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Jor El was his Superman’s real pop, right? I get all that confused. There was Mon El and Kal El too, but I forget who was who and what was what.

Not allowing for post-silver age revisions, Kal-El is Clark Kent/Superman. I think Hawkman gets to call him by that name (it's a Thanagorian thing). Jor-El is the dad, Lara is his mom, and her maiden name also began with an "L." Supes always had this obssessive/compulsive thing with LL women (Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Lori LeMaris). Zor-El was Jor-El's brother in Argo City, which flew off in one chunk with Zor-El, his wife, and daughter Kara (Supergirl). Kryptonian religion does not allow first cousins to marry, making it considerably stiffer than say, the Old Testament, especially given the circumstances. Ten-million Kandorians who were abducted pre-explosion by Braniac and shrunk, are also around. Why Superman didn't look for a mate in Kandor is beyond me (they can expand and shrink a handful of people, just not the whole city.) Mon-El is a relative to Kal, but I forget the details. Krypto was put in an experimental rocket, that found its way to earth, along with all of those indestructible Kryptonite meteorites. There's more, much more, but that is what's off the top of my head.

Mon-el was from a different planet, but crashed on Krypton...Jor-el helped him out, then steered him toward Earth before the explosion. Mon-el caught the amnesia, and Supes treated him like a big bro, but eventually it was all figured out and Mon-el went back to his home planet.

Ah, I love the Supes of the 60’s...

Ah, yeah. That starts ringing a lot of bells. Sometimes I could never get it all clear. I enjoyed the Superman line of comics, but never really got into all the minutea. As a kid in the 70s, I always preferred the Superman comics with the ‘older’ reprint stories to what was then-current.

But wait, if you are Dr. Sivana, you should be more versed in Captain Marvel lore, correct? Names like Black Adam and Freddy Freeman, right? Or, Mary Marvel’s girl friend with the freckles and pigtails? Things like that.