{"id":3274,"date":"2021-02-22T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2021-01-18T17:27:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T01:27:26","slug":"584-not-bizarro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/584-not-bizarro\/","title":{"rendered":"584 &#8211; Not Bizarro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/not-bizarro-1.png\" alt=\"A panel from Action Comics #199, October 1954\" class=\"wp-image-3275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/not-bizarro-1.png 620w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/not-bizarro-1-300x272.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Action Comics #199, October 1954<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In &#8220;The Phantom Superman!&#8221; from Action Comics #199 (October 1954), Luthor creates a living duplicate of Superman with a &#8220;three-dimensional materializer&#8221; and an &#8220;atomic transformer&#8221;.  This duplicate is completely grey, lacking in color, but has all of Superman&#8217;s abilities for a few hours until the charge wears out.  Luthor then sends the duplicate out into the world to commit crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/not-bizarro-2.png\" alt=\"Another panel from Action Comics #199, October 1954\" class=\"wp-image-3276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/not-bizarro-2.png 584w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/not-bizarro-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/not-bizarro-2-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><figcaption>Another panel from Action Comics #199, October 1954<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Superman eventually does battle with this evil phantom duplicate and we get to see some action sequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"424\" height=\"852\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/not-bizarro-3.png\" alt=\"Yet another panel from Action Comics #199, October 1954\" class=\"wp-image-3277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/not-bizarro-3.png 424w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/not-bizarro-3-149x300.png 149w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><figcaption>Yet another panel from Action Comics #199, October 1954<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, Superman outwits the duplicate and Luthor by holding it under water until its charge ran out, then dressing up like the duplicate so it could find Luthor via the control beam he was using.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;The Phantom Superman!&#8221; from Action Comics #199 (October 1954), Luthor creates a living duplicate of Superman with a &#8220;three-dimensional materializer&#8221; and an &#8220;atomic transformer&#8221;. 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Luthor then sends the duplicate out into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[547,562,14,139,43],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-547","tag-bizarro","tag-dc","tag-luthor","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3278,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions\/3278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}