#sylvia dewitt

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Happy Mother's Day!

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November 1981. Embiggenable family tree for the pre-Crisis Superman, from SUPERMAN: THE KRYPTON CHRONICLES #3. Here's a breakdown:

Superman's paternal grandparents were Jor-El I and Nimda An-Dor.

Jor-El I had a sister, Kalya Var-El, who married Nim-Zee, a member of the Kandorian Science Council, and a brother, Zim-El, who married Byma Ruth-Ar.

Nim-Zee and Kalya Var-El had two sons: Gem-Zee, whose daughter Thara Gem-Zee later married Ak-Var (Jimmy Olsen's successor as Flamebird), and Van-Zee, who later married the Earthwoman Sylvia DeWitt (and for a while succeeded Superman as Nightwing, hero of Kandor). Van-Zee and Sylvia have two kids, twins Lyle-Zee and Lili Van-Zee.

Zim-El and Byma Ruth-Ar's son Kru-El (Jor-El's cousin) was sent to the Phantom Zone for creating forbidden weapons.

Jor-El I and Nimda An-Dor had three sons: Jor-El II, his twin brother Nim-El, and their younger brother Zor-El.

Nim-El married Dondra Klu-Ta; their son Don-El later became the police chief of Kandor.

Jor-El II married Lara Lor-Van; their son, Kal-El, became Superman.

Kal-El's maternal grandparents (Lara's parents) were Lor-Van and Lara Rok-Var.

Zor-El married Alura In-Ze in Argo City after the destruction of Krypton. Their daughter, Kara Zor-El, born some years later, became Supergirl.

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All-Star Superman

Volume: 1 #10

Neverending

Writers: Grant Morrison

Pencils: Frank Quitely

Inks: Jamie Grant

Covers: Frank Quitely, Jamie Grant

Featuring: Superman, Leo Quintum, Lois Lane, Sylvia DeWitt, Lex Luthor, Mechano-Man 

DC All-Star

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February 1960. As the cover proclaims, this story (by Edmond Hamilton and Kurt Schaffenberger, under this Curt Swan/Stan Kaye cover) is not a hoax or a dream. However, it is a trick: The couple pictured are not Superman and Lois Lane, but Superman's cousin Van-Zee, a resident of the Bottle City of Kandor, and Sylvia DeWitt, a WASP heiress who looks just like Lois Lane. Trickery not withstanding, this is an interesting story in that, so far as I know, Sylvia is the only canonical example in the Superman comics (discounting a couple of Imaginary Stories) of a Kryptonian-by-choice: She marries a Kryptonian survivor; he comes up with a serum that gives her Kryptonian powers under a yellow sun; and she leaves her life on Earth to live with Van-Zee and their kids in the Kryptonian culture of Kandor — wearing Kryptonian clothes, eating Kryptonian food, and presumably speaking Kryptonese. Van-Zee and Sylvia remained occasional supporting characters in the Superman books until the Crisis on Infinite Earths. After Kandor was enlarged on the distant planet Rokyn in 1979, their family moved there with the other Kandorians; they last appeared in SUPERMAN #414 (December 1985).

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