Hey!  The great Maxwell Yezpitelok gave me another shout-out on his great blog, documenting my favourite era of Superman comics… superman86to99:

Character-Watch:

As the great donsparrow pointed out (it’s always worth it to check the notes in my posts in case Don added something important I missed), Mokkari and Simyan are from Jack Kirby’s old Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen comics, where they were actually alien New Gods serving under Darkseid. In this version their story is only a tiny bit more complicated: they were made in Project Cadmus, escaped, set up a rival cloning shop in Ireland, captured Jimmy’s secret agent dad when they sent him to find them, and made experiments with his DNA (hence the Olsen clones and winged atrocities from last issue).

Eventually Jimmy’s mom found them looking for her long-dead husband, so they just kidnapped her too (they should rename it the Kidnapping Factory). One of Daddy Olsen’s clones found out about this before getting flushed into the limbo dimension, where he met Jimmy and told him about his mom’s whereabouts. See? That wasn’t so confusing.