Bizarro No. 1

Created when Superman was accidentally duplicated by a Bizarro machine, this imperfect, chalk-white copy became Bizarro No. 1 — a well-meaning but backwards mirror of the Man of Steel, hailing from the cube-shaped Bizarro World where imperfection is the ideal.

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.