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Yes Thoth has it!.


Lana Lang and John Henry Irons have been in a relationship since about Superman #32 (New 52 volume). In the current version Lana became an engineer after leaving Smallville and teamed up with John on a space adventure to assist Superman and help solve a mysterious sleeping/coma illness that was affecting many of the residents of Smallville (turned out to be Brainiac). The relationship has been ongoing with the pair also combining their tech knowledge both for business and the occasional assist to Superman and I think recently advanced to the stage of engagement. Lana and John's niece (yes it is niece) Natasha get on well and the three have formed an effective functional family unit. We haven't yet seen any fallout from Natasha's recent weeks/months long stay on Warworld being captured, tortured and enslaved during Superman's attempt to free its inhabitants from Mongul but we may. (Great story by Philip Kennedy Johnson but getting a bit away from Lana now.)

The other more "recent" event in Lana's life was when she and Lois absorbed the energy flare at the death of the New52 Superman and for a short period became two Superwomen. The energy killed Lois failry quickly but Lana was ok for sometime until it began to affect her as well. Steel took her to the Fortress of Solitude to get help from the Rebirth Superman where the energy was removed and she was cured, now without super powers, and resumed her place as part of Steelworks and the Irons/Lang family.

The New52/Rebirth Superman story is convoluted - wow, how unusual for comics - with the Post-Crisis Superman ending up in the New52 universe after Convergence along with his Lois and their son Jonathon, and he ended up replacing the New52 Superman after his death with some interesting stories about people including the Justice League wondering whether to trust him. However thanks to some involvement from Mxyzptlk Jonathon managed to merge the New52 and Post-Crisis Superman and Lois retconning the universe along with it so that they had always been the Rebirth Superman and Lois. Questions about some things that happened to the New52 Superman, such as his relationship with Wonder Woman, have been largely ignored and are up to the reader's interpretation. (And people say comics can be confusing. Huh.)

Anyway Thoth's turn.

Convolution is a part of publishing life

Forget Byrne or Waid's Superman and Wondy as a couple. Back in 1973, in a Cary Bates tale, Superman announced his engagement to Wonder Woman, and it was all over the news. But why?

It represented a Union between Themyscira and the last survivor of Krypton?

Nope. They had a specific reason for announcing it, and looking romantically involved.

To fool a villain into thinking they were retiring ?

It was to fool a villain. Why would Supes need to dump Lois for Wondy?

To protect Lois from attack?

That was it. Supes and Wondy were quite smoochy throughout. They selflessly declared their love for each other publically. All because another woman was gently rejected by Supes. That drove her insane, and she swore vengeance on Superman's love. Knowing Lois might not survive, Wondy stepped in to be a new love. Both Wondy and Lois got to save the other. There's a fun scene where the stalker rips off a Lois mask, to reveal a hooded disguise, then rips that off to show her true face. No idea how she could breathe under all that.

Over to you Ibby!

Sounds like a nice Silver Age-y bit of hijinks!

In the “everything becomes perfect” Superman Red/Superman Blue story, the two Supermen solve a lot of problems. But a good Lex Luthor contributes one thing / what is it?

I think it was from the 70s that one. Lovely art, with that non US art style you'd see in some romance comics.

Puts on Olsen's guessing hat from the box of hats...

He removes Kryptonite from Earth?

"Oh yes, I remember it well."

Lex develops some sort of super-antibiotic/anti-everything serum which Superman distributes into water sources around the world, a few drops here and a few drops there, and it cures most of humanity's physical ailments including blindness etc. It even causes Lex's hair to grow back.

stile has it!!

Superman Red/Blue did everything else though -

1) make all kryptonite harmless, by using it to
2) recreate Krypton
3) which enabled them to restore the bottle city of Kandor
4) oh, and they also created a world for the Atlanteans
5) they removed all evil on Earth
6) and even the Phantom Zone criminals were freed, because the anti-evil rays worked on them...

but yeah, Luthor helped by curing all disease

Loved that story as a kid, though now tend to look askance at the (common at the time) rehabilitation technique of effectively brain-washing.
They even managed to solve the Lois/Lana quandry by marrying both of them since there were now two Supermans ... Supermen ... whatever.

Which (in)famous frequent adversary of Green Lantern (Hal) originated in the Golden Age as an adversary of the Flash (Jay)?

Hector Hammond?

Evil Star?

Star Sapphire.

No
No
Yes! In the Golden Age she was a man-hating "Queen" of an uninhabited planet and battled Jay Garrick on two occasions. I recently watched a fun Youtube which dived into her Golden Age stories and her sole Post-Crisis appearance. "Forgotten Star Sapphire Fears Men - Mistress Of The Seventh Dimension" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itir-WKBrT8

Your turn Chaim.

no joke, I was gonna guess Star Sapphire next - I remembered there was a very different Golden Age take. Deborah Darnell, right?

nice question and nice guessing!

I'd forgotten about the GA Star Sapphire!

I knew the GA Evil Star was a JSA villain, so I thought maybe he might have had some specific connection to the Flash as well!

Which two real-world, named historical figures appeared in the Atlantis Chronicles?

Hmm.... Solon and Plato?

Plato for one?

Eeks:EDE got in before me...

Madame Blavatsky for my second.

EDE is correct about Solon.

Neither Plato nor Madam Blavatsky are correct.

Wow! I thought Plato was the obvious one.

Umm... Edgar Cayce?