Left: PICTURE NEWS IN COLOR AND ACTION, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1946, p.25-27. - A review of the Vivien Leigh Cleopatra movie, this comic short draws attention to major scenes in the plot of the George Bernard Shaw on which the film was based.
Right: This is the film advertisement that appeared before the comic short.
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Left: IDEAL COMICS, Vol. 1, No. 1, July, 1948, p.1-38. - Cleopatra is portrayed as a powerful rulers who falls madly in love with Mark Antony. It represents the most biographical comic portrayal of Cleopatra.
Right: LOVELORN, No. 3, December-January, 1949-1950, p.49-52. - This short chronicles the major parts of the Cleopatra legend, beginning with the carpet story, focusing on the love story with Antony, and ending with a death by poison in her lover's arms.
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Left: DETECTIVE COMICS, No. 167, January, 1951, p.1-12. - Batman and Robin travel back in time using hypnosis to become Cleopatra's bodyguards and discover how a bat signal appeared in a frieze from over 2,000 years ago.
Right: STRANGE ADVENTURES, No. 60, September, 1955, p. 1-6. - Cleopatra is brought forward in time with Columbus and Napoleon, where Cleopatra applies new make-up to a statue of herself.
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Left: HOUSE OF SECRETS, No. 3, March-April, 1957, p.17-22. - Oscar Brunn receives prophesies, one leading him into a wax museum, where an actress is playing Cleopatra calls to him and kisses him, in order to convince him of the validity of a fake crystal ball.
Right: The scene in House of Secrets where the Cleopatra wax statue "comes to life."
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Left: HA HA COMICS, 1952-1954. - This misfit dog-cat comic pair, having the names Anthony and Cleopatra (respectively), appeared in a number of shorts in Ha Ha Comics in the early 1950s.
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