the
life of Superman. As a contemporary of the teen-aged Superman (i.e.,
Superboy) during their days in Smallville, she had a crush on Superboy,
was alternatively friendly to, and contemptuous of, mild-mannered Clark
Kent, and generally "tormented and pestered" them both in
her never-ending quest for the secret of Superboy's dual identity. As
an adult, first as a reporter for the Daily Planet and later as a celebrated
TV newscaster, she is one of Superman's best friends and Lois Lane's
arch-rival for the affections of Superman. Superman has described Lana
as a "beautiful woman" and as "the swellest girl I ever
met... except for Lois Lane!" Lana
Lang, the daughter of archaeologist and explorer Professor Lang and
the niece of Professor Potter, grew up in Smallville, where she was
in Clark Kent's class at Smallville High School. Lana's senior-class
yearbook cited her as a "class wit," but Superman #78 describes
her as "pretty, prying, and pestiferous," and draws a pointed
parallel between Lana Lang's relationship with the teen-aged Superboy
and Lois Lane's relationship with the adult
"Superman has had his troubles from the reckless rashness of
Lois Lane - but that's nothing new to him! For years ago in Smallville,
when he was Superboy, pretty, prying, pestiferous Lana Lang also used
to give him headaches!"
In
September of 1952, Lana Lang leaves Smallville and arrives in Metropolis.
She works for a time as a reporter at the Daily Planet - and shares an
apartment with Lois 
Lane
- before moving on to a new journalistic post with the Federal Syndicate.
During this time, she renews, for the first time since her teens, both
her romantic interest in Superman and her determination to unravel the
secret of his dual identity. By January 1961 she has acquired a job as
a news reporter for a television network, a post that has made her a TV
celebrity.
Clark Kent was a high school student who lived with his parents and was friends with a suspicious Lana Lang.
Lana,
basically - and innocently - made trouble for Clark/Superboy. Whether
by inadvertently making costume jewelry out of stray chunks of Kryptonite
or being too inquisitive as to Clark's whereabouts during a Super-rescue,
the redhead kept our hero hopping.
Time
passes and we see a teen-age Clark, who is the frustrated equipment
manager of the Smallville High football team. As Lara had predicted,
Clark may look human, but he never would be. And like most teenagers,
fitting in was paramount in 
his
adolescent life. When Lana Lang invites him to join the group to listen
to records, he can hardly contain himself. But Biff, the captain of
the football team, reminds Clark that he has equipment to clean up.
As they drive away, Clark's frustration surfaces and he angrily punts
a football far into the distance. After taking care of the equipment,
young Clark has some fun racing a train.
With characteristic playfulness,
Clark whizzes past the train and leaps across its path with a loud,
Yahoo, and speeds down the road to his house trailed by a cloud of dust.
He reaches his house just as Biff, Lana and the gang drive by in their
car. "How did you get here so fast," asks Lana. "I ran,"
says Clark.
Lana
Lang, the girl next door, walks back into Kent's life. Like most of us,
time has not always fulfilled the dreams that we had as wide-eyed high-school
seniors. The promise of the future fades into the reality of the present.
"It's good to see you. Wow! You look wonderful," says Clark.
"This is the first time that you've come back to this little berg
since your mom died," says Lana.
"I
heard that you and Donald split up," says Clark with a touch of
sadness. Lana had been married and wanted happiness, but realized that
Smallville is not the place that she will find it. So far, the only person
to show interest in her is Brad, former captain of the football team.
Now, all of his fame comes from memories stored at the bottom of a liquor
bottle. Obviously, this is not the best of options for a single mother.
When Brad comes up to Lana and Clark, he ignores Clark's handshake. "So,
remember when you were queen of the 
prom,
Lana? Lot's of guys in line for dances then. But it looks like ol' Brad
is the only one on your dance card tonight." "Sorry Brad,"
she says, "Clark just asked me to dance." "I did?"
asks Kent, and Lana maneuvers them out onto the floor. Gyrating strangely
to the song, Lana looks at Clark in amazement, but quickly the song becomes
a slow number and the two dance closely. It looks like a dream come true
for the hapless Kent.
The
day following the reunion, Kent helps Lana clean up the mess from the
night before. The more she speaks, the more Kent is 
attracted
to Lana. "I could always talk to you," says Lana. "I wished,"
says Clark wistfully, "that you had talked to me more... in high
school, when you were the Queen of the Prom." Lana turns to clean
up a bowl of potato salad. "Three years after the royal wedding,
the king abdicated," Lana says. "Why do I stay in Smallville?
Do you know how lucky you are living in Metropolis - the Big Apricot?
Don't get me wrong. I have a good job. I mean, I'm just a secretary, but
it pays the
bills. Except when
the heating bills went so high last winter. I had to pawn off my diamond
ring." Clark looks at her gently and apologizes for the tragedies
that befell her. Carrying a pile of dirty paper plates to a trashcan Lana
looks up at the wall where enlarged photos of the class of 1965 are hung,
and in front of her is Clark's photo. "Years later you can look at
someone and say that's the one that got away."
marriage
ended in high school one night, however, when Clark revealed he had remarkable
super powers and would be leaving Smallville. After Superman's debut,
Lex Luthor had Lana kidnapped and interrogated in an attempt to learn
Superman's secret identity, but Lana never cracked. Lana's connection
with Superman has also caused her to be brainwashed by Manhunter androids,
and injured during a fight between Superman and Matrix in Smallville.
Lana always hoped there was a chance that Clark would marry her, but eventually
gave up when Clark told her he loved Lois Lane. Lana persuaded Lois Lane
that Clark loved her when Lois had doubts. Eventually, Lana sold her family's
farm in Smallville and moved to Washington D.C where she has married another
childhood friend of Clark Kent, Pete Ross. After Ross lost his senate
position, the couple returned to Smallville.Lana was one of Lois' bridesmaids at Lois and Clark's wedding. Later, Lana was pregnant, unknown to Clark, and when she was involved in a car accident, the baby was born 2 months pre-
mature.
She called Clark to ask him if he could help save her baby. As Superman,
he was taking the infant to another hospital when Doomsday, inhabited
by Brainiac's mind, attacked him. He took the child, intending to grow
a more controllable Doomsday from his tiny body. Superman and the child's
father, Pete Ross, rescued the infant and Brainiac's technology had made
him healthy. Lana and Pete named him Clark Peter Ross.
The
Superman Family Album is a four-minutes vignettes chronicled significant
each of events in young Clark Kent's life, from the rocket landing in
Smallville, his first day in school with Lana, his 10th birthday with
Lana and friends, his first date (with Lana Lang) and his first appearance
as Superman.
When
Clark and Lana reach Shuster, they quickly adapt to college life. Clark
settles in with his roommate T.J. White, who is the son of Perry White,
editor-in-chief for the Daily
Planet in Metropolis. T.J. quickly becomes a friend to both Clark and
Lana. Just
weeks later, Superboy goes into action again. A group of terrorists steals
a powerful laser weapon created by the government. They plan to use
it on the space shuttle for sabotage. While they steal the weapon, Lana
interferes and is 
kidnapped
by the crazed leader of the group. Superboy intervenes and goes after
Lana and the laser. When Lana is taken up in a helicopter, Superboy flies
after her. The terrorist leader sees Superboy and pushes Lana out of the
helicopter toward certain doom. Superboy comes to her rescue for the first
time. "I 
don't know who you are,
or where you came from, but thank you." are Lana's first words to Clark
in his Superboy persona. When Superboy flies off leaving Lana with T.J.,
Lana notices something. "Does he remind you of somebody?" she asks T.J.
Superboy catches the terrorists and returns the laser to the government.
Clark and Lana went through some big changes when they were sent to intern at a place called the Bureau for Extra-Normal matters, an organization that investigates strange occurences and the paranormal. They met and became friends with Matt Ritter, a co-worker at the Bureau. They also met C. Dennis Jackson, their boss, who is hard on them all time, but only because he wants them to succeed.
Clark
runs into his high school Sweetheart Lana Lang which he ends up inviting
to his and Lois' wedding because he had 'no other choice' which he tells
Lois when admiting that he ran into his high school sweetheart. Lois
questions it at first, but then lets it go. After Clark and Lana depart,
Tempus comes and drags Lois into an alternate reality version of Metropolis,
where the city is filled with crime, Tempus is running for mayor, Jimmy
Olsen owns the Daily Planet, and Superman doesn't exist. Clark Kent
is afraid of using his powers in public, and is forced to hide them
by his possessive girlfriend Lana Lang. Lois encourages Clark to become
the Superman that she knows he is, and even helps him make a costume.
At the end Lois finally agrees that Lana is allowed to be at their wedding.
Lana
Lang was young Clark Kent's first love. They were boyfriend and girlfriend
through high school, but when Clark's super powers emerged, he embarked
on a self-imposed world pilgrimage to learnmore about the human race.
He left behind a very hurt Lana who already knew that her Clark was vastly
different from all the other boys on the planet. In fact, when the first
reports of Superman started coming in, Lana knew immediately that Clark
and the Man of Steel were one in the same. These days Lana is a world-renowned
fashion designer who leads a jet-setting lifestyle. She has an apartment
in Metropolis, but also
maintains
homes in Gotham, London and Rome. She seems to be the woman who has it
all, but deep down she still misses Clark and the special times they shared
before he became Superman. And yet Lana knows the world needs Superman,
and has promised to keep his secret. Her playful and flashy exterior masks
her unrequited love for Clark.
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