Superman!

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See TheBruas profile for links to the other 15 TBs in this Batman! series. Superman, Kal-L of Krypton-2, Clark Kent of Earth-2. Son of Jor-L and Lara. Nephew of Zor-L. Cousin of Kara Zor-L/Karen Starr/Power Girl. Adopted son of John and Mary Kent. Husband of Lois Lane Kent. Brother-in-law of Lucille Thompkins. Uncle of Susie Thompkins. Residence: Metropolis Occupation: Reporter for, later Editor-in-Chief of, the Daily Star Superman was born Kal-L, son of Jor-L and Lara, on the planet Krypton shortly before Earth's World War I. Krypton was a dying planet, racked by a series of seismic upheavals that spelled the ultimate doom of the planet. Jor-L, a leading Kryptonian scientist, recognized the dangers inherent in these upheavals and prepared a ship to take Kal-L to safety in the event of a planet-wide disaster. When the fateful day arrived, Jor-L rocketed his son to a new life on a distant world. As Kal-L was just a babe in arms, he had no knowledge of his parents or the world where he was born. Kal-L landed on Earth in the late 1910s, an event witnessed by passers-by John and Mary Kent. The Kents rescued the boy from the crashed ship, which destroyed itself later. The Kents took young Kal-L to a local orphanage, declaring him an abandoned child. Young Kal-L soon proved too much for the nurses there to handle, and when the Kents returned to adopt the boy, he was gladly released. They named the boy Clark and took him home to raise on their farm near Smallville. Clark grew up a bright lad and farm hand to his parents in the 1920s and 1930s, with little suspicion of his fledgling super-powers. Eventually Mary Kent passed on, and John Kent joined her soon after. Before he died, John warned Clark that his powers might frighten people and exhorted him to use those powers to champion the cause of justice and the common good. Clark took his adopted father's advice to heart and decided to create a new identity for himself that would pursue justice while allowing him a human identity. He created a costume similar to one he had seen on his teenage mentor and adopted the identity of Superman. Clark made two decisions that affected his career as Superman. First, he decided that he needed to leave the small town of his youth and move to a large city, to have greater access to the needy population. To this end, he boarded up his family home and moved to Metropolis. Second, he needed a job that would give him instant access to news of crime and disasters. To this end, he sought employment from George Taylor at the Daily Star. When Taylor declined to offer him a job, Kent became determined to prove himself to the Star's editor. Kent's first assignment: to learn everything possible about Superman. One of Superman's coworkers at the Star was a reporter named Lois Lane. Lane was an aggressive career woman, an unusual characteristic in those days. With Superman's appearance, Lane became first fascinated by, and then enamored of, the Man of Steel. She ruthlessly pursued him, and in time Superman returned her affections. Rather than expose her to the risk of association with his costumed identity, he approached her as Clark Kent. Unfortunately, because Kent adopted a mousy and demure facade (to project a cowardly image that contrasted himself with Superman), Lane had little more than contempt for Kent, referring to him as a "milksop" or a "worm." Superman thus spent many years in his early career in a bizarre love triangle with Lois Lane and both forms of himself. On the other hand, Kent found a friend in a young assistant named Jimmy Olsen. Olsen was a office boy at the Daily Star who had aspirations to be a great reporter and idolized the successful Kent. Kent rewarded Olsen's loyalty and admiration by also befriending him as Superman, even helping the "cub" reporter get the scoop when he defeated the Archer. Olsen started his career at the Star as pre-teen in the 1930s and remained there throughout World War II. In the 1950s, he was added to the regular reporting staff of the Daily Star. The one who ultimately became Superman's supreme adversary, was Lex Luthor. Luthor's true origins and place of birth are unknown, but his modus operandi was invariable: conquest through science. Throughout his adult life, Luthor used advanced weapons, formulae, and scientific processes to commit fantastic crimes. Powers/Skills Superman's powers, the result of his Kryptonian biology, include (but are not limited to): • flight (really, really long jumps) • super-strength • super-speed • invulnerability to bullets and lesser projectiles • x-ray vision Weaknesses/Limitations Superman could be poisoned and ultimately slain by exposure to Kryptonite, a radioactive derivative of the planet Krypton's explosion. He also displayed a heightened susceptibility to magic.