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On the above page referring to Footnote 2 and "The Three Ages of Superboy," but more specifically to the third of the three ages, "The Wild West Of Jesse James" the following is found:
"Superboy did reveal his alter-ego to Lana's great-grandmother, Laura Langdon, during a time-trip to 1876. He little guessed that she would record this into a diary which her descendant, Lana, would one day find."
The "The Wild West Of Jesse James" segment of the three part Superboy story can be found in full by clicking:
THE WILD WEST OF JESSE JAMES
The complete "The Girl In Superboy's Life" comic book story, where Lana Lang and Superboy meet for the first time, comes up by clicking:
THE GIRL IN SUPERBOY'S LIFE
Lana Lang, Superboy's friend from childhood into adolescence and then into adult life was the first person to suspect Clark Kent and Superboy was one and the same person. Her first appearance was in the September-October 1950 issue of SUPERBOY NO.10 in "The Girl in Superboy's Life." Afterwards in SUPERMAN 78/3 from September-October 1952, as an adult woman, she moves to Metropolis and works at the Daily Planet with Clark Kent, and even for a few days, lives in Lois Lane's apartment. Lana Lang as adult, is Lois Lane's chief rival for Superman's love in several adventures. In 1965 she becomes a TV reporter (SUPERMAN 177/2). In the post-Crisis version by John Byrne, Lana Lang is Clark Kent's close friend, being the first person who knows his secret identity as Superman.(see)
As can be determined from the above history of Lana Lang, you can see, as a comic book character in Superman and Superboy comics, she did not show up for the first time until Superboy No. 10 with a cover date of September-October 1950, some two years AFTER the event with the cab-forwards and the flight out of the dirt airstrip south of Reno as mentioned in both June Lang and Riding the Cab Forewards linked below. As written in both it seems as though I put the two Langs, June and Lana, together at that moment at that same time.
JUNE LANG, ACTRESS--------------------RIDING THE CAB FORWARDS
Actually, it was only after I became aware of Lana Lang that I was able to recall backwards that the woman was June Lang. The fact the woman may have been the movie actress June Lang on the plane was brought up to my grandmother by my uncle early on, he knowing that my mother and June Lang had danced together as children professionally. Between my grandmother, uncle and I, the whole June Lang thing was kept alive on-and-off long enough for me to make the connection with the red haired Lana Lang on my own sometime in the 1950s, the 12 year old boy or so that I was, and from there I extrapolated it clear up to the point I felt I knew about the connection my whole life.
By clicking the first graphic below, the Superboy cover graphic, the complete, unabridged "The Girl In Superboy's Life" comic book story, where Lana Lang and Superboy meet for the first time, comes up. It's totally free, no sign ups or ads.
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SUPERBOY TRAVELS BACK IN TIME, ENDING IN
THE REAL LIFE ANALOGIES OF TIME AND PLACE
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RED HAIRED WOMEN IN A YOUNG BOY'S LIFE
I was never much of what you would call a Superman fan. Comic book wise, when it came to super heroes, I always had a tendency to lean more toward the more vulnerable human mortal types such as Captain Midnight, and a little off center for a super hero, the Spirit. I also, it must be said at the same time, leaving a large amount of latitude or leeway for the "World's Mightiest Mortal," Captain Marvel and not so much leeway with the fully mortal Batman.
Because of not particularly being a Superman fan had a tendency to kind of leave Lana Lang out of the spotlight for me as well. Even though it didn't matter much because she was so low profile, she did in fact as she was presented, have red hair. So what? Well there just happen to be two red haired female comic book characters that were very high up on the spectrum for me. Firehair and Jane Martin, War Nurse. Firehair shows up in a lot of what I write, me seeming to have devoted a lot of coverage and mentions of her on a number of my pages and throughout my internet online works.
In how the story line of Firehair was written, she was found in the wilderness of the wild west in dire straights and saved by members of the Native American Dakota tribe. In several places, in conjunction with Firehair I write that my mother, who died while I was a very young boy, and her sister, my Aunt, had beautiful long red hair. In that they were so close together age-wise and looked so much alike almost everybody mistook them for twins. Although I do not remember much about my mother I remember my aunt very well, and because of their look alikeness I always felt I had a good idea of what my mother looked like. In conjunction with Firehair, as a young boy I always held a certain affinity towards her character because I liked to believe that my mother, with her red hair and all, would have been like her, maybe even, since I never went to her funeral, found by Indians and saved.
A number of readers of my works, some tongue-in-cheek some obviously more serious in their tone, some leaning towards a certain creepiness even, have a tendency to read more into what I have written about my mother and Firehair than any intention included or not included in my meaning therein. Although I do not particularly recall thinking about it while writing what I have regarding Firehair, nor do I recall thinking of it previously, now that it has been brought to my attention I do get a kick out of the tongue-in-cheek side, not so much so the other side. Their attention is directed toward a time when Firehair was a priority in my life. Since there IS a sort of a sensuous Sheena, Queen of the Jungle look about her, as the virile young boy I was growing up, they ask, was my application of interest in Firehair superimposed over my own mother more Oedipus in nature than otherwise? No. It was Ginger Maguire, nicknamed Sky Girl, I appreciated so much more than Sheena anyway, published right along with Sheena in the same books. Besides, like Firehair and Jane Martin, Sky Girl was a redhead AND she could fly P-40's to boot.(see)
Jane Martin and Sky Girl just never received the amount of "screen time" as Firehair did because, unlike Firehair, I didn't relate either to my mother, which in turn brought in all the Oedipus Complex comments, followed then by a superfluous need to reply. Nor, like I have written rather extensively in Firehair, was I reading anything about either at at the time the woman of the couple I was fostered to threw a fit causing me to run away from home. None of those things. Jane Martin stories were published in the comic book Wings monthly and Sky Girl in Sheena. I simply read them and moved along --- except for one occasion in my works where Jane Martin got caught up in an adventure that involved the Flying Tigers. That story I made a full site on:
JANE MARTIN, WAR NURSE MEETS THE FLYING TIGERS
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FIREHAIR: THE QUEEN OF THE SAGEBRUSH FRONTIER
THE RED HAIRED GIANTS
Of course there's always the red haired giants as made reference to in the following quote:
"(My dad) was always reading pulp western and science fiction magazines and in the process came across a story that said located way out in the middle of the desert wasteland near Lovelock, Nevada, there existed an ancient cave that had at onetime within it's cavern depths the skeletal remains of giant humans, red haired humans of a huge size, eight or ten foot tall or more. He said the women would have been twice as tall as my mother at 4 foot 11 inches who also had red hair. My buddy and I, the near to graduating and deeply educated super-bright intellectual powerhouses that we were, after hearing the story, like someone driven to see the world's largest ball of yarn, decided we couldn't live quietly the rest of our lives if we didn't go see the caves and its contents ourselves. So, with no real clue as to what we were doing, off we went, using the camper for comfort and the jeep to traverse the wasteland to find red haired skeletons twice the height of my red haired mother."
THE JEEP, NEVADA, AND THE RED HAIRED GIANTS
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RIDING THE CAB FORWARDS
ANALOGIES IN TIME AND PLACE
SO, WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?
IT FLOWS FROM MY SUPER HEAVILY INJECTED ACADEMIC BACKGROUND BRIMMING
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THEIR HISTORY
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THE WANDERLING
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