Spawn Of Lex Luthor, Part 2

Spawn of Lex Luthor, Part 2

Gloria Luthor (Gloria Talbott AKA Lori Talbott), Favourite Daughter of Alexander Rossen, better known through his rather exaggerated portrayal in comics as Lex Luthor.

Lex Luthor as he appeared in 1950. This is probably an accurate portrayal

Luthor's best-known girlfriend during the period of 1965 to 1980 (at her ages of 22 to 37) was called Jessica Morganberry in the Filmation TV cartoons and Eve Tessmacher in the first two of the Christopher Reeve Superman movies. Luthor almost certainly would NOT be regularly wearing a toupee at the time, the idea might have been to keep the actor from looking too much like Luthor. Since Power has Luthor dying in 1985, she was probably with him up to the end. This would also be about the time Luthor would be experimenting with exoskeletal battlesuits. Perhap he was overcompensating for the feeling that he was losing his youthful vigour. At any rate, Luthor was free from prison and killed by cancer in the 1980s and I'd like to think Eve Tessmacher had come back to his side at the last. It would be like her.

She subsequently went into Law Enforcement. She had no children.

One of the interesting things about the WN Superman-Family Chronology [That Dennis Power co-wrote] is that essentially Bizzaro is a bad copy of Hugo Danner and not Clark Kent, and he was there all through his lifetime as a sort of Evil Twin character. One of the bad aspects of this is that essentially the authors have made out Lana Lang to be the daughter of Bizzaro. Under 1933 of the chronology he mentions that The Guardian had attracted a collection of fans, The Newsboy Legion, and one of the members called Big Words was actually Joe Prescott (Later Superboy of the 1950s): this Joe Prescott attracted the attention of Janie Marie, the daughter of The Guardian. The authors then say this Guardian was Bizzaro (The creature that would come to be known as Bizzaro). I don't go for that.In view of Lana's shocking red hair it is much more likely that the child was Luthor's: I'm none to certain about The Guardian scenarion they outline, either.Obviously the events desscribe take several years to take place and the Newsboy Legion is a WWII Era series.The authors state that the Danner family including young Joe Prescott, Hugo Danner's grandsonwith both his parents missing and presumed dead, moved to a small town in Connecticut called Smallville and started a "sort of" career as Superboy. After this follows a note under 1944:
Joe's girlfriend Marie would also travel to the future with him on occasion (she was
the Lana Lang of the Legion stories. Marie was the daughter of Jim Harper
("Bingham Harvard' [Bizarro] and Marjorie Kinnison) Marie had found an ancient crystal,
which formed a forcefield about her. The forcefield also had the ability to take
any form Marie desired. Something of an entomologist, Marie visualized insect
forms. Although never proven the crystal was believed to have been an early form
of a Lens that had been utilized by an elite guard in Atlantis.Now THAT is interesting to know! The crystal was supposedly given to her by her father, and at this point the whole "Janie Marie" story starts to fall apart. A different story entirely is told about Lana Lang's family in the comics and Power's [et al] version verges a mite too close to incest for my tastes. However the "Early Lens" scenario is very good. This would be the same sort of a device that the Green Lanters use, only Lana Thinks Bugs ansd so what she needs to produce she conceptionalizes as insect forms. Something of a Tomboy she does not stop to think she is making herself ugly. She does not think of bugs as ugly. Also Kinnesons are related to Kents. Clark Kent (doubtless a cousin of hers) is about 25 at this time and already a newspaper reporter for many year's experience including in both Chicago and New York City.


Young Lana Lang

I am excerpting the Wikipedia entry on Lana Lang below. Of especial interest in view of the presumed relationship to Lex Luthor (Alexander Rossen) is the fact that she later inherits control of Lexcorp, although "In our last episode" the computer has taken over and run her out of the building!



Lana Lang as a Teenager in the 1950s





From the Wikipedia entry

Lana Lang

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lana_Lang
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Lana Lang is a fictional supporting character in DC Comics' Superman series. Created by writer Bill Finger and artist John Sikela, she first appears in Superboy #10 (September/October 1950).
Lana traditionally has been Superman's romantic interest when they were in Smallville. In the Silver Age, she regularly appeared in series featuring the character’s teenaged self, Superboy. She also often appeared as an adult in the Superman titles, vying with current love interest Lois Lane for his attention.
In modern DC Comics continuity, she and Clark Kent were and still are close friends with a certain degree of romantic tension between them. Furthermore, in the current version of Superman's origin story in Superman: Secret Origin, Lana is made privy to Clark's unusual abilities from an early age, becoming his only confidant in his childhood outside his parents and the Legion of Super-Heroes. For a time, Lana is married to Pete Ross, Clark Kent's best friend as a youth, and has a son by Pete named Clark Peter Ross.
Lana has been featured in most other media adaptations of Superboy or Superman as a teenager, including the WB/UPN television series Smallville, in which she is played by Kristin Kreuk. Lana was Clark Kent’s main romantic interest for the first seven seasons of the series. She has also appeared in many adaptations of Superman, although her role is generally smaller. An exception is the 1983 film Superman III, where she was played by Annette O'Toole (who later played Martha Kent in Smallville). Prior to Smallville, Lana was a regular character on the syndicated TV series Superboy television series. She was portrayed by Stacy Haiduk for the series' entire 100 episode run.
Lana is one of several Superman characters with the alliterative initials "LL", including her father Professor Lewis Lang, Lex Luthor, Lionel Luthor, Lena Luthor (whose surname was changed to "Thorul" in the Silver Age, to distance herself from her criminal brother), Lutessa Luthor (Lex's sister in "Smallville", but when given up for adoption, her name was changed to Tess Mercer), Lois Lane, Lucy Lane, Superman's Babysitter Letitia Lerner, Lori Lemaris, Leta Lal (a distant ancestor of Lori Lemaris), Luma Lynai, Lyla Lerrol, Linda Lee (aka Supergirl), and Linda Lake.

Earth-One version
In the original Superboy stories, Lana was the girl who lived next door to the Kent family in Smallville, and was a romantic interest of Superboy. In the Silver Age stories, Lana often behaved like a younger version of Lois, spending much of her time trying to prove that Superboy and Clark Kent were one and the same.
At one point, Lana once rescued an insect-like alien trapped by a fallen tree in Smallville. In gratitude, the alien gave her a "bio-genetic" ring which allowed Lana to gain insect (and insect-like, such as arachnids) characteristics. Lana created a yellow honeybee-like costume and mask, and took the name "Insect Queen", under which identity Lana had several adventures.
Lana also had various adventures with Superboy, and several with the futuristic superhero team the Legion of Super-Heroes. Also appearing in some Silver Age stories was Lana's uncle, Professor Potter, an eccentric inventor. [Professor Pepperwinkle on the Superman TV series starring George Reeves]
After Clark and Lana graduated from high school, Lana went to college, and eventually became a television reporter; as an adult, she became a rival to Lois Lane for Superman's romantic affection in various 1960s stories, often appearing in the title Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane.
During the 1970s and early 1980s, Lana became an anchorwoman for WGBS-TV's evening news in Metropolis, as a co-anchor to Clark Kent. Her attraction to Superman during this time had also died off, leaving Superman to Lois. Lana later became romantically linked to the alien super-hero Vartox. Eventually, she and Clark Kent became romantically involved in stories prior to the Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Modern Age

After the 1985-1986 miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths was written, various aspects of Lana's history were retconned, starting with comics writer John Byrne's miniseries The Man of Steel, which was designed to rewrite Superman's origin from scratch. In the post-Crisis version of events, Lana was a childhood friend of Clark, with a certain degree of romantic tension in the air as Lana had long pined after Clark, who had loved her only platonically in return.
After they graduated from high school Clark took Lana on a private walk, saying that he had to tell her something important, which Lana honestly expected to be a marriage proposal. He then divulged to her that he had superpowers, displayed by flying her around the world, before explaining that he felt he had to leave Smallville to help humanity as a whole. Kissing her goodbye "like a brother," Lana was left in considerable shock, not only over the revelation of Clark's superpowers, but also over the final realization that he held no reciprocal romantic feelings towards her, leaving Lana heartbroken and alone. When Lana finally aired her grievance with him years later, Clark felt very badly over how he had hurt her.
When Clark appeared in public as Superman some years later, the lonely and depressed Lana deduced his true identity and became something of a stalker, to the extent that Lex Luthor noticed the frequency with which she appeared in the vicinity of the hero and actually had her tortured in an attempt to gain whatever inside knowledge of Superman she might have [This is the "Kingpin" Luthor]However, Lana bravely kept Clark's identity a secret and upon his rescuing her their relationship became more healthy once again, albeit still at a distance. Unlike the pre-Crisis Earth-One continuity, Lana did not go on to have a journalistic career, compete with Lois for Superman's affections, nor play a significant role in Clark's life in Metropolis.
Lana's relationship with Clark is again altered in 2003's Superman: Birthright limited series by Mark Waid, which again revises Superman's origins. This storyline, which takes some inspiration from the TV show Smallville (such as the appearance of Ma and Pa Kent), also shows Clark and Lana to have had a mutual romantic relationship during their youth. At the start of the storyline, Lana has already left Smallville prior to Clark's return from his world journey. Upon his arrival home, a disappointed Clark is told that Lana left some time prior and has not been heard from since. Following this storyline, there is never again made mention of her past history regarding Clark or Superman.
Lana's "Birthright" history has been yet again re-made following the events of the Infinite Crisis, which has revived Clark's pre-Crisis Superboy alter-ego. In this new history, Lana had a deep romantic relationship with Clark, that was often interrupted by her two obnoxious brothers (which she lacked in previous versions). The full extent of her history and her connection to Superboy/Clark has not yet been fully disclosed. Again, her previous history has not been mentioned since this revision.
Years later, the post-Crisis Lana eventually married Pete Ross.^{[volume & issue needed]} The two settled into a quiet life in Smallville, where they had a son they named after their mutual friend, Clark, after Lana asked Clark to save the baby's life when a car accident caused him to be born eight weeks premature; although Clark's efforts to take him to receive care were interrupted by the attack of the Brainiac-controlled Doomsday, Brainiac's subsequent attempts to use the baby's DNA to create a new body for himself brought the baby to full term.^{[volume & issue needed]} Pete began a career in politics that got him elected to the Senate. In 2000[Now moved to 2012?], Senator Ross became Lex Luthor's vice presidential running mate in Luthor's bid to become President, and after the two won, Lana moved to Washington, D.C. Eventually, Luthor was forced from his office, and Pete Ross became President (and Lana the First Lady). As she and Pete began to drift apart, Lana began to subtly attempt to regain Clark's affections, much to the anger of his (now) wife Lois Lane. Pete and Lana briefly reunited after Superman saved them from being killed by the villainous Ruin in Adventures of Superman.
In Superman #654, Perry White reported that Lana had become CEO of Lexcorp following the ousting of founder Lex Luthor. In Superman/Batman #49, it is revealed that she sold Kryptonite to the government to prevent Lexcorp from going under, and had caches of Kryptonite placed all over the planet, as a last-ditch defense if Superman should ever go rogue. When Superman and Batman come to remove the Kryptonite, Lana refuses to hand it over, and pushes a button which turns the caches into "dirty bombs" which spread Kryptonite molecules through the entire planet, forcing all Kryptonians to vacate. However, Toyman uses special nanobots to remove all of the Kryptonite molecules, undoing the damage. Superman meets with Lana again, with Lana telling him she was left with no choice. Superman responds by telling her that, while he does sometimes wonder what things would have been like if he had married her rather than Lois, there is a reason he is with Lois instead of her: Lois would never have pushed the button. After Superman flies off, someone is shown watching Lana crying on a screen, saying to her "you did perfect". Superman/Batman #63 suggests that this was Gorilla Grodd.
She later tries to help Superman, facing the time-traveling strongman Atlas, by sending the Luthor Squad. This act activates a dormant program inside the Lexcorp mainframes, an holographic version of Luthor. The holographic copy of Luthor informs Lana that by helping Superman she has violated the Lexcorp standard contract of employment ("very, very fine print"), that forbids Lexcorp employers to use Lexcorp resources for helping Kryptonians, under the penalty of termination. Lana is given five minutes to leave the building, or she will be shot to death.^[1]
New Supergirl writer Sterling Gates tells Newsarama "We're integrating Supergirl's book more into the Superman universe, and that includes having a supporting cast that overlaps with that world. I'm very interested in tying her back in to Metropolis and making sure that her world is a part of the Superman universe. Cat Grant will be a regular supporting cast member, as will Lana Lang."^[2]
Lana takes it upon herself to reach out to Supergirl. She offers her advice and friendship. Around the same time, Perry White has been actively pursuing Lana to take over the Business section of the Daily Planet, a position which Lana was afraid to accept, following her bad experience with Lexcorp. Eventually, Lana and Supergirl decide together that Lana will accept the position, and that Supergirl will take on the secret identity of Linda Lang, niece of Lana Lang. Lana now lives in Metropolis with Supergirl, and is working as the editor of the Business section of the Daily Planet.
She briefly returns to Smallville to attend Jonathan Kent's funeral. However, unable to muster enough resolve to patch up things with Clark, Lana leaves before giving him her condolences.^[3]
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In Superman Red Son by Mark Millar, Lana is re-imagined as Lana Lazarenko. Lana who grew up in the Ukraine along with a young Superman. She becomes a tour guide in a Superman museum and occasionally accompanies Superman to public events [This is interesting because in my revised version, Lana is of Ukrainian descent. The given name might even be her "Real" legal name-DD]


Lana Fulfills a Teenage Dream and Meets the Young Elvis

 

Clark and Lana, 1961 Superboy unsold Pilot






Lana Lang 1960s Heroics




Recent Photo of Lana Lang as Executive



The statement was frequently made that there was one good woman that truly loved Lex Luthor: that is something of a misstatement. There were several women that would sell their souls to have an ongoing relationship with Lex Luthor. but one woman frequently cited was the woman Ardora of "Lexor" And that is merely the name Linda Lee Danner (Supergirl) used to disguise their secret trysts in case her cousin Clark Kent should hear of them. Supergirl and Luthor had two daughters, Gloria Audrey Maude (Lori) and Minnie Lisa Lee Please remember that Linda Lee was a Midwestern farm girl born about 1920 and the names she gave her daughters reflect her tastes.. Gloria appears at the top of this page.

"Ardora" above and her counterpart, Linda Lee (AKA Mary Marvel). Yes, Ardrora is a reference to She-Ra (The reference is considering the two of them to be analogues and that requires some explaining under the "Supergirl" heading when we come to that.) The "Supergirl" that was the girlfriend of the "Luthor" with a full head of hair in the early 1990s was not the same Supergirl and that was also not the same Luthor, it was "Lionel"-Both the Silver Age Supergirl and Luthor had died by that time. That, too shall be explianed later.
Below, Gloria Luthor, Luthor's baby during the 1950s.She also tended to have adventures with Alien Invaders, Giant Monsters, and the like. She died in 2000 of a kidney failure. She was survived by two daughters from two different marriages. The eldest seeks to gain a life of adventure, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Talbott



Gloria Luthor Over-40 and Fabulous



The oldest of the two daughters is named Sylvia and she is an Interdimensional Traveller dealing in "Ultraterrestrials", and she is a Vampire-slayer. Her father was Captain Kirk in timetravel mode again, and she is sometimes accompanied by Susan Oliver.

Linda Lee's other Luthor daughter is named Minnie Lisa Lee (Luthor) and she tries not to get involved in other people's adventures. Sometimes she can't help it. She was more active in the 1960s and 1970s, more especially after her mother's death, although she did not choose to become a Supergirl herself. She passed the option on to a pair of others in the later 80s and 90s: she had at least one daughter herself, and another half-sister with also another daughter in turn (her half-niece, not a Luthor descendant) Of course this is getting too involved for much more of a blog posting this time around, and we are going to have to have more extended filmographies and other information added some other time at a future date.

Best Wishes, Dale D.