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I've not looked at other sources , but I don't remember there being a lot of post crisis issues of the book. It was one of those that went because DC were building up to the Superman relaunch. I was thinking of Superwoman, but I guess that's out.

Could it be Superboy's girlfriend on Earth Prime? Maybe there's things that happened to her later I don;t know about. Her name was Laurie?

i had considered Laurie, but disregarded her because I assumed Supes-Prime had appeared at the same time as Crisis. i always assume that appearing concurrent to Crisis = not debuting after.

but Laurie definitely fits most of the other clues! especially the Black Lantern one

It is Laurie Lemmon, Superboy-Prime's girlfrined!

At no point did I say she debuted after Crisis:



Debuting concurrent to Crisis = not debuting before *or* after!


She and Superboy-Prime both debut in DC Comics Presents #87.
She presumably dies in Crisis.
Alexander Luthor shows Superboy-Prime the death of his parents and Laurie in an auto accident on New Earth to manipulate him during Infinite Crisis.
After Superboy-Prime restores Earth-Prime in some event or another, he finds his parents and Laurie having read about his adventures, but horrified at him, and so he apparently kills her off-panel.
She is later seen "alive" but with a Black Lantern ring.

So, thoth asked in the very first round of questions whether she'd lived somewhere other than Earth-1. What I thought would happen was that, with a "yes" to that question, you guys would immediately start guessing other pre-Crisis Earths she could be from, which would quickly get us to Earth-Prime, and it would be easy after that. Instead, everyone seems to have been led astray by the "not before Crisis" question to think that's why she didn't appear on Earth-1, and so no one pursued the obvious line of questioning.

Yeah, looking back at the phrasing, I definitely misinterpreted the "did not debut before Crisis" clue. You're right,in that your answer was worded correctly.

Another brain fart of mine: "living somewhere other than Earth-1" for some reason made me think of other planets! That's why I asked so many questions about interplanetary organizations.

Funnily enough, I remembered Superboy-Prime as an associate of the Sinestro Corps; I think I may have asked a question on that, or was planning to. But in any case, the Black Lantern clue made me think otherwise.

And I had assumed that at least some of this character's deaths were due to reboots. We know there were three. So I thought, one death to turn this character into a Black Lantern, and possibly another death as a Black Lantern. That still left at least one retcon/reboot.

It all makes sense in the end!

And this all makes me remember how much I detest what became of Superboy-Prime. He was great in COIE, but alas... he and Alex Luthor definitely got the shaft.

good going EDE, and good going to thothy (and Lardy) for figuring it out!

I believe you asked if the character (Laurie) was in the Sinestro Corps, but not about the love interest (Superboy-Prime), who apparently was associated with the Sinestro Corps, Red Lanterns, Star Sapphires, and Black Lanterns at different points (going by Wikipedia, I've never read any of stuff myself).

yeah, towards the end I was starting to get confused between clues for the character, and clues for the love interest. That contributed to my being unable to figure it out

I was really glad when Quis asked whether the love interest and the guest star were the same person, because I was worried I was going to have to keep track of three different lists!

Wow! That was a good one EDE! I picked up a lot of Crisis era DCP issues a few years back, so Laurie crossed my mind when we knew she appeared around that time, that she had no powers and that she had appeared since. Well, she crossed my mind after I'd wandered through the Forgotten Heroes, wondering if Ambush Bug has a romantic interest.

Then I missed a few posts and when I came back I mistook the guest star for the character. Then something made me think the answer was in a group and I thought it would be one of the many Omega Men. Then I went back to Laurie. The whole Lantern thing threw me a bit, as I've not read too many of those.

She wasn't too obscure as I'd not have thought of her earlier on. I'm glad I guessed though, as I'd half convinced myself it wasn't her.

I honestly thought Edie had made a serious error somewhere! In my head S-Prime appeared well before Crisis, probably because Earth-Prime had been around. I also felt like I had read his first appearance, yet I don't think I ever read DCCP 87. (My big time reading DCCP that I've referred to many times was several years earlier, around the thirties and forties of that mag.) Oddly enough, the site I use for cover and issue reference, mycomicsshop.com, does not note that this issue features S-Prime's first appearance. If I had noticed that the issue sells for significantly more than the surrounding issues, I might have figured it out sooner.

I also completely forgot about Laurie. So much awful, disgusting stuff has been done with S-Prime that it's hard to remember much beyond heads being punched off and crap. It'll be interesting to rediscover what he was originally like in the Crisis re-read.

DCCP #87 is an excellent comic, though reading it will piss you off about what was later done with Superboy-Prime even more!

It's pretty funny that all of this pre-dated the new Crisis thread and all of my talk of DCCP over there!

I was actually sitting here thinking, "Lardy just mentioned Superboy-Prime over in the Crisis thread... how does not realize that these clues refer to Superboy-Prime!"

Superboy-Prime had such great early appearances. what happened to him is a tragedy. instead of getting enraged that he murdered three Legionnaires - including Kinetix - I just imagine that events proceeded as in my fanfic, where Zoe is saved and restored in a big battle with Mordru, and the Reboot Legion’s world is restored too!

I did? I don't remember asking that.

I'm now thinking of a character.

I think this is it

is your character female?

If your character robbed a bank would eyewitnesses say "D'uh! They are a villain after all!"?

No


Summary: Not female

That's a yes although there would be a few other things that might cross their minds first.

Summary: Not female and not someone whose bank robbing exploits would come as a surprise.

Is this character's native language something other than English?

does this character have powers beyond those f a normal human being?

Could this character use Heart's "Magic Man" as a theme song because he has magical powers?

Tough one (and so early on) I'll say no, even if English isn't often used.


Summary: Not female and someone who is a native English speaker even if it's not often used say in bank robberies which come as little surprise to those familiar with the character.