#elizabeth perske

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Super Titles Round-Up (May 1994)

This month: Superboy gets animated! Supergirl gets even! Steel gets that cool-ass Jon Bogdanove cover up there!

Superboy #4 (May 1994)

Superboy is pretty sick due to that pesky Clone Plague running through the Superman titles, so his friends try to cheer him up by showing him the pilot episode for Superboy: The Animated Series. The episode is about two villains called Lock 'n' Lode trying to kill Superboy's manager, Rex Leech, depicted as a handsome "philanthropist and adventurer" in the show (because he's the one who paid for it). Meanwhile, Dubbilex appears as Rex's "wacky telepathic D.N.Alien butler" and Roxy Leech as an "undulating mass of primordial slime," which neither of them appreciates.

The animated scenes are drawn by late Batman Adventures artist Mike Parobeck in that classic broad-chinned Bruce Timm style, so this issue serves as kind of a preview for the other animated-style DCU titles that would come later in the decade (I always thought it was funny that Superboy got an "animated" design before Superman himself did). Anyway, in the show, Lock 'n' Load are defeated thanks to Rex's cleverness, mastery of geometry, and flawless marksmanship, though Superboy helps too. We even get a happy ending for Roxy, as an accident in the "Super-Grotto" causes her to evolve into fungus.

Unfortunately, things are less cheerful in the real world, since the issue ends with Superboy collapsing in the kitchen and his friend Tana remarking that he's not breathing. TO BE CONTINUED!

Supergirl #4 (May 1994)

Final issue! After finding out that Lex Luthor Jr. has been playing her for a gosh-danged fool all these years, the all-new, all-edgy Supergirl goes around the world torching Lex's properties (after making sure all employees have evacuated them, because she's still a sweetheart deep down). Lex figures out what Supergirl is doing and sets an explosive trap in one of his properties that leaves her as a pool of protoplasmic goo on the ground.

But Supergirl was only playing dead, so she uses the fact that Lex thinks he killed her to surprise him at LexCorp Tower. However, once she reaches Lex's office, Supergirl finds out that the red-haired adonis she was expecting to see has been replaced with a frail bald guy in a floating wheelchair. The shock of seeing Lex like that makes Supergirl drop her guard for a moment, which is enough for him to try to kill her again. Lex crawls into his Team Luthor armor for protection, but an even-more-pissed-off Supergirl tears him out and actually throws him through a window to a certain death.

For better or worse, Superman shows up just in time to save Lex, even though he looks like he might drop dead any second anyway. Supergirl is shocked to learn that Lex wasn't lying about his sickness, especially because she would have gladly helped him if he'd just asked her instead of sneakily cloning her to try to make a cure. Supergirl morphs back into her old self as she flies away in tears.

In the epilogue, the Kents let Supergirl know she's very welcome to come live with them again, but she decides she wants to travel the world and grow as a person/sentient lump of protomatter. The miniseries ends a few months later, with Supergirl going to Paris to reunite with Lex's ex-wife Elizabeth Perske, who agrees to be her new mentor. Perske will appear in a few issues of Supergirl's solo series, but the more interesting part in this flash-forward is the mention that U.S. Congress has "passed a measure approving aid for strife-torn Metropolis." Look out for some strife in the main Superman comics, coming soon!

Steel #4 (May 1994)

Steel's evil former employers at Amertek want to get back at him for destroying their headquarters last issue, so they hit him at a place where they know he'll be: at the funeral for a kid who died during a gang fight due to their weapons. Did I mention they're evil? They send a shirtless dude hopped up on Tar, the drug that turns people into Rob Liefeld characters, to crash the funeral, and since John Henry doesn't have his armor on, he has to hit the attacker with church pews until the drug runs out. (Would have been cool if he'd built himself a new armor out of church pews on the spot.)

The attack intensifies the gang war going on in the tough streets of D.C., resulting in another little kid getting shot (an adorable boy named Paco who wanted to be a gang member when he grew up). Then, the issue ends with John's niece Natasha getting ran over by a gang member's car as she's going to the hospital to see Paco. I have a feeling this comic is trying to tell us something about gangs, but I'm not sure what it is.

Oh, yeah, this issue also features a cameo by Lois Lane: John calls her (at home, since she was just fired by the Daily Planet) to figure out what he can do with the CD full of incriminating evidence he got from Amertek's HQ. She hooks him with her college roommate, policewoman/hacker Shauna Beryl (the lady on the cover up there), who will become a recurring character in this comic.

The Ray #1 (May 1994)

In the first issue of his solo series, Ray "The Ray" Terrill takes a trip to Hawaii on the same day that a little troll creature prays to Darkseid next to a volcano, causing a giant lava monster called Brimstone to emerge (Darkseid created a previous incarnation of Brimstone during the Legends crossover). Superboy shows up to help fight Brimstone, but instead of working together, Ray spends most of the issue thinking about how much he hates this kid and calling him a cheap poser. Eventually, after Brimstone has been "defeated," Superboy has enough and punches Ray to finally get him to shut up.

By the way, this issue and the next one are supposed to take place between Superboy #3 and #4, meaning that Superboy was already seriously ill while fighting Brimstone, so I don't blame him for losing his patience with this hater. Ray then hits Superboy back with a big blast of energy and looks mighty smug for a moment... until he notices that Superboy isn't moving or breathing. Yes, that's two comics in one month that end with someone yelling that Superboy is apparently dead. Oh, and then Brimstone wakes up. TO BE CONTINUED, TOO!

Damage #1 (April 1994)

I missed this issue during the April '94 round-up (shout out to Neil in the comments for alerting me of its existence!), so here it goes. Our old pal Metallo is the main villain in the first issue of this series, which is about a wimpy kid called Grant Emerson who occasionally has bursts of explosive strength that allow him to total cars with his fists. Some mysterious villains broke Metallo out of Stryker's Island and gave him a new giant body just to send him to kill Grant at his school. The most interesting part for me is that this backstory is told in the same format as Metallo's backstory in John Byrne's Superman #1, with the green flashback panels at the end of every row.

Damage defeats Metallo, but also destroys his entire school in the process, and then other villains show up to capture him… but that has nothing to do with Superman, so it's none of our business.

NOTE: Our post about Adventures of Superman #512 went up earlier this week, check it here out if you missed it!

[story-weavr]

Lex’s Wives:

I’m having a hard time putting them in an order I like.

Who would you suppose Lex Luthor married and in what order?

Contessa Erica Alexandra del Portenza: 8th wife, board member of LexCorp & Cadmus -> divorce

Arianna Carlin_ psychiatrist, possibly psycho -> divorce

Angela Blake_ cancer patient -> died

Ardora Tharla <last name> _ alien native of Lexor; idk if I want to make her canon -> died

Helen Bryce_ a primary care physician -> divorced?

Desiree Atkins_ a former teacher? An actress? -> divorced

Gertrude Vanderworth_ a wealthy woman who died of health complications -> died

Elizabeth Perske_ a savvy wealthy businesswoman with a strong moral backbone -> divorced

What order do you all think they should be?

Let me know in the comments! 😊

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supergirl getting help from 1 of lex's ex wives who tried to warn her about him

supergirl 1993 issue 4

[mae-kent]

superfamily week prompt ideas - mae kent edition :3

day one:

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! (art prompt is the obvious mae in flight. alternatively, earth angel of fire with the fire wings! writing wise, you could always do mae as clark/supermanor shapeshifted- referencing her getting mistaken for something else.)

Metropolis & Smallville (mae's universe's metropolis. good prompt for grief, and playing around with the timeline differences between her universe and the primary one- in her universe, none of the hero/villain origin canon events happened, meaning that superboy was the only hero on earth. what might have been different in her world?)

day two:

Across Space or Time (this is a good prompt for stuff during the time she was in exile or during panic in the sky!- draaga, maxima, the cellkeeper, brainiac, wally, barda, ralph dibny, etc. also anything set after she disappears in sg96!)

Friends and Teammates (lots of opportunities for writing her with her friends!! the new titans crew, kon, draaga, lana, elizabeth perske, linda, clark, lois, etc!)

day three:

Singing Stars (maybe something with her and donna and/or kyle? not sure what to do for this.)

Hope (her being the hope of her universe, showcase era, or return of superman era just before sg94! lovely for cloitrix. maybe when she merges with linda.)

day four: this day as a whole seems good for an identity issues fic. her identity as an earthen experiment, someone who is simultaneously a young girl, over 400, and ageless, her life being run by lex and clark ideologically.

Red and Blue (her with the other superfam members.. esp her and clark or kon. maybe exploring america for further red and blue theming.)

Krypton (her and the eradicator, or maybe her and her original universe's crew or the kryptonian criminals from her universe. identity issues. mae meeting kara?)

day five:

Heart of Steel (mae and lex toxicity or mae and draaga loyalty! or show a moment of mae's odd kindness- her using her powers in an odd way to help someone, her invisibly watching over a baby she just saved. thinking to save linda via bonding physically with her. etc)

Civilian Life (give mae some time as a civilian! undercover as clark or just hiding from being recognised in public or having some fun <3)

day six

Up Up and Away (another possible earth angel wings moment! alternatively her flying with the superfam or being the air taxi for one of the non-flying heroes <3)

Of Tomorrow (something messing with her artifical nature- being created by lex, being able to reshape molecules. bonding with kon and eradicator about being artifical with a lack of childhood. alternatively, another opportunity for a post sg96 fic)

We are happy to announce the prompts for Superfamily week! Superfamily week is an event centred around Superman and his family (close as well as extended) and we wanted to reflect that through our choices in prompts. Note that the prompts are not mandatory, and can be followed as loosely or as closely as you'd like. They are as follows:

Day 1: It's a Bird! It's a Plane! / Metropolis & Smallville Day 2: Across Space or Time / Friends and Teammates Day 3: Singing Stars / Hope Day 4: Red and Blue / Krypton Day 5: Heart of Steel / Civilian Life Day 6: Up Up and Away / Of Tomorrow Day 7: Free Day

Reminder: the week will run from November 24 to November 30, 2024. Make sure to check out the week rules here.

[thedcdunce]

Lex Luthor

“Metropolis and her people are mine -- and they'll live or die as I see fit!” - Lex Luthor

Real Name: Alexander Joseph Luthor

Aliases:

Mockingbird

Gender: Male

Height: 6′ 2″

Weight: 210 lbs (95 kg)

Eyes: Green

Hair: Bald

Abilities:

Genius Level Intellect

Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic)

Weaknesses:

Arrogance

Equipment:

Kryptonite

Sunstone

Lex Luthor's Warsuit

Universe: New Earth

Base of Operations: Metropolis

Citizenship: American

Parents: 

Lionel Luthor; father

Letitia Luthor; mother

Marital Status: 

Divorced (Elizabeth Perske; wife)

Widowed (Contessa Erica Alexandra del Portenza; wife)

Occupation:

Businessman

Scientist

President of the United States

First Appearance: Swamp Thing Vol 2 #52 (September, 1986)

Last Appearance: Convergence #6 (July, 2015)

Abilities

Genius Level Intellect: Luthor's intelligence is nearly unrivaled, making one of the smartest minds on Earth. Luthor has solved complicated equations in a few minutes and holds a myriad of masters and degrees. He's found cures for diseases in deep thought and found ways to better mankind while still profiting from its destruction.

Business Management: Lex Luthor is one of the most shrewd businessmen in the world, a trait that has earned him an immense fortune. Luthor is not above using cutthroat tactics, unethical practices and illegal operations to maintain the success of his business empire. Lex Luthor virtually owned every business enterprise in the city of Metropolis.

Political Science: Lex Luthor's corporate skills applied just as sharply in the political arena as they did in the boardroom. As President of the United States, he groomed the best candidates to serve as his cabinet members and knew the intricacies of bureaucratic politicking as well as any other former Chief Executive.

Leadership: Although Luthor's tenure as president ended in scandal, he successfully guided the nation during the massive alien invasion. He's led a large amount of supervillain teams and done so quite effectively.

Science: Lex has solved complicated chemical equations in seconds. He understands the variety of powers associated with the human metagene and manipulated it for his own purposes. He claims he found a cure for cancer as well as AIDS but holds them in his personal notes to better bank on it's research.

Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic): Lex Luthor is also trained in hand-to-hand combat, though his personal Amazon fighting instructors consider him a sub-par combatant with poor form.

Weaknesses

Arrogance

Equipment

Kryptonite

Sunstone

Lex Luthor's Warsuit

Personality

Luthor is commonly seen as a power-hungry and sadistic villain of pure evil. His sole ambition in life is to destroy Superman so that he can become humanity's rightful champion.

Luthor was already antisocial and bitter during his childhood. Having endured continuous abuse from his father and mother, Luthor murdered them and made their deaths look like an accident. Since then, Luthor has become more and more ruthless, seeing people as tools to be manipulated or as enemies to be destroyed. His hatred grew even more when Superman first appeared, as Luthor believed the people of Metropolis had replaced him for Superman as the city's savior. Swearing vengeance on Superman, Luthor has tried to destroy the Man of Steel for an eternity.

For all his attempts to destroy Superman, Luthor sees himself as a hero and Superman as a villain. He believes Superman's heroic acts are an obstacle for human progress. Luthor has stated on many occasions that after he destroys Superman, he will work towards the betterment of mankind. However, Superman has proven that Luthor will not keep this supposed promise, noting that Luthor did nothing during Superman's year-long absence after his fight with Superboy-Prime but find an old Kryptonian warship to break things.

Luthor's primary handicap in facing Superman and other heroes has always been his arrogance. As he fundamentally defines himself by his opposition to Superman, he believes that the reverse is also true, convinced that most of Superman's actions are simply to prove that he is 'better' than Luthor, incapable of recognizing how Superman and other heroes would do good for the sake of it.

Despite his crimes, Luthor has established an image as a wealthy philanthropist and manages to maintain a notable political popularity.

Early Life

Lex Luthor was born and raised in the poverty stricken area of Metropolis known as Suicide Slum, the child of abusive parents, with a fierce desire to better himself. Cunning, vengeful and ambitious even at a young age, Lex was every bit the charismatic and malicious manipulator he is in his adulthood. Such that he could enlist the ne'er-do-well's of the ghetto to dispatch bullies for him, was a habitual misogynist who was cruel to the girls of his classroom, his own teachers were even frightened by him. And as a teenager, young Lex engineered the deaths of his parents by paying off or threatening their auto-mechanic to sabotage their automobile in order to profit from a large life insurance policy he had taken out in their names, and went on to found his own company LexCorp.

Luthor the Businessman

Lex turned the company into a multi-national corporation that would ultimately come to dominate the city of Metropolis. With it he owns every media corporation in the city and uses them to reinforce his public image as a wealthy benefactor. The one paper outlet that had always stood free was the Daily Planet. One such critic was the young reporter, and Editor In Chief, Perry White. Luthor detested White, due to his outspoken attitudes and a release by the Planet condemning his actions with an outrageous editorial signed by White himself. As a result, when Clark Kent is first inducted into the Planet, the newspaper is almost bankrupt, dilapidated, and unable to afford new reporters. Luthor made many criminal connections and industries, anything to help him rise to be the unchallenged master of Metropolis. His legitimate businesses attached to LexCorp cover a variety of enterprises ranging from telephone companies to personal gaming devices. As part of his image, Lex created the illusion of being a caring philanthropist. He became the most powerful man in Metropolis, both financially and in the world of organized crime. Lex would create havoc on the streets by selling weapons to the gangs of Metropolis and using his primarily female staff of underlings to keep blackmail files on all of the major organized crime groups in the city. Lex could use them to further any schemes he had planned. However, this all ended with the arrival of Superman.

Superman Arrives

Several months after Superman first arrived in Metropolis, terrorists attacked a society gala aboard Luthor's yacht. Lois Lane, whom Luthor had tried to romance as a ninth trophy wife some time before, was present during the attack which was stopped by Superman. Luthor tried unsuccessfully to hire Superman as a bodyguard. But when he admitted that he had known the attack was to occur and had allowed it to proceed in order to see Superman in action first hand, Mayor Berkowitz deputized Superman on the spot to arrest Luthor for reckless endangerment. He avoided prison thanks to a legal technicality, but still had to endure the humiliation of being publicly led away under arrest.

Luthor vowed to destroy Superman for this humiliation, and he has since devoted much time and energy to that goal. An early attempt led to the creation of an imperfect clone of Superman meant to destroy him, but was unsuccessful because Superman's alien DNA made the clone unstable. Luthor continued his vendetta. He was a man driven to be the best, having fought his way up from lowly beginnings by his own efforts, and was resentful of how Superman was given his powers by random fate of birth. Superman survived subsequent attempts Luthor made on his life, but he had never been able to prove Luthor's role in the attacks. Aside from Lex's immense wealth and connections, he was able to weasel his way out of trouble due to the fact that Superman, being liable as a witness, would have to reveal his true identity in court to testify against him.

Kryptonite Power

Luthor soon acquired the only known sample of Kryptonite on Earth from the kryptonite-powered cyborg Metallo, whom LexCorp abducted just before Metallo succeeded in killing Superman. Fashioning a signet ring from the alien ore deadly to Superman, Luthor began wearing it constantly to ward off his enemy. Unfortunately, Luthor suffered from severe cancer in the 1990s, caused by long-term radiation exposure to his Kryptonite ring. Later, he would find a way to protect himself from its side effects. He also discovered more than one kind of Kryptonite, which he would later use in his battles against Superman.

Faking his Own Death

Luthor's hand soon had to be amputated and replaced by a prosthetic version to prevent the cancer's spread, but unfortunately by then it had already metastasized. It was eventually determined that the disease was terminal. Luthor faked his own death shortly afterward by taking his personally designed jet, the Lexwing, on a proposed trip around the world. He crashed it in the Andes of Peru as a cover for the transplant of his brain into a healthy clone of himself which he passed off as his hitherto unknown son and heir by Dr. Gretchen Kelley, Lex Luthor II. The young Luthor had apparently been secretly raised by foster parents in Australia to protect him from his father's enemies. This deception was bolstered by his new body having a full head of red hair and a beard, as well as the appropriate Australian accent created through use of audio teaching tapes.

Send in the Clone

Luthor used his new identity as his own son to seduce Supergirl and continue to torment Superman from the shadows. However, everything quickly fell apart when Luthor's new clone body began to deteriorate and age at a rapid rate. This caused Luthor to begin to slip. Lois Lane discovered proof that Lex Luthor had murdered a female LexCorp employee and framed an innocent man for the murder years earlier. This led to Lois finding the truth about Lex faking his death and being his own son. This caused Luthor to systematically destroy Lois's life and have her fired from the Daily Planet. Lois fought back, and with help from Superman, exposed the truth about Lex Luthor, his faked death, and his evil criminal activities to the public. Luthor, right before his body became so old that he couldn't move or communicate, activated a "Doomsday Plan" to destroy Metropolis. The city was burned to the ground and thousands killed as Luthor became a permanent prisoner in his cloned body. However, aid would come in the form of the demon Neron. Luthor sold his soul in exchange for Neron restoring his body to perfect health. Returning to a rebuilt Metropolis, Luthor turned himself over to the police and was put on trial. He was acquitted of all crimes when Luthor claimed to have been kidnapped by renegade scientists who replaced him with a clone responsible for all the crimes he was charged with.

Luthor the Philanthropist

Lex Luthor had cultivated a popular image as a great philanthropist. He had been instrumental in reverse-engineering alien technology for use in general consumer goods, upgrading Metropolis into a true "City of Tomorrow." When Gotham City was destroyed by an earthquake and abandoned by the American government, it was LexCorp that took up the massive task of rebuilding the city. Later, Luthor also played an instrumental role in assisting the Justice League in recharging the sun during the Final Night storyline.

Despite his hatred for Lois Lane for temporarily bringing down his evil criminal empire, Lex Luthor has an unspoken love for her. On several occasions Luthor has commented that had Superman not arrived in Metropolis, Lex would have used his time and energy to romantically pursue Lois and marry her. He has been married eight times in his life, though the first seven marriages occurred off-panel in Luthor's past sometime before Superman showed up in Metropolis. While his previous seven marriages were hinted to have been based on love, Luthor's eighth marriage to Contessa Erica Alexandra del Portenza was a marriage that was based on mutual manipulation and greed. The Contessa had bought controlling interest in LexCorp after Luthor was exposed as evil, forcing Lex into a marriage with her in order to regain control over the company. The marriage was doomed from the beginning as the two fought constantly and never loved each other. The Contessa became pregnant with Lex's child and began using the unborn child to dominate Lex into doing her bidding. Luthor's response to the Contessa's actions was to use her desire to be unconscious during childbirth to lock her in the basement of his corporate headquarters in a permanently-drugged unconscious state. Luthor took over as a single father to his daughter and vowed never to marry again, stating that he wanted to never have to share his daughter's love with anyone else. It was later implied that Lex killed the Contessa months afterward, although no body was ever found.

President of the United States

Lex became the President of the United States, winning the election on a platform of promoting technological progresses for the common people. His first action as President was to take a proposed moratorium on fossil-based fuels to U.S. Congress in hopes of putting "a flying car in every garage". Despite Luthor's more villainous traits, he was assisted by the extreme unpopularity of the previous administration due to its mishandling of the No Man's Land crisis. Ironically, Batman would ultimately learn that Luthor was involved in the mishandling of the Gotham City rebuilding process, provoking Bruce Wayne to sever all military contract ties between the U.S. government and Wayne Enterprises. Luthor responded by ordering the murder of Batman's lover Vesper Fairchild and framing Bruce Wayne for the murder.

One of the greater successes that came with his emancipation presented itself in the form of the ultimate revelation. A CIA informant presented him with the surveillance footage of an extraterrestrial object landing near Smallville, Kansas. Wishing to keep this information personal, Lex disintegrated his lowly whitsleblower while pretending it was a mess to be cleaned up as he ruminated over the epiphany of "Clark Kent is Superman". He would soon lose this information along with any memory of extra backups of it when Manchester Black, former head of his presidential sanctioned Suicide Squad, erased it from his mind moments before committing suicide.

An early triumph of his political career was his handling of the Imperiex War, in which he coordinated the U.S. Army, Earth's superheroes and a number of untrustworthy alien forces to battle the story's villain, Imperiex. However, as it would later be revealed, Lex knew about the alien invasion in advance and did nothing to alert Earth's heroes to it.

Impeachment

Lex Luthor finally accepted Superman's secret identity as Clark Kent. He had been aware of this from their earliest meetings but refused to accept it for his own personal belief that people of power always crave and reflect themselves as people of power, never as one of the masses. Thus, to Luthor, a being like Superman would never try and pass himself off as Clark Kent who was less than extraordinary. In a story published in 2002, a lowly scientist was able to get a meeting with Lex and reveal top secret government documents showing the rocket containing baby Superman crashing near the farm of Martha and Jonathan Kent. Killing the scientist, Lex surprisingly decided to keep the knowledge a secret. He did so regardless that Clark Kent took the fall for Lois publishing proof that Lex Luthor knew of the alien invasion of "Our Worlds At War," but had opted not to make any defensive plans to save the people of Kansas from attack. Clark was fired from the Daily Planet as a result of Manchester Black using his telepathic powers on an unknowing Lex to allow him to pass an assortment of lie detector tests to prove that Lois and Clark's story was a lie. When Manchester Black tried to kill Superman and his friends and family, Luthor came to Superman's aid. He admitted that he had kept Superman's identity as Clark Kent secret both out of a sense of nostalgia for their past confrontations and the knowledge that revealing the truth about Superman would endanger Lois, nearly the only woman he cared for. In the end, Manchester Black was defeated and as revenge for Lex helping Superman defeat him, Black erased all knowledge that Clark Kent was Superman from Lex's mind before taking his own life.

Later, as his success at framing Bruce Wayne for the murder of Vesper Fairchild caused him to get arrogant, Luthor once again overplayed his hand in an attempt to blame Superman for a kryptonite meteor approaching the Earth. Initially convinced that everyone would listen to his claims against Superman simply because he was President despite his failure to produce any evidence of Superman's 'guilt', he instead raised questions about himself as Superman and Batman uncovered a plot of Luthor's to further torment Batman that involved tricking Batman into thinking that Metallo was the man who killed Batman's parents. In desperation, he used a variant combination of the "super-steroid" Venom, liquid synthetic green kryptonite, and an Apokaliptian battlesuit to battle Superman directly. Unfortunately, the madness that is a side effect of Venom took hold, and he revealed his true colors during the battle. The final straw was the revelation that Talia Head, the acting CEO of LexCorp, had sold all the company assets to the Wayne Foundation. He has since gone underground, leaving the Presidency to his Vice President, Pete Ross.

Infinite Crisis

Lex Luthor had retreated into obscurity before the events of Infinite Crisis, as he prepared to try and activate the mind control programming inside the brain of then current Superboy to help him gain revenge against Earth's mightiest heroes. He was also revealed to have orchestrated, with help from the newly created robotic Brainiac, the murder of Teen Titan member Donna Troy, who is destined to play a critical role in "Infinite Crisis". He's also been carefully surveying the new Supergirl, and has plans for her involving his newly-acquired Black Kryptonite.

With Lex Luthor acting in secret, Alexander Luthor, Jr. returned to New Earth and began his own plot that was interfering with Lex's own plans. Assuming the Post-Crisis Lex Luthor's identity, Alexander began an elaborate scheme, with help from Superboy-Prime and Kal-L, to restore the original Multiverse. His intentions were not just to recreate them as they once were, but as the basis of his ultimate goal, as he told Superboy-Prime that he would help them "whether [he] likes it or not".

As one of the premier reformers of the "Secret Society of Super-Villains", Alexander Luthor, Jr. recruited Black Adam, Doctor Psycho, Calculator, Talia Head, and Deathstroke as his inner circle. The new Society exploited the villain community's fear of mind-wipes at the hands of the Justice League as a means to recruit an army of villains under the premise of creating their own "mind-wipe" device to erase the memories of Earth's heroes as payback. However, this was just another cover for his even darker scheme involving the kidnapping of heroes, each representing alternate Earths, to power the giant tower being used to alter reality. Alexander Luthor, Jr., formerly of Earth-Three, had decided to restore the previously existing multiverse as a base selection to create a so-called "perfect" universe, as the current reality seemed to be failing. It was, in Alexander Luthor, Jr.'s own words, " a world of villains". Abandoned by his allies, Alex Jr. was depowered, due to the villains that Lex assembled under his alias of Mockingbird. Lex tracked down the supposedly depowered Alex Jr. and allowed the Joker to kill him in a fit of revenge.

Lex used Alex's corpse as evidence that he had an impostor who was responsible for all his recent illegal activities. He was cleared of many of the criminal actions he was accused of.

Post Infinite Crisis Origin

The events of Infinite Crisis and Alex Luthor's attempts to rewrite history actually led to alterations in Lex Luthor's personal history. In the newly created time line, the current Luthor family has a long history with the city of Metropolis. Some of Lex's ancestors were among the pilgrims who founded the city, others were amongst the Native Americans who were there to meet them. Over the centuries, the Luthor family became wealthy and influential. Lex's great-grandfather Wallace Luthor being a millionaire industrialist at the beginning of the 20th Century. He lost his fortune though, in the stock market crash of 1929, and went to his grave a pauper after having to declare bankruptcy. The family fortune would not be rebuilt until the arrival of Lex Luthor, the son of abusive alcoholic Lionel Luthor and his wife Letitia. Lex cared little for his parents, though he did love his sister Lena. In his teens, he lived for a time in Smallville with his aunt, also called Lena, and there met the young Clark Kent and his friends Lana Lang and Pete Ross. The stand-offish and superior Lex was friendly with Clark for a time, but eventually left Smallville under a cloud of suspicion after his father died in mysterious circumstances. Leaving his sister in Smallville, Lex went to Metropolis and, as before, founded LexCorp.

Superman Arrives (Again)

In this new timeline, Luthor's first meeting with Superman was also somewhat different. As part of his philanthropic image, Luthor had taken to picking a random person from the supplicants who gathered at LexCorp's gates every morning to bestow the chance of a new life upon them. His choice on this occasion, though, was Rudy Jones who, after eating a doughnut contaminated by an unknown radioactive chemical compound, was transformed into the Parasite. Superman stopped the Parasite's rampage, overshadowing Luthor and infuriating him. Lex contacted General Sam Lane, who was convinced Superman was a threat, and informed him that Superman was an alien. He transformed one of Lane's men, Sgt John Corben, into Metallo and sent him out after Superman. However, Metallo was defeated and Superman, previously an object of suspicion in the city, feted as a hero. When Luthor came to bestow his gifts on a grateful populace the next day, no-one was there. Lex was no longer the most powerful man in Metropolis. This cemented Lex's lifelong hatred of the Man of Steel. Eventually, as before, Luthor went from hero of the people to public enemy number one.

52

Through his still impressive financial resources, Lex has engaged in a public promotion campaign to regain his popularity through the Everyman Project, a scientific process that could grant superhuman powers to non-metahumans. The first several subjects of his process became the latest incarnation of Infinity, Inc. Luthor's own body, however, was not compatible with the process, a fact which pained him greatly.

When newly minted meta-humans began falling out of the sky, the media-dubbed Fall Of The Supermen, Luthor's building was attacked by John Henry Irons and his niece. Steel confronted Luthor and was beaten, Lex having discovered a way to gain meta-powers of his own. Lex was still defeated, however, and arrested. It was later found that the Lex that was imprisoned was, in fact, Everyman. Lex was found in a hidden room still inside the Lexcorp building.

One Year Later and Countdown

One year after the events of Infinite Crisis, Luthor had been cleared of over 120 criminal counts ranging from malfeasance to first-degree murder relating to the New Year's Eve massacre from 52. However, his role in the massacre has permanently ruined his public image and, thanks to the machinations of Doctor Sivana, has lost most of his wealth and all of his control over his newly reformed LexCorp, run by Lana Lang. He blames Clark Kent for writing several articles unraveling his schemes and pledges vengeance on Metropolis after an angry mob jeers him on the courthouse steps. After amassing large quantities of Kryptonite, and kidnapping the supervillains Metallo and Kryptonite Man, Lex uses it to power a Kryptonian battleship controlled through a "sunstone" crystal, using it to lash out at Metropolis for 'forgetting' him. While giant crystal formations began to appear throughout the ground, Superman tried to save as many people as he could and find the source of the attack. He found Lex high above the city in a ship made of the crystal where he was controlling it all from. Lex turned all of the crystal into kryptonite, forcing Superman to stay away from Metropolis and the ship, but he didn't count on Superman charging him. Superman knew Luthor would have some form of personal shielding and was right as they both fell down towards the ground. Luthor had time to say one thing: “I hate you. So much.” Superman was again powerless and Luthor's shield was weak when they struck the ground. They both arose weak and injured, and Lex began to fist-fight with Superman. With each traded punch, Lex spoke of how if Superman hadn't arrived on Earth and came to Metropolis, he would have made so many scientific breakthroughs instead of trying to come up with ways to destroy him, claiming that it was all Superman's fault that Lex wasn't the top of the food chain anymore. Superman countered with the fact that he had been away for an entire year, yet Luthor had accomplished none of these things he claimed he could have done, simply finding a big machine so that he could break things. The fight ended with Superman victorious.

Luthor was subsequently abducted from prison and drafted in Project 7734 under General Lane. He had hopes of using the project to fulfill his goals against Superman, but Lane had been keeping him on topic.

Lex later sends Bizarro after the newly arrived "Superboy" only for the creature to be defeated by Superman. Undaunted, Luthor gathers together a new Revenge Squad to fight against invading Kryptonians led by General Zod, working alongside Superman only so that Superman can see that Luthor was right about the threat he poses to Earth.

In JLA, Luthor gathers together a new "Injustice League" and, outfitted in a new version of his warsuit, sets out to destroy the Justice League with them. On a related note during this section, he was responsible for creating the third Shaggy Man and the third Blockbuster.

Luthor plays a large role in the Countdown to Final Crisis tie-in event, Salvation Run. Having been sent to the prison planet after his Injustice League was defeated, Lex quickly assumes control of the amassed villains. He received competition only from Joker and Gorilla Grodd, who convince half of the villains to join them. He does fight the Joker until the battle was interrupted by an attack by Desaad's Parademons. After the attack, Luthor manages to get the villains off the planet with a makeshift teleporter, secretly powered by Neutron, Heatmonger, Plasmus, Warp, Thunder and Lightning. When called a "monster" by Thunder, Luthor claims it is the ones who sent them there who are the real monsters, and that he is the hero. He later sets the teleporter to self-destruct after he uses it, killing the attacking Parademons, and his living batteries.

Final Crisis

Luthor associated with Libra's Secret Society of Super Villains and placed in its Inner Circle. Lex Luthor wanted Libra to prove himself, so Libra sends Clayface to blow up the Daily Planet building. As Lex Luthor attempts to ambush Libra after learning that he is a prophet of Darkseid, Luthor soon ends up surrounded by Justifiers. Libra tells Lex Luthor to make a final choice... swear an oath to Darkseid or become a mindless slave. Later, Lex Luthor witnessed Libra blaming Calculator for cracking the computer codes that will help the resistance. Luthor was silent on the matter and was picked to lead the rearguard action against the heroes at Blüdhaven. He assumed it as an honor, but he didn't look very pleased. A short time later, Libra figured out that Luthor had been the mole in the Society of Supervillains. Luthor, in league with Doctor Sivana, seemingly destroyed Libra and overturned the Anti-Life Equation being broadcast into the Justifiers' helmets.

New Krypton

Luthor ended up imprisoned for his crimes, but rather than going to jail, General Sam Lane had him serve out his sentence working for the secretive Project 7734. While still forced to wear chains, Luthor was assigned the job of accessing the knowledge stored within the captured Brainiac who had recently been defeated by Superman. Luthor successfully accessed Brainiac's brain and after Metallo and Reactron were taken to Kandor as prisoners of the Kryptonians who had now settled on Earth, he used Brainiac to reactivate the Coluans ship that was also being held in Kandor. Brainiac's robots attacked the Kryptonians, providing a distraction as Metallo and Reactron used their Kryptonite hearts to kill their captors and murder Zor-El.

After his success with Brainiac, Luthor was given the seemingly dead body of Doomsday, who had been defeated by the Kryptonians, to study as it had “potential.”

Luthor later manages to use Brainiac's connection to his ship to kill the soldiers assigned to watch him. Brainiac manages to free himself from Luthor's control, forcing him onboard the ship, and the two make their escape. The two are later shown to have entered into an alliance, with Brainiac promising Luthor the Earth when he is done with it. While reading newspapers to catch up on what happened during his imprisonment, Luthor learns of the resurrection of Superboy.

Blackest Night

During the Blackest Night event, when word gets out that apparently everyone around the world are rising as undead Black Lanterns, Luthor isolates himself in his safehouse in fear of all the people he had murdered over the years seeking revenge on him. In Blackest Night Vol 1 6, it is seen that Luthor is being attacked in his safehouse by Black Lanterns, including his father. An Orange Lantern Ring arrives and attaches itself to Luthor, inducting him into the Orange Lantern Corps as a deputy member, only for him to attack Scarecrow and Mera to claim their Yellow Lantern Corps ring and Red Lantern Ring before his own was taken from him by Larfleeze, the only true member of the Orange Lantern Corps, who subsequently dismissively dropped Luthor in front of the other Lanterns.

Brightest Day

After the conclusion of the New Krypton event, Luthor grew more aggressive for the lust for power after his exposure to a power ring during the Blackest Night. After being infused with the Orange Light of Avarice, Luthor begins a universal quest to locate the energy of the Black Lantern Corps.

During the midst of the Brightest Day, Deathstroke and his new team of Titans are hired to assassinate Luthor while he is visiting Midway City with Nava Mendelssohn, his new personal assistant and bodyguard. When the Titans ambush Lex's convoy and begin killing his hired mercenaries, Nava takes him into the sewers, where she is shot and apparently killed by Deathstroke. It is then revealed that Luthor himself had paid the Titans to fake an attempt on his life, in hopes that it would draw out conspirators within LexCorp. Nava's injuries soon heal, and she reveals herself to be a shapeshifter named Facade, who had murdered and impersonated the real Nava in order to get close enough to Lex to kill him. After a massive battle, Deathstroke and Osiris are able to defeat Facade and turn him over to Lex. In the end, LexCorp scientists are shown performing experiments on the captured Facade. Luthor assembles his staff and reveals that he knows that it was one of his employees who had hired the creature in the first place. Luthor warns them not to try such a tactic again, as he will turn them into his next morbid experiment if they do.

With the aid of a robotic duplicate of Lois Lane created to give him an honest opinion on his actions, Luthor searched for the energy of the Black Lantern in space. In doing so he sent Doomsday 'clones' created from the original to distract Earth's heroes. There Luthor encountered Brainiac in while attempting to alter the last of the Black Lantern energy, acting upon an unspoken theory of his. Brainiac revealed that Loisbot was an unwilling pawn in his bid to hijack Luthor's quest. Luthor then replied that he had anticipated this for some time, he then attacked Brainiac and snapped his neck, temporarily incapacitating him. Loisbot pleaded for Lex's forgivness, and he accepted her apology. After he altered the four remaining black spheres, he opened a Phantom Zone portal which unleashed an extremely powerful, monstrously large being which intended to kill all life in the universe because the negative emotions of sentient creatures hurt it. Luthor promptly impaled Loisbot's head, allowing himself to be infected with Kryptonian technology. He used it to engage the monster on a mental plane of existence. Grappling with the creature, Luthor's body and mental essence suddenly fused with it. Luthor learned that it evolved in the Phantom Zone and now seeks to escape from the grief and anger of the Zone prisoners. Using this new power, Luthor draws Superman to him, attempting to drive Superman mad by forcing him to experience the human emotions that he believes the alien merely fakes to blend in. However, Luthor is outraged when he learns that Superman's defining moment of tragedy is the loss of his father, confirming his true identity as Clark Kent. Being unable to cope with the fact that not only was his greatest enemy an old associate who was raised by humans, but he also had a father he would actually mourn rather than the anguish Luthor endured in his own relationship with his father. As Luthor becomes one with the creature, Superman and Mr. Mind, who had been aiding Luthor's search, realize that the creature allows Luthor to create a feeling of peace and bliss throughout the entire universe at the cost of never allowing him to cause any harm to another being at the same time. Superman attempts to appeal to Luthor about the potential of doing something even he never accomplished, but Luthor is unable to let go of his hate for Superman, his subsequent attack costing him control of the entity, as well as his memory of everything he learned or did while he was merged with it. It departs for another part of the universe. Luthor is ultimately defeated when he falls into one of the Phantom Zone holes created by the creature, seemingly forever.

Fun Facts

In addition to the details of Luthor's early life and upbringing having been changed somewhat by the events of Infinite Crisis, his hair color has also changed. In the former timeline, he had red hair, but the current Luthor's hair was brown. Since his hair eventually receded leaving him bald in both versions of his history, this is largely unimportant.

Lex's birthday is often given as September 28th.

Lex Luthor self-identifies as an atheist.

Luthor wears reading glasses, as shown in "Metropolis - 900 Mi."

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The Pin-Up Ladies Who Outlined An Complete Business

Ever because the first pin-up fashions started to be created, there was a subculture of photographers who’ve continued to experiment with the style. In recent times, we now have witnessed the reemergence of the pin-up mannequin due to the web. The largest pin-up women of all time arrived to between the Roaring ’20s and 1960s. These weren’t simply ladies who appeared in entrance of a movie digicam — many had been a few of the largest Academy Award winners and nominees in Hollywood. There’s even one pin-up lady who went on to create a radio-technology that we nonetheless use in trendy Wi-Fi networks to this very day. In celebration of this artwork kind, we current you with a few of the most well-known and controversial pin-up fashions of the previous 100 years.

Kim Novak is a retired American movie and TV actress. In 1954 she signed with Columbia Footage and shortly grew to become a star. She acted in varied profitable movies together with The Man with the Golden Arm, Pal Joey, and Alfred Hitchcock’s hit film Vertigo. The pin-up motion was sturdy within the 1950s and Novak was one of the crucial widespread fashions, due to a number of bathing swimsuit photograph shoots. At one level, Kim Novak was in a relationship with Sammy Davis, Jr. Nonetheless, it was thought-about extraordinarily controversial as a result of he was black and she or he was white. It’s even been reported that Henry Cohn had mobsters threaten Davis as a way to be sure she stopped relationship him. Novak continues to be alive, on the age of of 83, and resides in Oregon.

In 1941, Ava Lavinia Gardner was signed by MGM Studios. She appeared in varied smaller roles till her efficiency in The Killers in 1946. By 1953 she had been nominated for an Academy Awards for Greatest Actress after starring in Mogambo. She continued to work in dozens of movies till her dying in 1990.

Ava Gardner was additionally recognized, at the least by means of gossip, as a little bit of a person eater. She was mentioned by some to have damaged the hearts of each Frank Sinatra and Howard Hughes. She was married thrice, to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and at last, Frank Sinatra.

Sofia Villani Scicolone is an Italian movie actress who was first found in 1950 at 15 years previous. Her profession began with some massive roles in movies. She floated round Hollywood till 1962 when her efficiency as Cesira in Vittorio De Scia’s Two Girls earned her the Academy Award for Greatest Actress.

She continued to behave late into her profession, showing in Grumpier Previous Males and 9. Her love life just isn’t with out scandal. It’s mentioned that whereas she and Cary Grant had been filming the 1958 movie Houseboat, they had been additionally having an affair. To make issues even…extra attention-grabbing, Grant’s spouse wrote the script.

Elizabeth Ruth “Betty” Grable was recognized for her abilities as a dancer, singer, actress, and pin-up mannequin. Grable appeared in 42 movies within the 1930s and 1940s, which grossed greater than $100 million. In actual fact, the Treasury Division reported that she was the highest-paid American lady in 1946-1947.

That’s some declare! This famed pin-up mannequin began her profession as an actress in 1929 when she was simply 12 years previous. Her first massive movie was Down Argentine Means in 1940. She is probably greatest recognized for her bathing swimsuit poster, which was named by Life journal as one in all “100 Images that Modified the World.” She retired in 1955 however continued to make occasional the looks in movies and tv.

Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who skyrocketed to fame in silent movies within the 1920s after which by means of “talkies” (films with sound, what we simply name films immediately) after 1927. She was the personification of the Roaring Twenties and a number one pin-up image. Business specialists say her title hooked up to a movie was assured to safe funding from buyers.

She appeared in 46 silent movies and 11 talkies. In September 1965, Bow died of a coronary heart assault on the age of 60. Whereas she was alive, she was the topic of many an city delusion. Most if not all weren’t true. She was accused of dependancy points, incest, bestiality, amongst different issues. These had been simply indicators that society didn’t like a ladies like her having a lot energy or consideration.

Carole Lombard was recruited at simply 12 years previous by movie director Allan Dwan to seem in his 1921 movie A Excellent Crime. At 16, she signed a contract with Fox however appeared month-to-month briefly comedies from 1927 by means of 1929.

Finally she began showing in excessive profile movies similar to Excessive Voltage and The Racketeer. Lombard’s life and profession had been sadly reduce brief at simply 33 years previous. She was getting back from a Conflict Bond tour when her aircraft crashed in Mount Potosi, Nevada. She was killed within the crash. She was married to her second husband, Clark Gable, on the time.

Brigitte Anna-Marie Bardot is a French born actress and probably the greatest recognized pin-up symbols of the 1950s and 1960s. She started her appearing profession in 1952 and appeared in 16 comedies that obtained solely restricted worldwide launch. In 1952 Bardot grew to become a world-renowned actress after showing within the controversial movie And God Created Lady.

Bardot retired from Hollywood in 1973. She had starred in 47 movies, a number of musicals, and recorded 60 songs by the point of her retirement. She was additionally closely concerned in preventing for animal rights. Amongst many causes, she was enthusiastic about protesting bullfighting and was a vegetarian.

Norma Jeane Mortenson was born in 1926. Greatest recognized by her movie title, Marilyn Monroe, she is basically thought-about the best Hollywood pin-up image of all time. Monroe rose to fame by taking part in “dumb blonde” characters within the 1950s. Not like lots of the different fashions on our record, Monroe truly began her profession as a pin-up star. She was found by a photographer whereas she was working in a manufacturing unit in 1944.

Her pin-up profession led to a short-lived movie contract with Twentieth Century-Fox. In 1948, she then signed with Columbia Footage, solely to re-sign with Fox in 1951. She ultimately grew to become well-known for her roles in Younger as You Really feel and Monkey Enterprise. Monroe later confronted a scandal when it was revealed she had posed for a set of nude pictures earlier than her movie profession took off. She was discovered useless at her house in Los Angeles on August 5, 1962. Her dying was dominated a possible suicide, however varied different theories have surfaced through the years.

Born Betty Joan Perske, Lauren Bacall was an American actress recognized for her distinctive voice and sultry seems to be. She was a central determine within the Golden Age of movement photos however truly started her profession as a mannequin.

She made her debut within the Humphrey Bogart movie To Have and Have Not in 1944, and was a serious participant within the movie noir style for years to come back. She co-starred with John Wayne in his ultimate movie The Shootist in 1976. A star of movie and stage, she received Tony awards for “Applause” and “Lady of the 12 months.” One month earlier than she turned 90, Bacall died of a stroke at her house in New York Metropolis.

Born Diana Mary Fluck, this famed pin-up mannequin and English actress got here to fame by means of racy film-comedies and risqué modeling. It was found that her first husband, Dennis Hamilton, was exploiting her funds for his personal private acquire. To save lots of her profession she began to play up her seductive picture by internet hosting grownup events at her house.

She ultimately re-established her profession as a star of TV and cabaret. She died pretty younger, on the age of 52, from ovarian most cancers in 1984. She had supposedly hidden away hundreds of thousands and given her son a replica of the codes to the banks. Nonetheless, the cash was by no means recovered. It’s all shrouded in a little bit of thriller.

Born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian and American movie actress. She started her profession in Germany with the controversial movie Ecstasy. She ultimately fled from her husband and moved to Paris. There she met MGM head Louis B. Mayer, who provided her a Hollywood movie profession. From the 1930’s by means of the 1950’s she was a bonafide Hollywood star. She wasn’t only a fairly face.

Through the begin of World Conflict II she labored with composer George Antheil to develop a radio steerage system for Allied torpedoes. The system used an expansion spectrum and frequency hopping expertise to defeat the specter of jamming by the Axis powers. Her expertise is extensively used immediately in Wi-Fi, CDMA, and Bluetooth applied sciences.

Rita Hayworth was a dancer and American actress who rose to fame within the 1940s. Throughout her 37 yr profession she appeared in 61 movies. As a glamorous display actress she was generally known as the “love goddess.” She was the highest considered pin-up lady for GIs throughout World Conflict II.

Her best Hollywood success was the 1944 hit Cowl Lady which she co-starred in with Gene Kelly. When it comes to her love life, which was by no means boring, Rita Hayworth was married 5 occasions to Edward C. Judson, Orson Welles, Prince Aly Khan, Dick Haymes, and James Hill. She handed away at 68-years-old after affected by Alzheimer’s illness.

Born in 1933, Jayne Mansfield was an American actress of movie, TV, and theater. She grew to become an enormous Broadway star in 1955, a serious Hollywood participant in 1956, and a high movie star by 1957. She additionally moonlighted as a nightclub entertainer, a singer, and one of many very early Playboy playmates.

Born in 1933, Jayne Mansfield was an American actress of movie, TV, and theater. She grew to become an enormous Broadway star in 1955, a serious Hollywood participant in 1956, and a high movie star by 1957. She additionally moonlighted as a nightclub entertainer, a singer, and one of many very early Playboy playmates. Within the 1950s and early 1960s she was thought-about a foremost Hollywood pin-up image, alongside the likes of Marilyn Monroe. Enjoyable information: she was the Playmate of the Month in 1955, She received a Golden Globe for her position in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter, and she or he received a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame in 1960.

Luigina “Gina” Lollobrigida is an an Italian photojournalist, sculptor, and actress. Through the 1950s and 1960s she was one of many largest worldwide pin-up symbols in filmdom. She started her profession as an actress however as movie roles slowed labored as a photojournalist and sculptor.

Within the 1970s she scored a high-profile interview with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. In 2013, Lollobrigida offered her jewellery assortment for almost $5 million and donated the cash to stem cell remedy analysis. Now retired, she lives in Sicily, Italy, the place she has lived because the late 1940s. Quirky enjoyable truth: Lollobrigida typically refers to herself within the third individual.

Cleo Moore was a blond bombshell who starred in varied Hollywood movies within the 1950s. She shortly grew to become a well known pin-up lady after which signed a contract with Warner Brothers in 1950 earlier than touchdown at Columbia Footage in 1952. The studio tried to make her the subsequent Marilyn Monroe.

She starred in a handful of flicks however after the studio signed Kim Novak, they misplaced deal with her profession. Moore retired from appearing in 1957, however not till after starring within the movie Hit and Run. Moore died in her sleep in 1973, she was 48-years-old. She stays a cult favourite to this very day.

Veronica Lake was an American star of movie, stage, and tv. She was a critically acclaimed star who most notably starred within the movie Sullivan’s Travels. Like many on this record, Lake had fairly a couple of husbands. 4, particularly. She was married at varied occasions to John S. Detlie, Andre DeToth, Joseph A. McCarthy, and Robert Carleton-Munro.

All of her marriages resulted in divorce. Sadly, her profession began to say no within the 1950s due to a bout with alcoholism. She tried to get her profession again on monitor in 1966, however the movie Footsteps within the Snow did not revitalize her profession. Lake died in 1973 after affected by hepatitis and acute kidney failure at 50-years-old.

She started her profession as a toddler mannequin working in commercials earlier than transitioning to movie in her teenage years. Sandra Dee is greatest recognized for her portrayal of ingenues, incomes a Golden Globe Award for her efficiency in Robert Smart’s Till They Sail.

You may bear in mind her being referenced within the musical Grease within the tune “Take a look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee,” which the character Rizzo sings to make enjoyable of Sandy. By the late 1960s her profession was on the decline. She died in 2005 on the age of 62, of problems from kidney illness which was brought on by a lifelong struggle with anorexia.

Jean Harlow was an American actress and one of many best-known and admired pin-up symbols of the 1930s. She was signed by director Howard Hughes and made her first massive look in Hell’s Angels. Her subsequent a number of movies had been unsuccessful and she or he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1932.

She grew to become a number one woman at MGM, showing in a string of main hit movies. Within the 1930s she was Hollywood’s largest main woman. She was given the nicknames “The Blond Bombshell” and “The Platinum Blonde.” She additionally wrote a novel, titled At the moment Is Tonight, which was not revealed till after she handed away.

After we discuss pin-up fashions it’s unattainable to not discuss in regards to the “Queen of Pin-ups,” as she was typically referred. Through the 1950s Web page labored with dozens of photographers. She was named as “Miss January 1955,” making her one in all Playboy journal’s earliest Playmates.

“I believe that she was a exceptional woman, an iconic determine in popular culture who influenced…style in vogue, somebody who had an incredible influence on our society,” Playboy founder Hugh Hefner proclaimed after her dying in 2008. She would later undergo from despair and violent temper swings. She spent a number of years in a state psychiatric hospital and was identified with paranoid schizophrenia.

You possibly can’t have a dialogue about modern-day pin-ups with out speaking about Fernande Barrey. Barrey left her house in Picardy in about 1908. She moved to Paris the place she started making a residing as a prostitute. Painters in Paris had been quickly impressed by Barrey and commenced to color her.

Through the first World Conflict, her picture appeared on the aspect of airplanes and different autos of struggle. Not afraid to indicate ample cleavage and full frontal nudity, her photos had been quickly admired by troopers on either side of the battle. Modern-day pin-ups in lots of respects owe their profession to Fernande Barrey.

Adele Jergens was an American actress and main pin-up throughout World Conflict II, who was additionally famously named “Miss World’s Fairest” on the 1939 New York World’s Honest. She additionally briefly carried out as a Rockette, and was known as the “Quantity One Showgirl in New York Metropolis.” She, then, landed a contract with Columbia Footage in 1944.

She took on roles in All the way down to Earth (1947) and The Darkish Previous (1948), Armored Automotive Theft (1950), Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951), and The Cobweb (1955). In all, she appeared in 47 movies. In keeping with Producer Alex Gordon, “Her picture was all the time that of the robust refrain lady or gangster’s moll or the perfect buddy of the lead. She handed away on November 22, 2002, from pneumonia, simply days earlier than her birthday.

Allison Hayes was an American movie and TV actress, in addition to a well-known pin-up mannequin, even representing DC as Miss District of Columbia. She debuted in Francis Joins the WACS (1954), and continued with minor roles after Signal of the Pagan. She even made visitor appearances within the Perry Mason collection, and she or he took on a minor position in Elvis Presley’s Tickle Me (1965).

Hayes additionally grew to become an sudden activist who protested to the Meals and Drug Administration (FDA), when her extreme signs and ongoing sickness was not taken significantly by medical doctors. After conducting her personal analysis and hiring a toxicologist to check a calcium complement, she was capable of show that it contained extraordinarily excessive ranges of lead. Her activism, and certainly her personal private tragic dying, impressed the implementation of an modification, which additional managed import of dietary dietary supplements. She died one week earlier than her 47th birthday.

Anita Ekberg was a Swedish-Italian actress, mannequin, and intercourse image. She was Sylvia within the Federico Fellini movie La Dolce. She received the Miss Sweden contest in 1950, and even competed in an early model of the Miss Universe pageant.

Though she didn’t turn into Miss Universe, she did obtain numerous perks as one of many finalists for the pageant, together with classes in elocution, dancing, drama, and horseback-riding. She appeared in numerous movies, famously had an affair with Gary Cooper (and others), and even danced barefoot on the over-the-top birthday-party for Peter Howard, inheritor to the Vanderbilt fortune. The entire extreme debacle was closed down by the police, and Howard was reportedly “dragged” out of Italy.

Ann Miller was an American actress, dancer and singer. There have been rumors of a pretend start certificates, however she was nonetheless thought-about a dance prodigy as a toddler, supported she and her mom by dancing in nightclubs after they first moved to LA, after which grew to become a showgirl.

The pretend start certificates reportedly allowed her to get an RKO contract in 1936, when she was 13-years previous. She additionally claimed to have invented pantyhose. The studio claimed she might faucet dance at 500 faucets/per minute, which was truly looped in later. The Smithsonian Establishment displayed her faucet sneakers, “Moe and Joe,” to honor the contribution of Ann Miller in tap-dancing historical past.

Sweet Barr was an American burlesque dancer, stripper, grownup mannequin and actress. She labored as a stripper in Dallas, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, however she additionally grew to become recognized for the violent confrontation she had together with her estranged husband, the place she shot him.

She was traumatized by sexual abuse by a neighbor, when she was younger. She ran away when she was 13-years previous, and shortly started doing methods to outlive till her transient marriage at 14. She grew to become an unique dancer, and in addition appeared in an “underground” grownup movie, Good Alec (1951) when she was 16 (she later mentioned she was drugged and coerced into showing). She was additionally arrested for drug possession fees, convicted and hung out on the Goree State Farm. She later revealed 56 poems that she’d written whereas in jail as A Light Thoughts…. Confused, in 1972.

Carroll Baker was an American movie, theater, and TV actress, in addition to a dramatic pin-up mannequin through the 1950s and 60s. She stared in Westerns, was a glamorous-beauty in The Carpetbaggers (1964), Sylvia (1965), and Harlow (1965). She was described as somebody who not solely had seems to be however might additionally act.

She mentioned, “The press attacked me viciously at each alternative. I got here very near suicide.” Underneath contract dispute with Paramount Footage in 1966 (they fired her when she turned down roles), she moved to Italy, after which returned the US to seem in numerous roles for TV: Homicide She Wrote, L.A. Regulation, and Roswell. She grew to become a author in 1983, with Child Doll: An Autobiography. She mentioned that she’d needed to jot down, and that an autobiography can be simpler to get revealed. She went on to publish To Africa with Love (1986) and A Roman Story (1987).

Cyd Charisse (born Tula Ellice Finklea) was an American actress and dancer. She famously appeared with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire in Singin’ within the Rain (1952), The Band Wagon (1953), Brigadoon, Van Johnson (1954) and Silk Stockings (1957). She additionally obtained the Nationwide Medal of the Arts and Humanities in 2006. Astaire even known as her “lovely dynamite.”

Think about being one of many few ladies who appeared with each Astaire and Kelly. She in contrast the 2 in her autobiography, saying: “To sum it up, I’d say they had been the 2 best dancing personalities who had been ever on display. However it’s like evaluating apples and oranges. They’re each scrumptious.”

Dagmar Lassander is a German actress, who was additionally a dressing up designer for the Berlin Opera early on. She was recognized for The Home by the Cemetery (1981), Blood Brides (1970) and Forbidden Photographs of a Girl Above Suspicion (1970).

She appeared in additional than 31 films, particularly in Italian crime, horror and erotic films, however she additionally appeared in a number of TV collection in addition to different worldwide movies. She grew to become so well-known within the horror-movie style character was named after her, in We Are Nonetheless Right here (2015), a horror movie.

Dorothy Dandridge was an American movie and theater actress, in addition to a singer and dancer. She was a part of The Marvel Kids, which was renamed The Dandridge Sisters. In movies like Tarzan’s Peril, she was acknowledged for moments that had been termed “provocatively revealing,” which additionally earned her different unremarkable roles.

She was the primary African-American actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for Greatest Actress for Carmen Jones, which received her favorable opinions and landed her as the primary black actress to be featured on the duvet of Life. She’s additionally been acknowledged for her work, with a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame. She was the goal of varied scandalous tabloid tales by Confidential, which had been all confirmed to be libelous by the courtroom and the choose’s directed them to cease publishing questionable tales.

Eartha Kitt was an American actress, singer, dancer, and comic. Though her singing has been thought-about provocative, she claimed, “I don’t sing naughty songs. Innocence is without doubt one of the most enjoyable issues on this planet… It’s a little-girl mischief, like going out and throwing stones at home windows.”

Orson Welles known as her the “most enjoyable lady on this planet.” And, Brooks Atkinson acknowledged, “Eartha Kitt not solely seems to be incendiary however she will make a tune burst into flame.” She famously made anti-war feedback at a White Home luncheon, which successfully curtailed her profession for numerous years.

Even together with her profession hiatus, she achieved high, award-winning standing. She famously voiced the villainous Yzma on The Emperor’s New Groove (2000). She was awarded three Emmy Awards (one was posthumously awarded for her look on Marvel Pets).

Gloria Grahame was an actress who appeared on stage, in movies and in addition on TV. She appeared in It’s a Great Life (1946), and she or he appeared on the duvet of Life the identical yr, however MGM then offered her contract to RKO Studios. She then appeared in Sudden Concern (1952), Human Want (1953), The Massive Warmth (1953), and Oklahoma! (1955).

She was overwhelmed “black-and-blue” by one husband. Then, scandal erupted when she admitted that she most popular to sleep with none garments on, and she or he additionally slept together with her stepson (she later secretly married him, and had two youngsters by him). She was additionally in a unstable relationship with comedy author, Cy Howard, who badly scratched her when she was invited to satisfy the Queen (with out him). She later reduce up all Howard’s garments in a single squabble, after which held a gun on him.

She was identified with breast most cancers in 1974, went into remission, recurred in 1980, and refused to hunt remedy. She declined quickly, developed peritonitis, and died in 1981.

Hazel Court docket was an English actress, recognized for her roles in horror movies. She was awarded a British Critics Award for her position in Carnival (1946). She additionally appeared in Vacation Camp (1947), Bond Road (1948), and Ghost Ship (1952).

She revealed her autobiography, Hazel Court docket – Horror Queen, in 2008. She famously mentioned, “Simply in case I ought to pop off to Heaven within the night time, I all the time bear in mind to clean up, punch up the cushions, and straighten up after a cocktail party. I wouldn’t need everybody to come back in and discover it a multitude. It’s very English of me.” She additionally died of a coronary heart assault in 2008.

Ingrid Berman was a Swedish actress, who received three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, 4 Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and the Tony Award for “Greatest Actress.” She represented “the best of American womanhood.”

Director Anatole Litvak mentioned she was one of many “best actresses on this planet.” He additionally mentioned, “She is an easy, easy human being. Via all her troubles she held to the conviction that she had been true to herself and it made her fairly an individual.” She died on her 67th birthday from most cancers, 4 months after she wrapped the ultimate movie of her profession.

Lana Turner was an American movie and TV actress, together with her first movie position in Mervyn LeRoy’s They Gained’t Overlook (1937). She began appearing when she was 16, bleached her hair, and performed ingenue and femme fatale roles.

She married 7 males, and had one daughter, Cheryl Crane (by two-time husband Stephen Crane). Cheryl additionally incited controversy and scandal when she stabbed her mom’s lover, Johnny Stompanato, to dying in an incident that the coroner dominated was self-defense. She was identified with throat most cancers, and handed away in 1995.

Leslie Brooks was an American actress, dancer and mannequin. She was a photographer’s mannequin in 1940, after which began appearing in bit elements. she signed with Columbia in 1941, bleached her hair, and ultimately appeared as femme fatale in 9 Ladies (1944), Cowl Lady (1944) and Blonde Ice (1948).

She appeared on the duvet of Nationwide Police Gazette in 1943. She was additionally known as “the lady with essentially the most lovely determine” by the Worldwide Arithmetic Society in 1946. She retired after her second marriage, after which moved to Hawaii together with her children. She died in 2011.

Mara Corday was an actress, mannequin and showgirl. She was a well-known Playboy Playmate and cult determine. She began as a photographer’s mannequin, after which appeared in Two Tickets to Broadway (1951). She additionally moved from showgirl to actress in Earl Carroll’s Vanities.

She started showing in bit elements, after which moved on to co-starring Sci-Fi roles in The Black Scorpion and The Large Claw. She additionally appeared in Western movies: Man With out a Star and Uncooked Edge. Critic Leonard Maltin indicated that she had “extra appearing capability than she was permitted to exhibit.”

Myrna DellMyrna Dell was an American actress, dancer, author and mannequin, who first took the stage together with her debut in A Night time at Earl Carroll’s after which in Ziegfeld Lady (1941). She later instructed a reporter: “After a time….a woman will get tired of the glamour, the environment, the consuming, the cigarettes to smoke, the wolves.”

After her myriad of roles in films and TV, she later grew to become a author for Hollywood: Then and Now Journal, the place she shared private tales from her time as an actress. She died in 2011. Her daughter scattered her ashes across the Hollywood signal.

Suzy Parker was an American actress and mannequin (her sister was additionally a high mannequin), who infamously appeared on the covers of some 70 magazines (Elle, Look, McCall’s, Paris Match, Vogue, and so forth), and in addition appeared in promoting campaigns for Revlon and Solo Merchandise. The Beatles named a tune after her, and she or he earned $100,000 (she was the primary mannequin to take action).

She famously mentioned, “It’s straightforward to be lovely — simply be born that method.” She first appeared on the duvet of Life journal when she was 15. Vogue proclaimed that she represented the “assured, post-war American lady.” She handed away in 2003, following a long-and-painful wrestle with ulcers and at last kidney failure.

Yvonne De Carlo was an internationally recognized Canadian-American actress, singer and dancer. Walter Wanger known as her “essentially the most lovely lady on this planet.” She was additionally voted “Queen of Technicolor” three years in a row.

Director Cecil B DeMille as soon as mentioned of De Carlo, “I sensed in her a depth, an emotional energy, a womanly power…” She was acknowledged with two stars for her contributions to films and TV on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame. She had a stroke in 1998, after which handed away from coronary heart failure in 2007.

Whereas so lots of the pin-up women additionally discovered fame and fortune with singing, dancing and appearing careers, the pin-up artistry additionally discovered its method into calendars, and even on the aspect of fighter jets and bombers. These seductive and scantily clad pin-up women had been seen as “morale boosters” for the troopers abroad.

In all the assorted types and codecs, pin-up women shortly permeated widespread tradition. When you could not see pin-up women on fighter jets anymore, you may nonetheless discover them of their varied creative types. With ever-more-provocative images, the pin-up lady in images has grown up loads too! What are your ideas on the pin-up lady?

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Noticias de series de la semana: 'Fleabag', renovada por fin

Renovaciones de series

Netflix ha renovado Friends from College por una segunda temporada

Netflix ha renovado Stranger Things por una tercera temporada

Channel 4 ha renovado Friday Night Dinner por una quinta temporada

Epix ha renovado Get Shorty por una segunda temporada

Amazon ha renovado Transparent por una quinta temporada

HBO ha renovado Room 104 por una segunda temporada

Sky1 ha renovado Stan Lee's Lucky Man por una tercera temporada

BBC Three ha renovado Fleabag por una segunda temporada

Cancelaciones de series

E4 ha cancelado Chewing Gum tras su segunda temporada

Incorporaciones y fichajes de series

Orlando Bloom (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lord of the Rings) protagonizará Carnival Row. Será un inspector que lo arriesga todo para resolver el asesinato de un hada showgirl.

Ben Whishaw (London Spy, Suffragette) será Norman Scott, el examante de Jeremy Thorpe (Hugh Grant), en A Very English Scandal.

Ivana Milicevic (Banshee, Gotham) será recurrente en la quinta temporada de The 100 como Charmaine Diyoza, una de los misteriosos criminales.

Reid Scott (Veep, The Big C) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de Great News como Jeremy, reportero del The New York Times y nuevo interés amoroso de Katie (Briga Heelan).

Stephen Dorff (Deuces Wild, Blade) será el padre de Star Davis (Jude Demorest) en la segunda temporada de Star.

Diane Guerrero (Orange Is the New Black, Jane the Virgin) se une como regular a la segunda temporada de Superior Donuts. Será Sofia, una joven que aparca su food truck frente a la tienda de donuts.

Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica, Longmire) será recurrente en la cuarta temporada de The Flash como la villana Amunet Black AKA Blacksmith.

Rachelle Lefevre (Under the Dome, Twilight) se une como regular a Mary Kills People. Será Olivia Bloom, una mujer del pasado de Mary (Caroline Dhavernas) que reaparece con una petición. Ian Lake (Bitten) también se une como regular interpretando a Travis, el marido de Olivia.

Melina Kanakaredes (CSI: NY, Providence) se une como regular a The Resident. Será la doctora Lane Hunter, la mejor oncóloga del estado de Georgia.

Timothy Hutton (American Crime, Leverage) completa la familia Crane en The Haunting of Hill House. Carla Gugino podría interpretar a su esposa, mientras que Kate Siegel, Elizabeth Reaser y Michiel Huisman serían sus hijos. Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Emerald City, Man in an Orange Shirt) también participa.

Los protagonistas de la cuarta temporada de Black Mirror son:

Rosemarie Dewitt (The Last Tycoon, United States of Tara), Brenna Harding (A Place to Call Home, Puberty Blues) y Owen Teague (Bloodline) en el episodio 'Arkangel', dirigido por Jodie Foster (Orange Is the New Black, Money Monster).

Douglas Hodge (Penny Dreadful, The Night Manager), Letitia Wright (Humans, Cucumber) y Babs Olusanmokun (The Defenders, Roots) en el episodio 'Black Museum'.

Andrea Riseborough (Bloodline, National Treasure), Andrew Gower (Outlander) y Kiran Sonia Sawar (Legends, Murdered by My Father) en el episodio 'Crocodile'.

Georgina Campbell (Broadchurch, Flowers), Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders) y George Blagden (Versailles, Vikings) en el episodio 'Hang the DJ'.

Maxine Peake (Silk, Three Girls), Jake Davies (The Missing, Cyberbully) y Clint Dyer (Mine, Unknown) en el episodio 'Metalhead'.

Jesse Plemmons (Fargo, Breaking Bad), Cristin Milioti (How I Met Your Mother, A to Z), Michaela Coel (Chewing Gum, The Aliens) y Jimmi Simpson (Westworld, House of Cards) en el episodio 'USS Callister'.

Mouna Traoré (Murdoch Mysteries) y Ellen Wong (GLOW) se unen a Condor. Serán Iris Lorimer, la esposa de un agente de la CIA, y Sarah Tan, una de las mejores amigas de Joe (Max Irons).

Marque Richardson (Reggie Green) ha sido ascendido a regular para la segunda temporada de Dear White People.

Brittany S. Hall (Amber) ha sido ascendido a regular para la cuarta temporada de Ballers.

Michael Irby (Taken, True Detective), Jay Hayden (The Catch) y Alona Tal (Hand of God, Supernatural) se unen como recurrentes a SEAL Team.

Anna Diop (24: Legacy) y Teagan Croft serán Starfire y Raven, personajes regulares, en Titans.

Shohreh Aghdashloo (The Expanse, House of Sand and Fog) se une como recurrente a The Punisher. Será Farah Madani, la madre de la agente de Homeland Security Dinah Madani (Amber Rose Revah).

Ramon Rodriguez (The Defenders, Iron Fist) será recurrente en la cuarta temporada de The Affair como Ben, un marine veterano que ahora trabaja para la Administración sanitaria de veteranos.

Jocelyn Hudon (The Strain) sustituye a Chloe East en el papel de Willow Green en la segunda temporada de Ice. Será personaje regular. Ashley Thomas (24: Legacy, Beowulf), Laura Vandervoort (Bitten, Supergirl), Amy Madigan (Gone Baby Gone) y D.B. Sweeney (Two and a Half Men) se unen como recurrentes. Thomas y Madigan interpretarán al hijo de Cam (Ray Winstone) y a la madre de Ava (Audrey Marie Anderson).

Richard Flood (Red Rock, Crossing Lines) será recurrente en la octava temporada de Shameless como Ford, un graduado en arquitectura por Yale, fotógrafo de guerra y exseminarista.

Merit Leighton (Sofia the First) será recurrente en Alexa & Katie como Hannah, amiga de las protagonistas.

Sonya Cassidy (Humans, Vera), David Pasquesi (Veep, Boss), Eric Allan Kramer (Good Luck Charlie), Brent Jennings y Linda Emond protagonizarán Lodge 49 junto a Wyatt Russell.

Sonoya Mizuno (Ex Machina) será regular en Maniac como la doctora Fujita. Julia Garner (Ozark, The Americans) será recurrente.

Pósters de series

          Nuevas series

Channel 4 ha encargado seis episodios de Jerusalem, drama de época creado y escrito por Bash Doran (Masters of Sex, Boardwalk Empire). En 1945, tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, una ambiciosa veinteañera se une al Servicio Civil y acepta espiar a su propio gobierno para los americanos.

BBC One encarga tres episodios de The Barking Murders, la historia real de Stephen Port, conocido como el asesino del Grindr por violar y matar a cuatro hombres entre 2014 y 2015, desde el punto de vista de las familias de las víctimas. Escrito por Jeff Pope (Philomena, The Widower).

BBC One encarga cuatro episodios de The Cry, adaptación de la novela de Helen FitzGerald sobre el colapso de un matrimonio tras la desaparición de su bebé en un pueblo costero de Australia. Escrito por Jacquelin Perske (Will, Little Fish).

BBC One encarga cuatro episodios de The Victim, thriller legal sobre una mujer acusada de desvelar en Internet la nueva identidad y el paradero del hombre que asesinó a su hijo adolescente hace veinte años y conspirar para matarlo. Escrita por Rob Williams.

BBC Three encarga cuatro episodios de Man Like Mobeen, comedia creada, escrita y protagonizada por Guz Khan (Zapped) sobre un hombre peludo de veintiocho años, a quien abandonaron sus padres, que solo quiere seguir su fe, llevar una buena vida y encargarse de mantener a su hermana pequeña en Birmingham con el apoyo de sus dos mejores amigos, que le acercan cada día más a una crisis nerviosa.

Sky1 ha encargado A Discovery of Witches, basada en la novela de Deborah Harkness, sobre el floreciente romance entre una historiadora y un genetista - que resultan ser también una bruja que reniega de su linaje y un vampiro - mientras intentan entender los secretos de un antiguo manuscrito de la Biblioteca Bodleiana de Oxford y la paz entre demonios y humanos pende de un hilo. Protagonizan Teresa Palmer (Warm Bodies, Hacksaw Ridge) y Matthew Goode (The Imitation Game, The Good Wife).

Sky1 ha encargado Bulletproof, llena de comedia, drama y acción, sobre dos agentes de policía y amigos unidos por el mismo código moral a pesar de tener vidas completamente distintas - son el hijo del primer comisario negro, siempre esperando cumplir lo que se esperaba de él, y un joven que ha crecido de familia de acogida en familia de acogida. Protagonizan Ashley Walters (Top Boy, Cuffs) y Noel Clarke (Doctor Who, The Level). Creada por ellos mismos juntos a Nick Love.

Channel 4 encarga seis episodios de Dead Pixels, comedia parte acción real y parte animación por ordenador que sigue a Meg, Nicky y Usman y su obsesión por el juego de rol Kingdom Scrolls. Escrita por Jon Brown.

Channel 4 encarga seis episodios de Hang Ups, la adaptación británica de Web Therapy, sobre un terapeuta que decide abandonar el método habitual y desarrollar sesiones cortas a través de la webcam. Protagonizada y creada por Stephen Mangan (Episodes, Houdini and Doyle).

Pop ha adquirido Let's Get Physical (8 episodios), comedia de Connor Pritchard (Workaholics) y Dan Newmark (Gigi Does It) sobre Joe (Matt Jones, Breaking Bad), el vago cantante de una cover band que hereda el gimnasio de su padre, una leyenda del fitness, tras su inesperado fallecimiento y debe competir contra su archienemigo Barry (Chris Diamantopoulos, Silicon Valley) en el Campeonato Nacional de Aerobic para conseguir el dinero y las propiedades. AnnaLynne McCord (90210) interpreta a Claudia, exnovia de Joe y mujer de Barry.

Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) desarrolla junto a Julian Simpson (Doctor Who) la serie Jumper, la adaptación de la película sobre un adolescente que puede teletransportarse. Bell podría repetir el papel de la película.

Hulu ha encargado diez episodios de la comedia All Night, creada por Jason Ubaldi y dirigida por Brian Dannelly (Girlfiiend's Guide to Divorce). Se centra en una fiesta de graduación en la que los estudiantes harán lo que sea necesario para cumplir sus últimos sueños de instituto. Protagonizan Chris Avila, Brec Bassinger, Chanel Celaya, Ty Doran (American Crime), Teala Dunn, Allie Grant, Caleb Ray, Eva Gutowski, Tetona Jackson, Gus Kamp, Tom Maden, Jenn McAllister, Austin North, Tequan Richmond, Chester Rushing, Jake Short, Chance Sutton, Noureen DeWulf (Anger Management), Kate Flannery y Dawan Owens.

Fechas de series

La segunda temporada de Doctor Foster se estrena en BBC One el 5 de septiembre

La séptima temporada de Cold Feet llega a ITV el 8 de septiembre

La segunda temporada de Channel Zero, titulada No-End House, llega a Syfy el 20 de septiembre

La cuarta temporada de Z Nation se estrena en Syfy el 29 de septiembre

La tercera temporada de Club de Cuervos se estrena en Netflix el 29 de septiembre

La segunda temporada de Van Helsing se estrena en Syfy el 5 de octubre

Ghost Wars llega a Syfy el 5 de octubre

Superstition llega a Syfy el 6 de octubre

La segunda temporada de The Shannara Chronicles se estrena en Spike el 11 de octubre

Godless llega a Netflix el 22 de noviembre

Happy! llega a Syfy el 29 de noviembre

Otras imágenes

Diana Rigg en Victoria

Tráilers de series

American Horror Story: Cult

Black Mirror - Temporada 4

Channel Zero: No-End House

Dirk Gently - Temporada 2

The Alienist

BoJack Horseman - Temporada 4

The Shannara Chronicles - Temporada 2

Strike - The Cuckoo's Calling

The Punisher

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Argo City Reviews: Supergirl (1994 Mini-Series) #2

In this story, titled “Demands,” Supergirl spends time in Singapore with the staff of Lexcorp as…

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Super Titles Round-Up (March 1994)

This month: Superboy gets knocked around, Supergirl gets disrespected, and Steel fights a dentist. Also, the JLA visits Metropolis! For two pages.

Superboy #2 (March 1994)

Superboy's a big punching bag in this issue. First, some Hawaiian mobsters shoot at him with sci-fi weapons for busting their smuggling operation and making fun of them.

Then, he's asked to protect a priceless spear supposedly belonging to a Hawaiian god called Lono, but a superpowered stripper called Knockout shows up and steals it, even though she thinks "old gods are really overrated." She also punches him a whole lot, and kisses him once... which is pretty creepy considering she's hundreds of years old (spoilers) and he's 16 (or like three months old if you wanna get technical).

Once Knockout has gotten her rocks off, she just gives the spear back to Superboy and goes away -- only for some crazy old guy in futuristic cowboy gear to materialize in front of him, sucker punch him, and re-steal the spear.

Despite everything, Superboy says he's liking Hawaii and will stick around for a while, just because his reporter crush Tana Moon lives here now (the super-statutory rapist probably helps, too).

Supergirl #2 (March 1994)

Supergirl FINALLY begins suspecting that her beloved Lex Luthor Jr. might not be the most honest guy ever after meeting a rich lady called Elizabeth Perske, who happens to be one of Lex Sr.'s ex-wives (the former Mrs. Luthors were first mentioned 8 years ago in Man of Steel #4, but it took this long for one to show up). Thanks to Perske's warnings, Supergirl decides to snoop on the LexCorp employees performing tests on her and finds out that they all think she's a pushover and a "bimbo" for doing whatever Lex says without questioning him.

Eventually, she decides to use her invisibility powers to spy on the scientist in charge of her tests and overhears him talking to poor Dr. Happersen (who's in pretty poor shape after being lasered by Bizarro in Superman #87) about something called "Operation Protomatter."

The issue ends with Supergirl confronting the scientist guy and violently demanding to know the truth behind these “tests” LexCorp has been running on her, right NOW. Meaning next issue.

Steel #2 (March 1994)

Steel's nephew Jemahl gets in trouble with his gang because they think he snitched on them to Steel, plus they're still upset about having their asses kicked by his uncle John Henry (you know, the one who looks just like Steel). Steel has to save the little punk from a robot-armed gangster who calls himself "Amalgam" -- not because he's two universes merged together, but because he's also a dentist. Seriously. Is this the only dentist supervillain?

Anyway, Amalgam mentions he's working for Steel's old bosses at Amertek during the fight, so John decides to bust their asses NOW. Meaning next issue.

Justice League America #86 (March 1994)

Superman has a brief cameo in this issue just to re-confirm to the League that he isn't re-joining the team now that he's back to life (not until they considerably upgrade the roster and creative team, anyway). But at least they get to hear him say "thanks" for helping out against Doomsday, so the trip to Metropolis wasn't totally wasted.

And... I was gonna do a blurb on the Superman: Under a Yellow Sun graphic novel that also came out on March ‘94, but after re-reading it I think it deserves its own post, so that’s it for this round up! Bye.