Lara
Surprisingly little is known about Superman's mother. "Noted for her
advanced intellect as well as her beauty," she worked in a shop that
manufactured robots prior to her marriage to Jor-El. During the
period immediately preceeding the marriage, she served as Jor-El's
assistant at the Kryptonian missle base where Jor-El was engaged in
top-level research.
At the time the lovely, dark-haired Lara gave birth to the infant Superman,
she and her husband were residing in
Kryptonopolis, the city that became
the capital of Krypton following the theft of Kandor
by the space villain Brainiac.
When doomsday finally came, and Jor-El
urged her to flee the holocaust with their infant son in an experimental
rocket, Lara steadfastly refused to leave her husband's side.
"I will not leave you, Jor-El!" she cried. "But we will save our son!"
Hurriedly, "the helpless infant was placed into the space-ship," and
the tiny craft was "launched forth into the void."
"Krypton is dying!" cried Jor-El, as the ruins of Krypton crumbled
about them.
"But our son will live," answered Lara, " - the last survivor of
a great civilization!"
Then, as husband and wife clung together in a desperate last embrace,
"nature's fury gathered for one final cataclysmic eruption... And as
the pitifully small space-ship hurtled through interstellar space,
the once mighty Krypton exploded into stardust!"
Because he remembers his parents as having been so loving and kind - and
because the anguish of losing them in childhood was so unbearably
painful - Superman has memorialized his parents in numerous ways,
the most well-known of these being the memorial in his
Fortress of Solitude.
The wife of Jor-El and the mother of Superman.
Offered the chance
to flee the impending death of Krypton by escaping to Earth with her
infant son, she steadfastly refused to abandon her husband, remaining
behind with him instead to perish in the cataclysm.
When, around the time of Superman's birth, Jor-El made the dire discovery
that Krypton was on the verge of exploding "like one colossal atomic
bomb," Lara was one of the few Kryptonians who believed Jor-El's
prophecy of impending cataclysm.
entry origin: stta 1.0