Bizarro No. 1

Few characters capture the gloriously weird heart of Silver Age DC Comics quite like Bizarro No. 1, who stumbled into existence in 1961's Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #50 under the pen of Al Plastino. An enduring fixture of the DC Universe across an remarkable six-plus decades, this backwards, imperfect figure has kept extraordinary company — sharing pages with Superman, Clark Kent, Supergirl, Green Lantern, and The Flash — a who's-who of DC's finest that speaks to just how deeply embedded Bizarro No. 1 is in the publisher's mythology. A fixture of the Superman titles and even immortalized in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe, this character is practically a cornerstone of the Silver Age's joyful, anything-goes imagination. With a key collector issue to their name and a presence stretching all the way to 2025, Bizarro No. 1 is living proof that DC's strangest ideas often become its most beloved.