Today in Comics History: Unhappy Halloween! Or...AM it? (No. It am.)

Happy Bizarro Halloween! from the planet known as Htrae! (Pronounced "hu-tray.")


Panel from "The Halloween Pranks of the Bizarro-Supermen!" in Adventure Comics #294 (March 1962), script by Jerry Siegel, pencils and inks by John Forte
Then, Bizarro No. 1 joins his "buddie-pals" for Halloween celebrations. Say, shouldn't that be "enemy-foes?" Also, instead of join, shouldn't that be "tear apart?" And instead of "then," should it be, "before?" Man, Bizarro World confuses me with its half-assed approach to being completely in reverse.


Ah, the good old days when Bizarro World was off somewhere in the same cosmos as Earth-1. No, according to Multiversity, it's the alternate dimension of Earth-29! Or, at least it will until midnight tonight, when it all gets blown up by Rebirth. BOOM! The New DC Universe...there's no stopping us now...from trying to undo every story since 1935.

So, Happy Halloween, guys! Trick's on you!

Today in Comics History: Bizarro say "Me hate you, give me box of nasty chocolate."

Panel from "The Shame of the Bizarro Family!" in Adventure Comics #285 (June 1961), script by Jerry Siegel, pencils by Wayne Boring, inks by Stan Kaye

Bizarro not wish you Unhappy Old Year!

Panel from "The Shame of the Bizarro Family!" in Adventure Comics #285 (June 1961), script by Jerry Siegel, pencils by Wayne Boring, inks by Stan Kaye

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 290: This Comic Am Not Approved By the Bizarro Code

House ad for Superman #202 (December 1967-January 1968); printed in (top:) Batman #197 (December 1967); (bottom:) Green Lantern #57 (December 1967)
Comic cover art: pencils by Curt Swan, inks by George Klein, colors by Jack Adler (?), letters by Ira Schnapp
Ad designed and lettered by Ira Schnapp

Today in Comics History: Bizarro is not telling you to not have Unhappy Halloween from Bizarro World, or is he? Yes. He am not.

Panel from "Halloween Pranks of the Bizarro-Supermen" in Adventure Comics #294 (March 1962), script by Jerry Siegel, pencils and inks by John Forte
You know, I'd expect a Bizarro calendar to have more imaginary numbers and symbols, like May the Fish.

Because knowing is half the battle, you can read more about this wacky story in "Bizarro Back Issues: The Existential Dread of Halloween on Bizarro World" by pal Chris Sims on the late, lamented (but maybe soon life-bring-back-to) Comics Alliance . Remember: everything you knwo about Bizarro World is wrong. Because that am not way Bizarro World ain't.

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 118

This am not outside-of-the-house ad for World's Un-Finest Comics #156 (March 1966); not printed in Metamorpho #5 (March-April 1966)
Comic cover art am not penciled by Curt Swan or inked by Sheldon Moldoff, and definitely no letters by Ira Schnapp
Ad undesigned and unlettered by Bizarro-Ira Schnapp

Me think me not hate you

It is not Febroohairy 41, so Grumpy Bizarro New Year! Be unsure to go today at noon to New York Desert and watch cube rise!


This panel am not from "The Shame of the Bizarro Family!" in Adventure Comics #285 (June 1961), script unwrote by Jerry Siegel, pencils erased by Wayne Boring, uninked by Stan Kaye