Left: ADVENTURE COMICS, No. 291, December, 1961, p.1-14. - Superboy describes his ideal woman to be Cleopatra, provoking Lana Lang to pretend to be Cleopatra having been brought to the future.
Right: TALES OF SUSPENSE, Vol. 1, No. 44, August, 1963, p.1-13. - Tony Stark, as Iron Man, is taken back in time by the "Mad Pharaoh" to get revenge on Cleopatra, but instead saves Cleopatra from both the Romans and Pharaoh Hatap.
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Left: ARCHIE GIRLS BETTY AND VERONICA, No. 88, April, 1963.
Right:LAUGH, No. 148, July, 1963.
These Archie Girl Comics used the glamour and popularity of the Lizpatra film as an eye-catch for their covers.
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Left: SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN, No. 71, September, 1963, p.11-19. - Professor Potter's levitator device backfires and sends Jimmy Olsen and the professor back in time, where they meet Cleopatra. However, this is all an elaborate hoax in order to discover the levitator's secret.
Right: FORBIDDEN WORLDS, No. 116, November-December, 1963. p.1-14. - Herbie is confronted with the Devil, who offers him pleasures, one of which is to be the lead actor in the Cleopatra film, where Herbie "steals the scene" from Ms. Baylor, the lead actress.
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Left: RIP HUNTER...TIME MASTER, No. 19, March-April, 1964. - Rip Hunter goes back in time to collect information for a museum, but is placed under a spell by Cleopatra to make him think that he is Julius Caesar, and to attack Ptolemy.
Right: RIP HUNTER...TIME MASTER, No. 21, July-August, 1964. - Rip Hunter is in charge of collecting the most beautiful women in history for a beauty contest, and Cleopatra is among the list. The pageant, however, turns into an all-out brawl between the bickering beauties.
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Left: STRANGE TALES, Vol. 1, No. 124, September 1964, p.18-29. - Cleopatra is the mysterious "Woman from Nowhere," who was magically sent to the future by the Sorceror Zota to do his bidding, and whom Dr. Strange must save.
Right: 80 PAGE GIANT: LOIS LANE, No. 14, September 1965, p.31-40. - Superman takes Lois Lane on a trip through time to prove that she is the only woman for him.
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Left: WONDER WOMAN, No. 161, April, 1966, p.1-18. - When two identical Cleopatra movies are being produced simultaneously, the competition gets violent, and Wonder Woman is forced to replace the actress as Cleopatra in order to finish the filming and find out the secret of "Cleopatra's Curse."
Right: The billboards of the competing films stand side-by-side.
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Left: THE ADVENTURES OF JERRY LEWIS, No. 94, May-June, 1966.
Right: CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED, No. 161, August, 1967. - This is the story of Harmachis, who gets caught up in the life and death of Cleopatra because of a prophesy that he would become pharaoh.
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Left: SUPERBOY, No. 160, October, 1969. - Superboy falls in love with Cleop Amahdi, the new girl in school, but is tricked into believing that he killed her, and goes into exile. However, this may all be an elaborate plot to halt Superboy's crime fighting.
Right: Superboy shows the courtroom the body of Cleopatra, which had been reanimated as Cleop Amadhi.
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Left and Right: ASTERIX AND CLEOPATRA, 1965 (English 1970). - Cleopatra wants to prove the architectural prowess of her Egyptian subjects to Caesar, and so she bets that she can have a palace built in only three months. The Egyptian architect sends for Asterix and gang from Gaul in order to make the process go faster, and hilarity ensues.
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Left: Cleopatra arrives to oversee Asterix and Obelix building the castle.
Right: THE COMIC READER, 1980. - Asterix, Obelix, and Dogmatix and Co. judge Cleopatra to be a perfect X. The cover is the only reference to Cleopatra in the comic.
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