Mxyztplk' (the original spelling), by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Ira Yarborough. Mxyzptlk was created to appear in Superman #30 (September / October 1944), in the story 'The Mysterious Mr. His portrayal has varied, with him being an outright supervillain in some media, and an antihero in others.
Mxyzptlk possesses reality-warping powers with which he enjoys tormenting Superman or making life difficult. He is usually presented as a trickster in the classical mythological sense. Mister Mxyzptlk ( / ˌ m ɪ k s j ɛ z ˈ p ɪ t əl ɪ k/ MIKS-yez- PIT-əl-ik or / ˈ m ɪ k s ɪ l p l ɪ k/ MIK-sil-plik), sometimes called Mxy, is a character who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. JSTOR ( September 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. This article relies excessively on references to primary sources.
