Bizarro's World Conclusion

This is the end of Bizarro for the 90's, but the conflict between Lex Luthor, CADMUS, and the Underworld continues to escalate.  We learn all of the opposing factions are really being manipulated by a mastermind in the shadows.  And Superman's powers continue to increase, but that's only causing him more problems.

Superman: The Man of Steel #32

Bizarro's World part 4

Superman carries the unconscious Bizarro back to Metropolis, but the monster awakens and breaks free from his grasp to try to get back to Lois Lane.  Bizarro finds an over-sized engagement ring display at a jewelry store and steals it to propose to Lois.  Lois feels sympathy for the poor creature who seems to be trying to imitate her fiance.  Seeing that Bizarro is drawn to her, the Guardian asks Lois to bait Bizarro into a trap.  She reluctantly agrees as long as the monster is unharmed, but after they capture him Lex Luthor II arrives on the scene, his face concealed in his battle armor, to claim his creation as if it were a piece of property.

Superman #88

Bizarro's World part 5

A balding, withering Lex Luthor II communicates remotely to his worker's with a CGI illusion of a healthy version of himself on the monitor.  Outside, Superman flies Lois Lane to LexCorp to save Bizarro.  Superman's powers have increased so much he doesn't realize his own strength, flying so fast that Lois can't breathe and accidentally tossing Lex's security guards off the roof when he only meant to push them aside.

Lois and Superman find Bizarro inside being experimented on by an Happersen, who's still recovering from his injuries last month.  A LexCorp worker in a full-body suit extracts tissue from Bizarro, and the monster starts to die in Lois' arms.  Before Happersen and the other man can retrieve the extracted cure, however, Bizarro blasts the computer with his heat vision and dies.  The other man laments that they were so close and Lois removes his mask to reveal the dying Lex Luthor.  Superman has no choice but to fly a container of toxic chemicals away from the laboratory fire before it kills everybody in Metropolis.  The chemicals explode in orbit and Superman immediately feels something is different, he feels he's changing and getting bigger.

Adventures of Superman #511

Rushing back to Earth, Superman thinks the entire city has been leveled.  His vision deceives him, and after he flies through a building he realizes his powers are out of control and he was just looking through the buildings.  He offers to turn himself in to Inspector Sawyer, but she hints that she has a sick friend who needs to see a doctor before he locks himself away and hopes to get better.  Professor Hamilton examines the Man of Steel and they begin to figure out that the problem started because of the radiation he absorbed in Engine City.  The Eradicator had instantly recharged Superman, but now his powers will keep increasing until his body can no longer contain them.

Lois continues to write her story about LexCorp, unaware that Lex Luthor can also see what she writes on her LexCorp computer.

Dabney Donavan continues to spy on CADMUS as Lex Luthor (again projecting a CGI image) has a video call with Director Westfield.  Superman visits the sick Newsboy Legion clones, but then CADMUS is suddenly attacked by more Underworld clones.  But just as the rampage of the dying clones ends, they get word that LexCorp is simultaneously under attack by clones and Lex Luthor publicly blames CADMUS for it.

Action Comics #698

Superman races back to Metropolis to stop the army of clones that bear a resemblance to the ones who attacked Superboy not long ago.  Like the previous ones, these are programmed to self-destruct and Superman throws them into the harbor just in time.  The remaining clones are wearing green full-body suits.  Superman unmasks one of them and discovers they're all clones of Lex Luthor.  In the middle of the fight, Superman loses control of his heat vision and has to leave the city.  The Guardian notices that the Man of Steel is now nearly eight feet tall.

One of the clones breaks into Luthor's office and reveals Dabney Donavan is behind the attack, but it turns out Luthor has already fled the building and Dabney confessed his master plan to a dummy.  Safe at his estate, Lex Luthor continues to read the damaging expose that Lois is writing about him.  Rather than arranging an accident to dispose of her, Luthor decides to make some minor changes to her copy to destroy her credibility.

The Bizarro's World story line was strangely grounded in the realism of the post-Crisis era, which makes him an odd choice of a villain to use in this period.  While the writers tried to give plausible explanations for a lot of things, they never explained how Bizarro got his mirror image costume.  Bizarro wouldn't be seen again until the 2000's, when the post-Crisis rules started to deteriorate.  Superman would also return to his pre-Crisis power levels in that period too.  Readers may have thought the increase in Superman's powers following the resurrection was an abandonment of the post-Crisis dictates, but this would be short-lived and things would be back to normal again soon.