Creating Composite Counterparts

An endeavor in our research of the DC Multiverse is to explore the various facets of the parallel planets known as Earths One and Two, and this includes locating all doppelgängers on each world. For several, this is straightforward for virtual carbon copies, for heroes such as the Batmen, and villains such as the Jokers. For some, this is still relatively easy, for those such as the Hawkmen and Hawkwomen who have different appearances. For others, this is based upon powers and aliases such as the Flashes aka Barry Allen and Jay Garrick.

Then there are the few prominent protagonists and amoral antagonists on Earth-One who initially seem unique, with no direct comparisons on Earth-Two. However, upon further examination, we can ascertain a few upon deeper analysis. Consider, for example, Matt Hagen. The second man to use the alias of Clayface, his predecessor was former movie star turned criminal Basil Karlo. In fact, there was a Karlo/Clayface on both Earths... yet Matt only existed on Earth-One.

However, a crook named Bart Megan existing on Earth-Two adopted the alter ego of Doctor No-Face. Having a similar modus operandi, along with appearance altering abilities, it seemed this one-hit wonder could be his world's version of the second Clayface. His placement on Earth-Two was verified in the Batman Encyclopedia, published as an authoritative work on the characters related to the Batman mythos. 

And decades later, another man with similar criminal intent using the alias of Graham Peake had... like Megan... adopted a profession as a doctor, and also like Matt had sought to synthetically alter his body mass into different shapes. When encountering Batman's daughter, the Huntress, Peake in fact was transformed into a form similar to Hagen when he was Clayface II. And so, we connect the dots, and hypothesize that Bart "Doctor No-Face" Megan and Graham Peake are one in the same person... and his world's version of the second Clayface.

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Another specimen for consideration Toby "Terra Man" Manning, a time-displaced outlaw cowboy from the 1800s who arrived in 20th century Metropolis on Earth-One to repeatedly battle Superman. Employing a variety of advanced weaponry, which Manning inherited from the alien criminal who adopted him after slaying his father, Terra-Man posed a serious threat to the Man of Steel. During one adventure, Toby encountered a counterpart from another universe, a Terra-Man from a world without a Superman.

Yet prior to this, Superman found himself at odds on Earth-One with another time-lost (and universe displaced) rogue, pirate captain Ezra Hawkins... the ancestor of Inza Nelson of Earth-Two! This man appeared similar to Manning, and also using a variety of special weaponry against the Kryptonian caped crusader.

Decades earlier, another man named Sir Traytor battled Shining Knight. This was an immortal villains from the days of Camelot, and in fact during that ancient period the Superman of Earth-Two had battled a Dark Knight who bore a striking resemblance to both Ezra Hawkins! And so, we connect the dots that the Dark Knight gained immortality as Sir Traytor, eventually assuming the alias of Ezra Hawkins in the 1500s, and reappearing in the 1940s to battling Shining Knight!

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Then there was the benevolent Professor Potter, the inventive absent minds uncle of the Earth-One Lana Lang. He had developed a wide range of technologies and gadgets, including a version of the imperfect duplicator that could transform Bizarro clones into humans. He even spawned a Bizarro version of himself. On Earth-Two, the failed cartoonist Funny Face developed the bio-ray, which could animate comic strip characters bringing them to life. Both attempts at defeating his world's Superman with various fabricated foes... including a duplicate of the Man of Steel named Flying Tiger... met with defeat.

Decades later, a kindly physician who developed a duplication ray saved Jimmy Olsen's life, by cloning an organ provided to him by Jimmy's Earth-One counterpart. Connecting these two individuals with the similar bio-ray... Funny Face who wanted to bring cartoons to life and the physician who saved lives... we hypothesize that this former criminal turned doctor was the Phineas Potter of Earth-Two!

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Finally, we consider the counterpart to the most persistent foe the Justice League ever faced. That adversary Doctor Destiny, was originally a sinister scientist who developed a device that could fabricate dreams into reality called the Materiopikon. After four failed forays versus the League, the Doctor was incarcerated for a number of years, before finally being released from prison in his skeletal state. Caused by his lack of dreams, taken from him by a psychologist employed by the League to strip Destiny of his deadly device, this left him criminally insane.

His doppelgänger was Doctor Elba aka Professor Able, a rogue researcher mentally manipulated by fellow felonious scientist Doctor Henry “Brain Wave” King. Using his Solution K, which corrupted those injected with the chemical concoction, Elba hatched a criminal scheme that was ultimately thwarted by the Justice Society. However, soon after, Elba adopted another alias as he became the second "Painter of Death" who preyed upon painter Pierre Antal's victims for profit. Like the original Painter, a socialite named Wylie, Elba committed suicide after his scheme was exposed by the Dark Knight Detective!

These are but a few examples of tying together lose ends throughout the history of Earth-Two, and seemingly one-time characters, to form a more complete picture given a modern lens. A persistent belief had been that this world, in contrast to its contemporary Earth-One, was devoid of many key characters. Upon further examination, there is a richer legacy to be drawn from carefully dissecting tales from the various decades of publishing within the DC Comics Multiverse!

Synthetic Supermen Simulate Stupendous Stories

In 1942, a failed cartoonist invented a bio-ray, which he used to bring cartoons of his competitors to life. Calling  himself Funny Face, this man sought vengeance for not being recognized as a talented artist, and sought ill-gotten wealth which his animated creations had stolen for him. Despite this, the golden age Superman was able to defeat he and his manufactured minions. The technology behind his bio-ray would be used soon after with the goal of exposing the Earth-Two hero's secret identity of Clark Kent!

Something similar happened on Earth-One, when Lex Luthor rebuilt a duplication projector, which created an imperfect non-living version of Superman. Known as Bizarro, this creature repeatedly pestered his “twin” Kal-El… while using the duplicator to create Bizarro versions of Lois Lane, Perry White, Luthor and others. They ended up migrating to the squire world of Htrae. Eighteen of their Tales of Bizarro World would be told.

A series of seventeen (actually eighteen, including a published tale in Superman #19 that also saw the debut of Funny Face) animated shorts regarding fictional tales of a cartoon version of Superman were brought to life*. This character had the same backstory as Kal-L, and because the projector which brought him to “life” was similar to the bio-ray, he imitated aspects of Superman’s history. The creator of this medium, writer Jerry Siegel, was also the mastermind behind Funny Face. In these shorts, besides Kal-L, there was a Lois Lane, Perry White, a recurring Mad Scientist foe and others. Why Siegel sought to reveal Superman’s secret identity as Clark Kent to fellow reporter Lois, and the world, is unknown. But then, he tended to do that in stories.

It had been theorized that the mystery man behind the mask of Funny Face was Siegel himself, and Superman admitted that the man who conceived the animated tales was also Siegel. This pseudo-Superman was similar to the “handsome” Bizarro which the original created as an “imperfect” version** of himself to date Lois. Just as this second Bizarro had a short lifespan, so too had Funny Face’s later duplicate of Superman, the Flying Tiger (who a now married Clark and Lois created as a cover alias for Superman to help him versus a foe).

* This animated Superman was seen interacting with his real life template, Clark Kent, at the end of his second theatrical tale.

** As film reels are duplicated and distributed to multiple movie theaters across America and later the world, the synthetic sentient Supermen and Lois Lanes in each of these mirrored the additional Bizarro Supermen and Lois Lane clones on Htrae.

Funny Faced Friends, Fiends, Foils, & Foibles

Professor Potter, the well-intentioned yet absent minded uncle of Lana Lang, provided many misguided adventures for his friends and family due to his bizarre inventions. The one most effected by his dabblings into the scientific mysteries of the universe was undoubtedly his young associate, Jimmy Olsen. And Potter's golden age counterpart was likewise a source of trouble on occasion.

Among the most successful creations of Potter's was the serum that allowed Jimmy to transform himself into the stretching superhero: Elastic-Lad. 

Prior to this, the Professor unleashed his z-rays on Olsen, transforming the lad into villain Future-Jimmy with mental abilities... which he soon thereafter reversed. Another time, a pill thought to cure a toothache, turned Jimmy into a giant! Potter had previously spawned an evil clone of Jimmy Olsen, and later still would transform Olsen himself into a bizarro much like his own imperfect duplicate Bizarro Jimmy on planet Thrae. Eventually, while on that world, Jimmy used the duplicator ray that initially created duplicates of Superman's friends and foes on Potter, creating a Bizarro Professor Potter who reversed the process, returning Jimmy to his normal humanoid appearance again.

In fact, on the square shaped homeworld of the Bizarros, there were several familiar if hideously disfigured faces beside Jimmy. Some were Bizarro-Lex Luthor, Bizarro-Joker and Bizarro-Titano. These mirrored the villains brought to psuedo-life by the Earth-Two Potter, aka Funny Face, to rob for him. These were Machine Gun Mike, Viper and a lizard giant... all based on comic strip characters Funny Face's bio-ray brought to life. And in fact, shortly after this first caper, Funny Face reappeared behind the scenes to produce a series of Superman-themed cartoons, where synthetic two-dimensional Supermen and Lois Lanes had a series of adventures in their own virtual reality, scenes by audiences across the United States.

To combat these, Lois Lane slyly activated the device while captured by the criminal, and brought to life comic strip heroes that mimic different persona's of Earth-One Jimmy Olsen. Among these was the red-and-yellow costume clad hero Streak Dugan, who like Jimmy's Kandorian alter ego of the masked red-and-yellow clad Flamebird, came equiped with advanced gadgets to fight the forces of evil. Each comic character could grow large, just like Jimmy as Elastic Lad and during his gigantic Turtle Boy phases.

Perhaps the most dangerous villains that Potter and Funny Face unleashed on their respective Earths was the medieval malcontents known as Krogg and Torgo. While Earth-One was saved from Krogg thanks to the combined efforts of both Supermen, the original Superman on Earth-Two enlisted the aid of the caped knight Prince Peril, a more noble psuedo-personage than the dark knight Bizarro Batman whom modern Superman encountered.

Lifeless Lois Lanes Love Legend's Likeness

Lois Lane was always near her one true love Superman, so when copies of him were made, another version of her would likewise stick closer to the alien she adored. Bizarro number one, the imperfect duplication of Superman, sought to fill the void in his life with others of his kind. To that end, he made several duplicates of hiimself who were all equally lifeless and imperfect, expressing an opposite point of view from the original Kryptonitan whom they were cloned from. Similarly, Bizarro used the same imperfect duplicator ray that spawned him and his twins to create matching mates in Lois Lanes. 

One of these, deemed Lois Lane number one, became his wife and together they would eventually have a son in Bizarro Junior. On occasion, the Bizarro family and particularly the original would visit Earth-One and interact with their living counterparts, much to the dismay of the real persons whom they were modeled after due to their warped logic and propensity to create problems for them.

In like fashion, on Earth-Two in a separate universe, there was a lifeless although perfect copy created of Superman. Or, to be more precise, a clone of his villianous alter ego... the Flying Tiger... whom the caped crusader used in order to locate the mysterious supplier of deadly Kryptonite to various criminal gangs in Metropolis, which Superman had repeatedly encoutered. After defeating the mastermind behind this distribution network in the Tycoon of Crime, Superman retired the Tiger. 

However, sometime after this the levitating larcenous Tiger reappeared and summarily defeated Superman in battle. Recognizing an artist's signature on his foe's boot, Superman knew that this Flying Tiger was an enlarged version of an artistic rendering in the Daily Star. In order to  ensnare his faux foe, Superman had his wife Lois Lane Kent resume her own double identity as Kitty, the former henchwoman of his Flying Tiger. She then revealed to Tiger and to his creator and master, failed artist turned inventor Funny Face, the location of Kryptonite which could render Superman powerless. However, when Flying Tiger attempted to steal these meteorites from Metropolis' police headquarters, he himself was rendered inert as he not only had the same strength but also weakness of Superman. 

Enraged by this, Funny Face turned Kitty into a two-dimensional lifeless drawing with his bio-ray, which he had done a decade earlier. This same ray that can animate drawings also had a reverse effect on humans. Thankfully as he had done previously, Superman saved Lois leaving Kitty a mere drawing like the Tiger. Another synthetic version of Lois Lane appeared in the animated Superman Fleischer cartoons shortly after Funny Face first appeared in 1942, brought to life on 2-dimensional screens by a projector similar to the bio-ray originating from Funny Face’s alter ego Jerry Siegel.

Pesky Potters Propagate Problematic Phonies

Professor Phineas Potter was an eccentric yet good-natured scientist who became an acquaintence of fellow Smallville resident Superboy. The maternal uncle of Lana Lang, herself a childhood friend of Superboy and his alter ego Clark Kent. His counterpart was an aspiring yet vengeful cartoonist who first met his world's Superman and Lois Lane when first utilizing his invention under his criminal alias of Funny Face.

Potter would cause some complications in the life of Superman as he had when the hero was just a lad, although the two remained good friends. Phineas also began associating with reporters Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen of the Daily Planet. For the latter, Potter's various experiments caused a wide range of bodily transformations, including a serum Phineas developed that allowed Olsen's body to elongate as the Elastic Lad, as well as one that inflated his body into a "fat Jimmy" variation. However, the device that caused Jimmy the most grief was his normalizer ray, a device developed to humanize Bizarros. In this instance, it worked although the effects had an opposite effect on the young red-haired photo-journalist.

In fact, another scientist years earlier developed the original duplication ray that created an imperfect liveless version of Superboy. This clone tragically perished, only years later to be revived by Lex Luthor as an adult Bizarro Superman. Feeling himself alone as a freak on Earth-One, Bizarro journeyed to an abandoned world and used a duplicator ray to create a companion for himself in Bizarro Lois Lane, as well as several copies of both himself and Lois. Eventually, their existence came to the attention of Professor Potter, who after developing his normalizer ray had projected its beams upon a Jimmy Olsen wearing a bizarro mask as a practical joke to scare his scientific friend. Now, both physically and mentally, Jimmy became like his imperfect duplicate, a Bizarro! Now living in exile on Thrae, the Bizarro World, was their hope for him?

The Earth-Two Phineas Potter adopted the alias of Funny Face after failing to fullfill his first dream of being a successful cartoonist. As an inventor, however, he was highly successful... having developed a bio-ray that could bring to life characters from various comic strips. Such villains as the Martian villain Torgo, the gangster Machine-Gun Mike, the criminal cowboy Black Raider, the bald giant Torgo, and the sinister schemer known as the Viper. Also produced were various henchmen aiding these artificial life forms. 

Eventually, with the aid of Lois Lane, the Earth-Two Superman vanquished Funny Face allied with his fictional foes' heroic adversary in Streak Dugan, Detective Craig, Solitary Rider, Prince Peril and Happy Daze. However, Funny Face still lived, and created a clone of Superman's Flying Tiger alias, who also was defeated. Although twice using his bio-ray on Lois to transform her into a lifeless illustration, each time Superman was able to revive her. Similarly, an imperfect Bizarro clone of Professor Potter was able to develop a reverse-normalizer ray, restoring Earth-One Jimmy to his human form!

On one occasion, Potter accidentally activated a transdimensional portal in the Justice League satellite, previously damaged and yet to be repaired, which had unleashed a creature from the  limbo trans-dimensional realm of Limbo. Theorizing that a merged Superman of Earths One and Two could defeat this entity, he aided both Supermen in accomplishing this feat for a limited time, and in fact the two Supermen-in-one were able to vanquish the beast and thus save Earth-One. The Earth-Two Superman had initially traveled to Earth-One to recruit that world's Jimmy Olsen into returning to his world, where Olsen's older counterpart needed an organ transplant. A reformed Funny Face, now a physician, used his bio-ray to create a duplicate organ from Jimmy-One... to be transplanted into Olsen-Two.

The Men who aided Jimmy Olsen aka Mister Action

Jimmy Olsen, both Jimmys actually, were young hotshot reporters for their respective Metropolis' biggest newspapers. As on Earth-One with the Daily Planet, so on Earth-Two at the Daily Star... many of these paper's most celebrated stories were penned by these two red-headed youths. And while they owed their success in part to the Supermen, they also were aided in their quest for the truth... and in fact their very survival, to the Professor Phineas Potter of their twin world's. While these two men had divergent paths, they ended up mirroring one another in life.

The Earth-One Professor Potter was a well-intentioned yet absent minded uncle of Lana Lang, provided many misguided adventures for his friends and family due to his bizarre inventions. Among the most successful creations of Potter's was the serum that allowed Jimmy to transform himself into the stretching superhero: Elastic-Lad. He also developed a variation of the duplication machine, which had originally been created by another scientist that spawned Bizarro clones of Superman and other individuals. 

The Earth-Two Professor Potter was originally an aspiring cartoonist who developed a bio-ray that could duplicate fictional characters and turn them into 3-dimensional characters, including Superman's alter ego of Flying Tiger. After a couple forays into felony as Funny Face, Potter retired from his criminal career and turned his desire to bring things to life into a career as a physician. Years later, he modified his bio-ray to enable him to duplicate organs, which he used to clone an organ of the younger Jimmy Olsen of Earth-One to save his world's Olsen. Interestingly, it was while that Jimmy still had the Elastic-Lad serum in his veins, and so this now was a part of Earth-Two Jimmy's physiology, although there was no record of the older Olsen becoming an "Elastic-Man".

Warped Weird Wonders of Wrongdoing: Crazy Clone Cronies

Htrae was a reformed planet formed as a warped version of Earth-One, where Bizarro and his race of artificial men lived for a few years. Initially just the original, when he first created an imperfect Lois Lane and then other imperfect inorganic beings, changed his name to Bizarro Number One being their progenitor. As Superman's complete opposite, this creature and his fellows caused more chaos than the norm. While initially, Number One and his fellows seemed hostile to the Man of Steel and humans in general, even going to war with them at one point, the invention of Blue Kryptonite seemed to keep the Bizarros at a respectful distance. Nevertheless, there were periods when humans and Bizarros interacted.

Funny Face did much the same while remaining on Earth-Two, breathing a form of sentience into replicas of cartoon strip characters, culminating in his final creation of Flying Tiger. Like Bizarro, the Tiger was a non-living mirror image of his world's Superman, although in this case replicating the hero's crooked alter ego during a period when that hero was trying to locate Metropolis' underworld's crime kingpin. However, Flying Tiger never had occasion to journey to his universe's version of Htrae, a world designed to replicate Earth-Two by the evil Kryptonian known as Mala years before.

For a brief period, it seemed as if the Flying Tiger was the perfect foil for Superman, unlike his imperfect Bizarro twin a universe away. Replicating all of Superman's powers plus the ability to grow large, turn immaterial and teleport away... his powers came close to equaling Earth-One's Composite Superman in some regards, who had the combined abilities of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Still, his susceptibility to Green Kryptonite proved the Tiger's downfall, leading to his exile back into the two-dimensional existence from which he came.

Funny Face's folks included villains Viper, Torgo, Machine-Gun Mike, Goola and the Black Raider. Also among the ranks of these pseudo citizens was Happy Daze, Prince Peril, Detective Craig, Streak Dugan and the Solitary Rider... as well as for a time Kitty aka Lois' Flying Tiger sidekick. While all of these entities have only brief periods of existence in the three-dimensional world, they continue on as they had for an untold period in the fictional realm of the Daily Star's comic strips with several supporting characters to interact with in each of their imaginary realms. Funny Face and his counterpart Professor Phineas Potter with their crazed-clone creating rays caused the Supermen headaches with lifeless duplicates of themselves in addition to various other warped versions of famous people spawned from their devices.

As to the Bizarro Earth, what is known is that eventually, it became the basis of the parallel world of Earth-Zero. This world, modeled after Htrae that Mister Mxyzptlk destroyed only a few years after its creation just prior to the Crisis on Infinite Earths, had its own faux versions of heroes and villains originating on Earth-One. Proof of its existence came to light when Alex Luthor of Earth-Three recreated the multiverse including its individual Earths, which materialized this Zero world in a vibratory frame of existence.

The technology Funny Face developed on Earth-Two had been used previously by Professor Anderson, who used his own version of the bio-ray on Batman and Robin as they adventured in a world populated by replicas of fairy tale fictional beings.

Another such device was employed for untold decade by the Soldiers of the Secret City, although after their encounter with the Flash and his associate Doctor Maria Flura, word got out to this potentially dangerous people and their ability to multiple forces.

Spurred on by this, Professor Lexon encourage Flura to join him in developing a replica of the Secret City image duplicator, which he then used to fake his own death. In so doing, he created image clones of Flash's girlfriend Joan Williams, Maria, himself and several of the Secret City soldiers. Previously, Flash himself encountered three of his own clones, as had an aged journalist who first found the city.

The golden age Hawkman had himself encountered a synthetic pseudo life form known as Czar  Sculptor Boris Nickaloff devises a special clay which he molds into the form of what he labels the "Un-Killable Man" which he mentally controls for his unspecified misdeeds.

Aware of this activity by a curious Winged Wonder, the hero battles Czar and is initially defeated by his pale foe. Shortly thereafter, Czar seeks out Sheila Sanders, whom his master appears to be attracted to, and for which Hawkman is engaged to in his civilian alter ego. Defeating both Nickaloff and his creation, the latter of whom he strangles in order to step him, the secret to Czar's genesis remains as his master perishes. Unlike Czar, the Bizarro Hawkman modeled after the Earth-One version is a dutiful member of planet Htrae's Justice League of Bizarros, and initially dies when he and his colleagues as well as their entire race are absorbed into an Amazo Bizarro, although later they are all brought back to their pseudo-life once more.

Chief among those on Htrae was Bizarro's close "friends" of Lois, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White and Krypto as well as his "colleagues" in the Bizarro League of Batzarro, Hero the flash, Yellow Lantern and imitations of Aquaman, Hawkman and Wonder Woman. Then there were the "law-breakers" of Lex Luthor, Joker, Kltpzyxm and Amazo. Not to mention the Legion of other Bizarro Supermen and Lois Lanes populating the planet.

Yellow Lantern, the imperfect clone of Earth-One's Green Lantern, had a doppleganger in the equally lifeless and clueless Grundy Lantern, when Earth-Two's Solomon Grundy inflected his arch enemy Green Lantern in the chemicals of Slaughter Swamp. This transformed evil GL battled Fate while Fate's Green Lantern energy clone battled the original Grundy. Eventually, both pseudo-Lanterns were erased.

Other synthetic creations such as Alphonse Peckabit’s fictional felons used against the Flash, such as Strongman, Peg Leg and Hot Stuff, were Earth-Two versions of the Bizarro clones of Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Amazo. 

Bizarre Baddies - Creepy Clones - Demented Duplicates

One of the core staples of comics is an opposite number or evil twin. In the late 1950's DC Comics hit upon this theme and developed an entire planet of these type of creatures with a catch, they were the imperfect duplicates of established characters. Only this wasn't a new concept, it was already explored previously and would be once more years later, as we shall see.

On Earth-One, Professor Dalton developed a duplicator ray which created a distorted doppleganger of Superboy, soon after destroyed. Years later, Lex Luthor recreated this device and spawned the pale jagged-skinned Bizarro, and from this template derived a whole civilization. Originally mirrored after this Bizarro Superman #1 and his mate Bizarro Lois Lane #1, after creating several of their own duplicates the original decided to build his own copies of some of Superman's closest friends like Jimmy Olsen and Perry White, and bitterest foes. Htrae was a square shaped world otherwise resembling Earth which Superman created as an act of penance on one occasion. He even went so far as to create a Bizarro Justice League with a Batman, Hawkman, Aquaman, Flash aka "Hero", and Yellow Lantern... as well as some of Superman's greatest enemies including Lex Luthor, the Joker, Kltpzym and Amazo. These beings were not carbon-based life forms yet had sentience based on perverse reverse logic, deriving their matter from another reality. Earth-Two analogues would be Flying Tiger, a Fairy Tale Batman, Secret City Flash clones, Grundy Lantern, and various others. On Earth-Two, there were also non-living animated “proxies” of Alexei Luthor, Mister Mxyztplk, and Prankster as well as a faux-Lois Lane

On Earth-Two, a criminal known only as Funny Face replicated a bio-ray projector original created by Professor Anderson which Batman encountered previously, a projector which was capable of creating pseudo three-dimensional life to imaginary characters illustrated by others Utilizing this to create a gang consisting of fictional felons Torgo, Machine-Gun Mike, the Black Rider, Goola and the Viper who all plundered Metropolis. Each was confronted by Superman, and each time the malevolent mastermind's gigantic Funny Face clones appeared to torment the hero. Meanwhile, reporter Lois Lane tracked down the culprit behind these creatures, a disgruntled failure of a cartoonist who nevertheless had exceptional genius in devising the device behind these deviants. Eventually tipping Superman off as to Funny Faces' location, and that of his captured girlfriend, the Man of Steel was confronted by all five menaces. Helping her hero once more, Lois turned the projector on the same newspaper pages to bring to life these criminals' arch-enemies in Prince Peril, Detective Craig, Solitary Rider, Streak Dugan and Happy Daze which defeated their foes. While Lane was transformed by Face into an image on a page, she was revived much as Bizarro-Lois came to "life" decades later a universe away.

A decade later, Funny Face returned with an animated illustrated depiction of Superman's criminal alter ego, Flying Tiger. This was an alias used by the Metropolis Marvel to discover the source of the underworld's Kryptonite, and as such several staged thefts over the new few weeks until he earned the trust of the mysterious kingpin known as Mister K. After the disguised Clark and Lois Kent turned the tables on the crimelord, the pair thought that Flying Tiger's crooked career had concluded. However, when shortly thereafter the faux-Tiger continued in his predecessor's steps, the Bizarro of Earth-Two was born! As before, Funny Face was defeated as was his Superman-clone, who was susceptible to green Kryptonite, and like its "brothers" was returned to the newspaper from whence it came.  Although, as before, Lois was transformed into a two-dimensional creature before being revived.

Similarly, not to many years after the Bizarros were created, Mr. Mxyzptlk returned to Earth-One's universe and merged with an entity known as Aethyr. These two proceeded to devastate Htrae while destroying all Bizarros as well. However, there was apparently a pre-Crisis Earth-Zero that replicated Htrae with the same Bizarro inhabitants residing on it. It is quite possible and most probable that Mxyzptlk/Aethyr used its inter-dimensional abilities of the Phantom Zone to recreate these creatures in this pocket reality, in much the same way Earth-Two's Thunderbolt spawned the Lawless League of Earth-A. This Lawless team was a twisted mirror image of Earth-One's Justice league, whom the Justice Society battled. And both Bizarro and Lawless Leagues would be counterparts to Earth-Three's criminal Crime Syndicate, as well, wherein good was replaced with evil and evil with good.