 As he can't imagine so grandiose a death, he uses the Machine to create a being which could, Omega.In order to stop his creation, he has Matter-Eater Lad consume the Machine, which drives M-E Lad insane for a number of years.In "DC Comics Presents" #50 (October 1982), the first fictional chronological appearance of the Miracle Machine, Superman inadvertently used it to create a duplicate of himself as Clark Kent.