved Bizarro Comics line, that celebration of DC's most delightfully off-kilter corner of the universe, and the fact that she's still turning up as recently as 2021 — a full sixty years after her debut — speaks to the enduring charm of Bizarro-world's imperfect mirror on DC mythology. If you love Silver Age oddities with genuine staying power, she's a character worth seeking out.