Superman ! Issue #154 ! Mr. Mxyzptlk Appearance ! Silver Age Comic from 1962 ! by DC Comics !

Title: Superman

Author(s): Curt Swan, Edmond Hamilton

Publisher: DC Comics

Date: 1962

First Printing: YES

Comic Age: Silver Age

Issue: #154


In the 5th Dimension it's getting time for the Academy of Practical Joking to announce their annual Brxll Awards, to award the best practical joker in the dimension. With stiff competition, Mr. Mxyzptlk wishes to succeed as opposed to winning yet another Booby Prize. He thinks back to all the times that Superman has thwarted him in the past by tricking him into saying his name backwards and comes up with a solution: If he can't be made to say the word because there is no air, then he could go on playing pranks on Superman endlessly and surely win the Brxll award.

On Earth, Superman is called to an odd occurrence; somehow, sailing ships have been made to fly and airplanes to sail on the water. Suspecting his old foe Mr. Mxyzptlk, Superman locates him hanging out in the outskirts of Lori Lemaris' Atlantis. Lori commands sealife to spell Mxyzptlk's name backwards, but this fails as Mxyzptlk cannot speak while immersed in water. Mxyzptlk then mocks Superman by turning a submarine into a giant banana with Kltpzyxm written on it and purposely tries to read it to show that he cannot do so under water.

Mxyzptlk's next prank has all the grown-ups in Metropolis behaving like children. Superman attempts to thwart Mxyzptlk by having everyone sing a song that has the word Kltpzyxm in the lyrics. This once more fails as Mxyzptlk is under a fountain and it's water prevents him from talking.

For his next trick, Mxyzptlk makes all the animals on Earth able to speak English, which most people dismiss as hoaxes. Superman finds Mxyzptlk in a pond and once more tries to get him to say his name backwards. When this fails, Superman says that he's fed up and retreats to the Moon where he vows to stay until Mr. Mxyzptlk goes back to his home dimension. Not finished mocking the Man of Steel, Mxyzptlk travels to the Moon where he mocks Superman further by trying to say his name backwards in the airless void. Superman finally gains the upper hand when he uses his x-ray vision to free some oxygen trapped in the Moons rock that creates enough of an atmosphere that when Mxyzptlk says his name backwards again it is actually heard and he is shunted back to the 5th Dimension.

Adding insult to injury, when Mxyzptlk arrives home, he is not awarded a Bxrll award, but the hated Booby Prize for the fourth time in a row.


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