| Lara | |
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Other Names |
Lora |
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First Appearance |
Superman Newspaper Strip (January 16th, 1939) |
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Original Publisher |
National Comics Publications |
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Created by |
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster |
Origin[]
Lara and her husband place their infant son into the rocketship.
Lara was a young scientist born on Krypton. During her career, she interned for a man named Jor-El. At first sight Jor-El loved her, but it took time for Lara to feel the same way towards him. Eventually they fell in love, and later had a son.
The rocket hurtles through space as Krypton explodes.
Sadly a cataclysm began to crack their home planet apart, Jor-El and Lara decided to place their son into a model of ship that was just about to tested by Jor-El. They sent it into space to save their infant son. As the ship flew out of the range of the planet's annihilation, Jor-El and Lara sadly perished in the earthquakes spawned from the disaster.
Powers & Abilities[]
She also held a natural Kryptonian ability to jump/leap hundreds of yards at once which made her versatile in traveling.
Public Domain Appearances[]
Public Domain Comic Strip Appearances[]
- Superman (Newspaper Strip): "The Superman Is Born" to "Speeding Towards Earth"
Public Domain Literary Appearances[]
- The Adventures of Superman (1942)
Public Domain Radio Appearances[]
- The Adventures Of Superman (Radio Show): The Baby From Krypton
Notes[]
- While her son remains in copyright until 2034; Lara, her husband, as well as the planet Krypton and its inhabitants are in the public domain due to the publisher's failing to properly display a copyright notice for the first comic strips they first appeared in. Their first appearances in comic books came much later.
- The character was originally named "Lora" within the comic strip, but was later renamed to "Lara" in the 1942 book "The Adventures of Superman" which reimagined her character.
- Neither DC nor Warner owns or has ever owned registered trademarks over either the name or likeness of this character.