Daily Planet

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The Daily Planet in Superman: Secret Origin v1 #3.

The Daily Planet is a business that features in DC Comics.

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History

Pre-Crisis

The Daily Planet was a newspaper publisher that operated in the city of Metropolis.

A corrupt petty politician named Alex Evell used his finances to purchase the Morning Pictorial with him using its publications to smear political and other opponents. In response, Clark Kent wrote a scathing article about Evell in the Daily Planet's article. This resulted in an angry Evell visiting the Daily Planet and offering to buy the newspaper with publisher Burt Mason refusing. Alex Evell vowed to make the Planet pay with him hiring thugs to target Daily Planet attempts at distributing their publications. Superman intervened where he helped in the arrest of Alex Evell after he kidnapped Lois Lane leading to him being taken in by the police. (Superman v1 #5)

Post-Crisis

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

The supervillain NRG-X was secretly hired by Anderson Gaines to assassinate the reporter Clark Kent at the Daily Planet. This saw the villain strike at the building only for Superman to arrive at the scene who fought against NRG-X who was later forced to flee the scene but not before heavily damaging the structure. (Superman/Batman v1 #69)

Post-Flashpoint

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

Morgan Edge came to purchase the Daily Planet and merged it with his Galaxy Broadcasting Systems. (Superman v3 #1)

Afterwards, the Crime Syndicate of America came to invade Prime Earth with the Justice League going missing as a result. Ultraman came to the Daily Planet where he attacked Jimmy Olsen where he wanted to see the differences between him and his own version of Olsen. This caused Lois Lane to attack him when he started to hurt Jimmy but he effortlessly pushed her aside. It was then that Black Adam arrived on the scene where he attacked Ultraman and attmepted to kill the villain from another reality. However, the Earth-3 native was able to handle his attack and knocked him outside further into Metropolis thus causing their battle to spiral out there in the open. (Justice League v2 #24)

Overview

Employees

  • Perry White :
  • Burt Mason : a male publisher at the Daily Planet. (Superman v1 #5)
  • Lois Lane :
  • Clark Kent :
  • Cat Grant :
  • Jimmy Olsen :
  • Ron Troupe :
  • Franklin Stern :
  • Steve Lombard :
  • Dirk Armstrong : (Superman: The Man of Steel v1 #61)
  • Morna Vine : a brown-haired woman who was the niece of Morna Vine who was the Planet's biggest stockholder with her finding a destroyed Superman Robot where she recovered components to make equipment that helped her to become an ace reporter. (Superman v1 #181)
  • Mark Vine : a male shareholder who was the uncle of Morna Vine. (Superman v1 #181)
  • Roger Tate : the identity used by the ginger haired time displaced Hercules who was given the persona of a reporter to hide his true nature. (Action Comics v1 #267)
  • Percival Bratten : (Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen v1 #151)
  • Margaret Tempest : (Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen v1 #149)
  • Steve Bard : (Superman v1 #29)
  • David Stevens :
  • Justin Moore :
  • Belinda Izquierdo :
  • Heather Kelley : (Superman v3 #2)
  • Trist Q : (DC Nation v2 #0)
  • Robsinon Goode : dark skinned female reporter who joined the Planet who was formerly with the Star City Sentinel. (DC Nation v2 #0)
  • Marisol Leone :

Notes

  • The Daily Planet was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster where it made its first appearance in Action Comics v1 #23 (April, 1940).

Alternate Versions

In other media

Television

  • In Superman, the Daily Planet made several appearances in the 1988 animated television series. The Hunter targeted the Daily Planet in an effort to draw out Superman.
  • In the DC Animated Universe, the Daily Planet made a number of appearances in the shared continuity setting:
    • In Superman: The Animated Series, the Daily Planet made its first appearance in the animated television series.
    • In Justice League, the Daily Planet made brief appearances in the animated television series.
  • In Smallville, the Daily Planet building appeared in the setting of the live-action television series where it was located across the street from the LuthorCorp building.
  • In Supergirl, the Daily Planet was mentioned in several episodes of the live-action television series.
  • In Superman & Lois, the Daily Planet appeared in the setting of the live-action television series. It was shown to had been bought out by Morgan Edge who focused the papers efforts on different stories that promoted a positive advertisement of his activities. This saw Clark Kent being fired and Lois Lane later resigned from the paper after Edge had re-written one of her articles that had a negative article on one of his works.

Films

  • In Superman: Doomsday, the Daily Planet appeared in the setting of the 2007 direct-to-video film.
  • In Superman Unbound, the Daily Planet appeared in the setting of the 2013 direct-to-video adaptation of the comic storyline.
  • In the DC Extended Universe, the Daily Planet made multiple appearances in the shared continuity setting.
    • In Man of Steel, the Daily Planet made its first appearance in the live-action film. Among its staff members were Jenny Jurwich who was an intern, junior reporter and later assistant editor.
    • In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the Daily Planet made an appearance in the live-action film.
  • In The Death of Superman, the Daily Planet appeared in the setting of the 2018 animated film.
  • In Superman: The Man of Tomorrow, the Daily Planet appeared in the setting of the 2020 animated film.

Video games

  • In Superman: Shadow of Apokolips, the Daily Planet appeared in the setting of the video game set in the DC Animated Universe.
  • In Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, the Daily Planet appeared as a playable stage in the fighting video game.
  • In DC Universe Online, the Daily Planet appeared in the setting of the MMORPG where it was located in Downtown Metropolis and had been bottled up by Brainiac.

Appearances

  • Action Comics v1: (1940)
  • Superman v1:
  • Superman: The Man of Steel v1: (1996)
  • World of Metropolis v1:
  • Superman/Batman v1:
  • Justice League v2:
  • Superman v3:
  • The Man of Steel v2:
  • Superman v4:

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