this is a list of all comics Mae Kent (pre-fusion) and Kon-El have a significant interaction in and a guide to their storyline!
- superman: the man of steel #23: mae decides to go looking for him under lex’s encouragement.
- adventures of superman #502: mae interrupts some of kon’s showboating. he stares at her chest. lex pushes her to invite kon over for dinner. kon says he never plans ahead and agrees to go. lex, kon, and mae have dinner later in the issue. kon agrees to join lexcorp easily before having to leave to meet tana. they agree to meet again the next day. rex & roxy leech then coerce kon into signing an exclusive contract with them, against what he’d previously informally agreed to with Lex and Mae.
- action comics #689: kon and mae work to manage a bridge disaster. kon vows revenge against the person who caused it. mae points out that they both have reason to hate the guy, and that with lex’s resources, tracking him down will be easy. that kon’s joining the team luthor family, and they’ll work together. kon then reveals his signing of the exclusive contract. ma and pa disapprove of all of this.
- action comics #691: lex attacks kon, shouting and demanding to know where mae has gone.
- superman #82: mae asks if the world can handle two supermen. kon says he’s not superman for the first time in response.
- adventures of superman #505: mae and kon rush steel & eradicator to safety. mae kisses steel on the mouth of his metal suit. kon says “hey— you never kissed me like that!” she says “you’d take it the wrong way.”
- action #700: mae says she doesn’t have any brothers. kon asks if she’s still dating lex, and when she says no, he invites her to a beach in maui. she says they’re too busy and they go back to dealing with the main plot.
trial of superman: this arc contains a lot of general superfamily content. i’ve listed most of the ones they both appear in, but i’ll only be elaborating on ones where they have specific interesting interactions.
- adventures of superman #529: marcus aelius invites mae, kon, and steel to help him save superman. mae and kon sit next to each other on the space ship
- action comics #716: kon teaches mae how to play magic the gathering.. with playing cards?
- superman: the man of steel #51: mae and kon are standing next to each other. then later while fighting, kon and mae begin to argue about whether or not alpha centurion is the cyborg superman in disguise.
- superman #107: mae and kon sit next to each other on some kind of rock-ship that steel created. they continue to argue about whether or not marcus aelius is a bad guy. they all climb into a tiny space ship they come across together. they then crash said ship and are confronted with the cyborg superman. the cyborg superman beats them up.
- superman: the man of steel #52: he leans in and makes a silly comment to mae after clark saves the day.
- superman #108: mae and kon watch together as clark seems to be launched to his certain death.
- adventures of superman #531: clark is shockingly not dead. they go home!
- superboy #28: kon implies he’d recognise mae’s chest anywhere. mae says she heard about the beached whales kon is helping from his friends she’s spoken to recently. mae brings up that she’s heard about kon and defending knockout. she says anyone wearing the S-Shield shouldn’t be evading the police. he brings up superman’s recent trial- she points out he isn’t clark and doesn’t have as long as history of doing good. knockout rushes in and attacks her. they start fighting. kon points out mae shouldn’t judge him for associating with knockout, because she dated lex luthor. she says that experience is how she knows kon is doing wrong. after some more arguing, she uses her telekinesis to rip the logos off of his suit and jacket. she says basically that if he’s not going to listen to her or the law, he shouldn’t carry superman’s symbol. she then flies off.
shortly after this, she would fuse with linda danvers in supergirl (1996) and would never lead a properly independent life again. her and kon never really got along after this.
here is my recommended mae & kon comics in fun graphic form so you can share them more easily!:
Superhero space missions always end up getting waylaid because of some unrelated nonsense. It's like space is the size of a medium parking lot with how populated it is.
