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Lois and Lane
Fellow reporter Lois Lane became the object of Clark's / Superman's romantic affection.
Traditionally, Lois Lane ( and sometimes others ) would often suspect Superman of truly being Clark Kent ; this was particularly prominent in Silver Age stories, including those in the series Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane.
In post-Crisis continuity, Lois Lane, feeling that someone like Clark could not be Superman, never suspected the dual identity beyond one isolated incident before Clark finally revealed it to her.
In the 2009 retcon of the mythos, Lois Lane is fully aware from the beginning, along with Perry White, that the meek, pudgy and bumbling Clark Kent deliberately holds himself back: however, still far from associating him to Superman, they simply believe he's hiding his qualities as a good reporter.
In the current continuity established by DC's " New 52 " relaunch in 2011, Lois Lane remains unaware that Clark is Superman.
At the very end of the novel, where Superman stands poised to destroy the United Nations, Norman McCay makes him realise that, when he abandoned Clark Kent fifteen years ago after the murder of Lois Lane by the Joker and retreated into his Superman self, he lost this instinctive morality and thus the ability to be the hero Superman.
While he quickly gains the respect of Planet editor Perry White, he is forced to contend with rival reporter Lois Lane, who often uses trickery to prevent Clark from pursuing a lead ( giving her the chance to scoop him ).
In Superman II Reeve's Superman has to sacrifice his powers ( effectively becoming just Clark Kent ) in order to have a love relationship with Lois Lane, a choice he eventually abrogates to protect the world.
Emphasis is laid on the comic elements of his dual relationship with Lois Lane ( Teri Hatcher ).
In the final season, Clark Kent marries Lois Lane ( a few years after her almost-marriage to his arch-enemy Lex Luthor, whom she refused at the altar ), finding love, happiness, and completeness in this relationship which does not jeopardize his Superman persona.
In season nine, Clark unintentionally begins to formalize his dual identity to protect his secret and also privately introduces the well-known glasses to Lois Lane.
These include Frank Zappa, Shawn Lane, Steven Mackey, Nick Didkovsky, Scott Johnson, Lois V Vierk, Tim Brady, Tristan Murail, John Rogers, and Randall Woolf.
One of Niven's best known humorous works is " Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex ", in which he uses real-world physics to underline the difficulties of Superman and a human woman ( Lois Lane or Lana Lang ) mating.
When Lois Lane and Clark Kent are invited to a society gala aboard Luthor's yacht, terrorists seize the ship without warning, forcing Superman to intervene.
Luthor's romantic aspirations toward Lois Lane, established early on in the series, become a focal point of the stories immediately following it.
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 %.
General Lane attempts to force Lois to tell them everything she knows about Superman, who is now a fugitive after he fled a military interrogation.
Meanwhile, Lois Lane discovers proof of Luthor's clone harvesting and false identity ; with help from Superman, she exposes the truth, and a despondent Superman helps to apprehend Luthor.
While searching for the energy of the Black Lantern simultaneously dispatching various Doomsday ' clones ' created from the original to distract Earth's heroes by sending them after the other members of the Superman family with the aid of a robotic duplicate of Lois Lane created to give him an honest opinion on his actions, Luthor encountered Brainiac in space while attempting to alter the last of the Black Lantern energy, acting upon an unspoken theory of his.
After the events of Blackest Night, Luthor went on to build a gynoid version of Lois Lane using Brainiac technology.
Just as Luthor is about to marry Lois Lane, the truth about his evil nature is exposed and he takes his own life by jumping off a building rather than face imprisonment.
The widow dies shortly after Superman's return to Earth, and Luthor immediately sets out to avenge himself, first by ransacking the Fortress of Solitude, and later through the abduction of Lois Lane and her son Jason.

Lois and Jimmy
He along with Lois and Jimmy go into Glen Glenmorgan's hotel where Lex calls the Collector and it is revealed that Lex had made a deal with him.
The first one Jaxon Xavier ( played by Andy Berman ) who was also a top scientist in one of Lex's companies called Lex Labs, entrapped Lois and Clark in a virtual reality world to steal information for mind control before the two with the help of Jimmy Olsen tricked him into letting them out by stealing his wrist watch escape window leaving him stranded.
The character made forty appearances in the Superman family of titles Action Comics, Superman, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane, Adventure Comics, Secret Society of Super Villains, and DC Comics Presents from 1959 to 1984, prior to a reboot of the DC Universe as a result of the limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths # 1-12 ( April 1985-March 1986 ).
Other bandmembers at one time or another included George Bias ( vocals ), Benny Carter ( clarinet, alto saxophone ), Doc Cheatham ( trumpet ), Bill Coti ( vocals ), Ed Cuffee ( trombone ), Sidney de Paris ( trumpet ), Lois Deppe ( vocals ), Leonard Davis ( trumpet ), Jimmy Dudley ( clarinet, tenor saxophone ), Coleman Hawkins ( clarinet, tenor saxophone ), Robert Inge ( clarinet, ( alto saxophone ), Quentin Jackson ( trombone ), Moxey-Hilton Jefferson ( clarinet, alto saxophone ), James P. Johnson ( piano ), Buddy Lee ( trumpet ), Donald King ( vocals ), Kaiser Marshall ( drums ), Frank Marvin ( vocals ), Theodore McCord ( clarinet, tenor saxophone ), Jim Napier ( vocals ), Milton Senior ( trumpet ), Joe " Fox " Smith ( trumpet, cornet ), Rex Stewart ( cornet ), Billy Taylor ( tuba ), Fats Waller ( piano, celeste ).
Potter befriended three newspaper reporters from the Daily Planet: Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Clark Kent.
Such talks inspired him to create the Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen spin-off titles " over a lot of opposition " from the management who " protested that the characters weren't strong enough.
Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen, Clark's colleagues at the office, often find themselves in dangerous situations which can only be resolved with Superman's timely intervention.
Many of these plots had Jimmy and Lois being captured, only to get rescued at the last minute by Superman.
In one of the last episodes, " The Perils of Superman " ( a takeoff on The Perils of Pauline ), there was indeed deadly peril straight out of the movie serials: Lois tied to a set of railroad tracks with a speeding train bearing down on her, Perry White nearly sawed in half while tied to a log, Jimmy in a runaway car headed for a cliff, and Clark Kent immersed in a vat of acid.
It features Clark Kent / Superman, Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane, and plays like a normal black-and-white episode of the second season, with series semi-regulars Tristram Coffin ( as a government spokesman ) and Billy Nelson ( as a criminal.
He puts his superpowers to work battling crime in Metropolis and is often called upon to rescue his associates Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane.
He is sometimes a participant in the dangerous exploits of Lois and Jimmy as they pursue news stories.
Larson also had a guest appearance on Lois & Clark, playing an elder Jimmy Olsen.
Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen are sent to cover the battle for television, while Lex Luthor ( then masquerading as his non-existent son " Lex Luthor II ") dissuades Supergirl ( Matrix ) from joining the fight.
in the U. S .), featuring Stuart Milligan as Superman / Clark Kent / Kal-El & the Eradicator, William Hootkins as Lex Luthor, Lorelei King as Lois Lane, Vincent Marzello as Jimmy Olsen, Garrick Hagon as Jonathan Kent, Kerry Shale as Connor Kent / Kon-El / Superboy & Hank Henshaw / Cyborg Superman, Eric Meyers as Guy Gardner, Denica Fairman as Maggie Sawyer, Liza Ross as Supergirl, Burt Kwouk as Doctor Teng, and Leon Herbert as Dr. John Henry Irons / Steel with original music by Mark Russell.
Attendees of the funeral were Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, Perry White, Lex Luthor, Batman & Robin, Flash, Aquaman, Green Lantern, Hawkman & Hawkgirl, Penguin, Catwoman, characters from Marvel Comics ( Mister Fantastic, Hulk, Spider-Man, and Storm ) and an assortment of unfamiliar characters.
During a battle with Lex in his LexCorp office, Superman manages to witness the trapping of his friends Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Professor Emil Hamilton within the virtual realm.
Anne Morgan ( Kathleen Nolan ) consisting of Joan Staley, Sheila James, Lois Roberts and Jimmy Boyd ( as a male with a female name ), up against Binghamton type Captain Edward Andrews and his Lt Carpenter clone George Furth.
The serial consisted of 15 episodes which recounted Superman ’ s arrival on Earth, getting a job as a reporter at the Daily Planet newspaper, and meeting Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen.
In JLA: The Nail, where the public has been convinced that metahumans are alien invaders thanks to a smear campaign masterminded by Lex Luthor and a part-Kryptonian Jimmy Olsen, the Creeper is imprisoned by Cadmus Labs, Lois Lane noting that she once saw him save a family from a psychotic gunman.
With the similarly themed Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen as its senior, Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane would mark the second comic series based on a Superman supporting character.
He fires everyone except Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, and two others who are relocated to Lexcom, Lex ' new Internet-based news company.
In the limited comic series, DC Universe Online: Legends, Perry White was captured, along side Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen, in the Daily Planet by Brainiac, but was saved by Superman, with Lex Luthor in possession of the canister containing them.

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