<![CDATA[Today's the birthday of Mr. Mxyzptlk, Superman's antagonist from the Fifth Dimension.]]>Today's the birthday of Mr. Mxyzptlk, Superman's antagonist from the Fifth Dimension.

(Art by Kurt Schaffenberger, Joe Staton, Marshall Rogers, and Aluir Amancio.)

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Also, originally, *anyone* who said Mxy's name backwards got sent to the Fifth Dimension (something soon dropped); it was actually a magic word spelled like his name backwards by coincidence. (An even harder to say/spell word would send one to Earth.)

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