The Battle With Bizarro (Part 1) After stealing the original plans used by Professor Dalton to build the Duplicator Ray and create Bizarre Superbly, Lex Luthor builds a new duplicator and, donning a disguise, tricks Superman into being irradiated with it, ostensibly to make Superman immune to krypronite.
Instead, per his real plan, Luthor creates a Bizarro Superman, one with which he hopes to command to destroy Superman. Luthor than reveals his identity and his plan to Superman. However, Bizarro refuses to accept Lurhor as his master and becomes angry at seeing that he is just as ugly as he was before.
Bizarro takes Luthor and his assistant to the police, where he scares the wits out of the chief. In an attempt to show he is not a monster, Bizarro rescues a plane about to crash, but when the passengers shriek in terror at him, Bizarro becomes so disheartened that he tries to kill himself.
Lois Lane goes out in the news copter with Jimmy Olson and her new Polaroid instant camera to get pictures of Bizarro. When Lois shrieks in wonder and amazement at seeing the picture develop instantly, Bizarro mistakes her words as admiration and love for him. He then tries desperately to woo Lois as his wife. Lois explains that Superman is the only man she could love.
Bizarro then hatches a plan to step in front of the duplicator ray to make an imperfect copy of himself - that is, one that is good looking, like the original Superman, and who will take ugly Bizarro's place in marrying LL. When this new Bizarro goes back to Lois, he professes his love for her and his desire to marry her. Lois, hornswoggled by handsome Bizarro, and oblivious to the fact that he still talk with lousy Bizarro grammar, melts into his arms.
When Superman flies in to rescue Lois, he is ambushed by ugly Bizarro with a huge hunk of green K. Lois, in the last panel of the story, agrees to marry "the real Superman"/handsome Bizarro, and lays a liplock on him. (To be continued.)
Congorilla Goes Wild As the story begins, Congo Bill is at a wax-works in Capetown, where a new Congo Bill wax figure has been created for display in the wax museum. Later, asleep at home, a burglar enters CB's room and finds the magic ring used to transform Congo Bill into Congorilla. For kicks, knowing of the legend of the ring, the burglar rubs the ring to see what will happen. To his astonishment he finds his mind transferred to the body of a gorilla. Realizing he must safeguard his body, which now possesses the intelligence of the gorilla, he goes back to Congo Bill's room to retrieve his body, but not before Congo Bill wakes up, notices the gorilla-man with his ring on his finger, and knocks him out cold.
Donning a mask so that the man-gorilla will not learn the identity of the owner of the ring, Congo Bill waits for the gorilla to come for the body. When it does Congo Bill follows him, hoping to get to an isolated area where he will be able to transform the burglar and the gorilla back to their natural state, and to retrieve the ring. The gorilla, however, manages to lose Congo Bill and goes out on a burglary spree.
Congo Bill catches up with burglar on a ship, where the burglar intends to sail to an ancient temple's ruins and its fabulous trove of treasure. With the gorilla's attention distracted by the fabulous loot, Congo Bill sneaks up with the burglar's body, and threatens to throw it off the cliff unless man-gorilla surrenders. Now at Congo Bill's mercy, the man-gorilla allows CB to rub the ring to allow for the transformation back to their natural state. The burglar (with his own mind now) finds himself tied up and in custody. We learn that, before the arrival of the gorilla in his room, Congo Bill had gone out to get a wax replica of the burglar's face made, and attached it to a dummy. It was this dummy which the gorilla had run off with, and which Congo Bill threatened to throw off the cliff.
Supergirl's Foster Parents In this story (the 3rd appearance of Supergirl), Supergirl, at Superman's insistence, is keeping her existence secret from the world until she has learned to use her super-powers with sufficient wisdom. Any super-hero deeds she performs are done secretly, without revealing her role in the act. Residing in an orphanage, under her assumed name of Linda Lee, she learns one day that a Mr. and Mrs. Dale want to adopt her. Not ready to go out into the world yet, Linda attempts to discourage the couple by showing them how inept she is. She uses her X-ray/heat vision to char a roast in the oven, but the plan backfires when the couple express delight at her cooking the roast just the way they like it.
Signing the adoption papers, under a 30-day trial period, the Dales take Linda to her new home, a big-top circus owned by the couple, and where Linda will be set up in a sideshow as "The Strong Girl." Mr. Dale shows Linda the props used to give the audience the illusion she has super-strength. Linda realizes the show is meant only for entertainment, and agrees this would be a fun way to make a living.
When her act is over, Linda becomes curious as to why Mrs. Dale is hurrying Linda away from the performance area. Using her powers to look back through the tent and to listen in on Mr. Dale in front of the crowd, Linda is heartbroken to learn that her new adoptive parents are actually snake-oil salesman, using her act as a means for selling a tonic which they claim gives her her amazing strength. She finds out the tonic is merely sugar water flavored with ginger, to give it a "power" kick.
Linda attempts to think up a plan to foil the Dales' act and to repay the customers' money. However, one day when an elephant stumbles and threatens to crush the Dales, Linda is forced to reveal her super-strength, in order to save the couple. When Mr. dale expresses astonishment at her super-strength, Linda explains that it must have happened as a result of a ginger-flavored pop she had drunk. Surprised to find out his tonic actually works, Mr. Dale rushes to see the chemist who concocted the drink, and offers him all the money he has, to buy the formula.
Mr. Dale discovers, later, that the drink does not work, but cannot go back to the chemist for fear that he will be turned in to the police for selling fake tonic. Linda, meanwhile, reveals to the reader that the chemist who got all of Mr. Dale's money was actually an elaborate puppet she fabricated so that the money woyld end up in her own hands, and utilizing her super-memory would surreptitiously return the money to every customer who had been suckered by Mr. Dale.
Now broke, the Dales are disqualified from adopting Linda, and the young girl returns to her life at the orphanage.
