Steve Lombard

Steve Lombard is a male comic character who features in DC Comics.

Biography

Pre-Crisis

Steve Lombard

Pete Ross used his resources to track down one of Lex Luthor's labs, and used a time travel and mind-transfer device to bring Superboy into the present and switch minds with him. He attacked Superman and bound him in kryptonite chains, and assembled Perry White, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Steve Lombard to act as witnesses for Superman s trial, and told the story of how Superman failed to save his son from the Nyrvnian aliens. Superman s friends realized he wasn't guilty of anything except failing, and voted that Pete/Superboy set him free. Pete disregarded them, and threatened to kill them after disposing of Superman. He used a bazooka to fire a kryptonite shell at Superman, but missed. He went into space to collect more kryptonite, but Superboy, in Pete s body, had escaped his captivity and returned to the Kent farm to find a way to help his future self. He found Krypto s dog whistle, and used it to summon help for his future self. Superman defeated Pete and put his mind back in his own body. Superboy was excited to meet his future self, but he was far more excited to return to his own time. Superman owed to restore Pete Ross sanity. (DC Comics Presents v1 #14)

The star-spanning world conqueror Mongol wanted control of the legendary Warworld, a planet-sized doomsday weapon, but needed a crystal key in a New Mars crypt to unlock it. After shrinking Superman s friends Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Steve Lombard, and imprisoning them in a cube he contacted Superman, and ordered him to retrieve the key, or his friends lives would be forfeit. Superman knew Mongul was up to no good, but decided to play along until he could rescue his friends. He traveled to New Mars, and Martian Manhunter told him the key was under his protection. He tried to convince Superman that he didn't know what Mongul was capable of , but Superman assured him he knew what he was doing. Manhunter refused to stand down, they battled, and Superman defeated the hero and took the key from its hidden crypt. Mongul arrived on New Mars, and when Superman refused him the key he prepared to kill Superman s friends, but they were saved by Manhunter. Mongul snatched the key and flew away in his spacecraft. Manhunter chided Superman for his overconfidence and hubris. Superman, feeling responsible, vowed to track him down after he returned his friends to Earth. (DC Comics Presents v1 #27)

Post-Crisis

Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.

Post-Flashpoint

Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.

Notes

• Steve Lombard was created by Cary Bates and Curt Swan where he made his first appearance in Superman v1 #264 (June, 1973).
• In Back Issue! (91): 16–18 (2016), writer Martin Pasko said on the character: ""... Lombard is one of the few examples of a character that all of us Superman scripters at that time wrote in more or less the same way - as opposed to, say, the way Lana Lang seemed to be a totally different character when she'd show up in Action on occasion. I think that's because Lombard was one of the most sharply drawn and purposefully designed (though not particularly complex) characters I've ever handled - the most clearly communicated idea I've ever heard from an editor and the writer who co-created it: the jock doofus unwittingly trying to bust Superman's cajónes. The audience waits for it, knowing that a hotfoot with a match won't trump a hotfoot from heat vision, or whatever. And I gather the other Superman writers thought so, too. That's why Lombard became, for me, at least, one of the best examples of what, in sitcoms, we call the 'run-through character'. That's certainly what Ted Baxter was on TV: the character you knew you could 'run through' a scene and get laughs just from his showing up. ... The audience starts laughing when they show up because they're laughing at what they're imagining is gonna happen. They're 'waiting for it'"."

In other media

Television

• In Young Justice, Steve Lombard appeared in the setting of the animated television series in the episode "Evolution" where he was voiced by actor David Kaye.
• In My Adventures with Superman, Steve Lombard appeared in the setting of the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Vincent Tong.

Films

• In All-Star Superman, Steve Lombard appeared in the setting of the animated film where he was voiced by actor Kevin Michael Richardson.
• In Superman: Unbound, Steve Lombard appeared in the setting of the animated film where he was voiced by actor Diedrich Bader.
• In Man of Steel, Steve Lombard appeared in the setting of the live-action film set in the DC Extended Universe where he was portrayed by actor Michael Kelly.

Appearances

• Superman v1: (1973)

External Links

• DC Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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