The Man of Steel No. 5

The Man of Steel #5 Date: 1986 Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: 75¢ 2013 NM Price: $4.00 Stats: 23 color pages plus 12 page "Mask" insert and ads Writer & Penciller: John Byrne Other Artists: Dick Giordano, John Costanza, Tom Ziuko Notable Notes: The origin of Bizarro! Are There Any Good Clones? Why is it that in science fiction in general, and comics specifically, the cloning process always seems to have some fatal flaw? Has no big-brained superhero figured out how to correctly do it yet? C'mon people - we can clone sheep here in the "normal" world why can't you folks clone a fantastic superhero of unknown origins? Sheesh! ;-) Synopsis: In The Man of Steel #4 we see how Superman and Lex Luthor become enemies. This issue plays off that and gives us the story of how Lex tricks Superman in to coming to his labs so he can scan his DNA - which he then uses as a template for his own, home-grown version of Superman! Mwa-ha-ha-ha... such evilness! But there's one little problem - Superman…

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