In the earliest Superman comics, Clark Kent's primary purpose was to fulfill the perceived dramatic requirement that a costumed superhero cannot remain on full duty all the time.

Clark Kent's favorite movie is To Kill a Mockingbird ( in which Gregory Peck wears glasses not unlike Kent's ).

* In the 1970s, one suggestion was that the lenses of Clark Kent's glasses ( made of Kryptonian materials ) constantly amplified a low-level super-hypnosis power, thereby creating the illusion of others viewing Clark Kent as a weak and frailer being.

Since the shorts were produced during the rise of film noir in cinema, the change was usually represented as a stylized sequence: Clark Kent's silhouette is clearly seen behind a closed door's pebble glass window ( or a shadow thrown across a wall ) as he strips to his Superman costume.

Clark Kent's hair is always absolutely flat, while Superman's hair has a slight wave and is parted on the opposite side as Kent's.

The first film is in three sections: Kal-El's infancy on Krypton ( shot in London on the 007 stage ), Clark Kent's teen years in Smallville, and Kent / Superman's adult life in Metropolis ( shot in New York City ).

Ironically, it is also in the Reeve films that Clark Kent's persona has the greatest resemblance to Woody Allen, though his conscious model was Cary Grant's character in Bringing up Baby.

The story has similarities to the 2001 television series Smallville, which follows Clark Kent's life as a teenager and into early adulthood.

Thanks to Clark Kent's appearance as Superman and Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen being given exclusive interviews and photographs, the paper's circulation increases 700 %.

On Clark Kent's eighteenth birthday, a glowing crystal reveals itself in the ship and compels Clark to take it north.

* Shelby ( dog ), Clark Kent's dog on the TV series Smallville

Gough and Millar called Kreuk to WB's studios in Burbank, California to audition for the role of Clark Kent's first love, Lana Lang.

In the earliest Golden Age Superboy comics, the name of Clark Kent's hometown is uncertain.

In the storyline " The Secret Rocket " ( 9 / 29 / 47-10 / 30 / 47 ), mention was made several times that young Clark Kent grew up on Eben Kent's farm in Iowa.

McKean played Perry White, who-in the Superman universe-ultimately becomes Clark Kent's boss.

Shuster named Clark Kent's paper The Daily Star in honour of The Toronto Daily Star.

Later Whitman performed the role of Clark Kent's father Jonathan Kent on the popular TV series Superboy.

Following the precedent set by Star Trek, these story arcs show alternative universes that have turned out " worse " than the " original " universe: in Stargate SG-1 the first two encountered parallel realities featured Earth being overwhelmed by an unstoppable Goa ' uld onslaught ; in Buffy, two episodes concern a timeline in which Buffy came to Sunnydale too late to stop the vampires from taking control ; Lois & Clark repeatedly visits an alternative universe where Clark Kent's adoptive parents, Jonathan and Martha Kent, died when he was ten years of age, and Lois Lane is also apparently dead.

He had a recurring role as " Bill Church Jr ." based upon the character of Moxie Mannheim's son ( Bruno Mannheim ) from the Superman comics on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

Although not formalised and acknowledged as a mythos per se, Lovecraft did correspond with contemporary writers ( Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, and Fritz Lieber – a group referred to as the " Lovecraft Circle ") – and shared story elements: Robert E. Howard's character Friedrich Von Junzt reads Lovecraft's Necronomicon in the short story " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ), and in turn Lovecraft mentions Howard's Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the stories " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

Clark Kent is a fictional character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

In 1986, during John Byrne's revamping of the character, the emphasis was on Superman being the manufactured persona of Clark Kent, the side of the character he most identifies with.

This fact was one of the main inspirations for the 1980s reboot of the Clark Kent half of the Superman character, according to writer and artist John Byrne in the article " Super-Discussions " published by Attic Books in Comics Values Monthly Special # 2 ( 1992 ).

In his book Still Me, Reeve says he based his interpretation of Clark Kent on Cary Grant's nerdy character in Bringing Up Baby.

2, with the character of Bill noting that Superman was not born into his alter ego ( Spider-Man was " Peter Parker " first, Batman was born " Bruce Wayne "), using the blanket he was wrapped in as his costume, and Clark Kent is a collage of mankind's less impressive traits meant to blend in with other humans ( as well as a device to pursue Lois Lane's affections ).

In the 1950s George Reeves series, Clark Kent is portrayed as a cerebral character who is the crime reporter for the Daily Planet and who as Kent uses his intelligence and powers of deduction to solve crimes ( often before Inspector Henderson does ) before catching the villain as Superman.

In season ten, for the first time in public Clark begins to formulate a bumbling / stuttering Kent with glasses akin to the Christoper Reeve / Brandon Routh portrayal of the character.

John Clark ( real name John Terrence Kelly ) is a fictional character created by Tom Clancy who appears in many of Clancy's novels.

The character John Clark appears in the following books:

* February 6 – Carrie Clark Ward, stage & film character actress ( b. 1862 )

* January 9 – Carrie Clark Ward, character actress ( d. 1926 )

As with all of the books associated with the DC relaunch, Clark Kent appears to be about five years younger than the previous incarnation of the character.

Larry Keating, actually, was not in the original cast, with his character of Harry Morton first being portayed by Fred Clark until 1953.

Whereas Clark Kent's true self is Superman ( or rather the Kryptonian Kal-El ), Batman is a character created by Bruce Wayne in order to disguise himself for the purposes of fighting crime.

Kenneth Clark, of the Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) which let the franchise, remarked: " We did not quite foresee how much Granada would develop a character which distinguishes it most markedly from the other programmes companies and from the BBC.

The character is later given the civilized name of ' Clark ' by Lois Lane, and is captured along with his friends, and used for profit by Lex Luthor, who is also eventually slain.

* Tracy Clark, fictional character from The CW primetime drama 90210

Varney also lent his voice to Slinky Dog in Disney's Toy Story 1 and 2 in the Toy Story series ( Varney was replaced by Blake Clark in Toy Story 3 due to his death in 2000 ), and played numerous others, including " Cookie " Farnsworth, from Atlantis: The Lost Empire, released the year after his death ( Steve Barr replaced Varney for the sequel Atlantis: Milo's Return ), the carny character Cooter in the " Bart Carny " episode of The Simpsons, the character Walt Evergreen in the Duckman episode " You've Come a Wrong Way, Baby ", Prince Carlos Charmaine ( a royal suitor Jackie dates ) for a few episodes of the final season of the 1990s television series Roseanne, and Lothar Zogg in the 1998 film 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain, also starring Hulk Hogan and Loni Anderson as well as Toby Shephard in Jumanji.

To demonstrate the soil of his vegetable gardens as it is today, Mr. Clark stooped to scoop up a handful of rich dark earth.

Writing in a large volume on the nude in painting and sculptures, titled The Nude: A Study In Ideal Form, Kenneth Clark declares: `` The human body, as a nucleus, is rich in associations.

The 1961 theme is the Dakota Territorial Centennial, with the pictures including the Lewis and Clark expedition, the first river steamboat, the 1876 gold rush, a little red schoolhouse on the prairie, and today's construction of large Missouri River reservoirs.

* Bill Evans's overdubbed piano elegy for fellow jazz pianist Sonny Clark is titled " N. Y. C.

* 1953 – Operation Moolah is initiated by General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots.

The province is currently governed by the BC Liberal Party, led by Premier Christy Clark, who became leader as a result of the party election on February 26, 2011.

Citing research by John Green, who found that several contemporary British Columbia newspapers regarded the alleged capture as very dubious, Clark notes that the Mainland Guardian of New Westminster, British Columbia, wrote, " Absurdity is written on the face of it.

He is one of ten San Francisco Giants to appear on the cover, along with Kelly Downs, Rick Reuschel, Willie Mays ( nine times ), Alvin Dark, Juan Marichal, Will Clark, Tim Lincecum ( twice ), Brian Wilson, and Buster Posey.

The Pend Oreille river system ( including its main tributaries, the Clark Fork and Flathead rivers ) is also similar in size to the Columbia at their confluence.

With studied playfulness, Smith and Lovecraft borrowed each other's coinages of place names and the names of strange gods for their stories, though so different is Smith's treatment of the Lovecraft theme that it has been dubbed the ' Clark Ashton Smythos '.

In a letter to P. Schuyler Miller and John D. Clark in 1936 only three months before Howard's death, Conan is described as standing and weighing when he takes part in an attack on Venarium at only 15 years old, though being far from fully grown.

* Joe Marek chronology — Joe Marek's chronology is limited to stories written ( or devised ) by Howard, though within that context it is essentially a revision of the Miller / Clark tradition to better reflect the internal evidence of the stories and avoid forcing Conan into what he perceives as a " mad dash " around the Hyborian world within timeframes too rapid to be credible.

To deflect suspicion that he is Superman, Clark Kent adopted a largely passive and introverted personality with conservative mannerisms, a higher-pitched voice, and a slight slouch.

In the Pre-Crisis comic book title Superman Family, Clark is featured in a series of stories called " The Private Life of Clark Kent ," where he solves problems subtly without changing into Superman.

Adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent from the Kansas town of Smallville, Clark ( and thus Superman ) was raised with the values of a typical rural American town, including attending the local Methodist Church ( though it is debated by comic fans if Superman is a Methodist ).

Feeling that Clark is the real person and that Clark is not afraid to be himself in his civilian identity, John Byrne has stated in interviews that he took inspiration for this portrayal from the George Reeves version of Superman.

As of One Year Later, Clark is in his mid-thirties, stands at, and weighs about.