Note toward the end of the article it says that Troupe is the most "highly educated and awarded" reporter on the Planet staff. yet I'll be switched if I can remember him being really meaningful in the Superman world.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Johnson" <keithbjohn...@comcast.net> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 2:23:30 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Does Superman have a black friend? - Ron Troupe I think you might be confusing the editor role with Robbie Robertson, editor of the Daily Planet in the Marvel Universe. There is a reporter of color who's been around in the Superman books for years: Ron Troupe. Troupe's one of those black characters that's really smart and calm and educated and dependable. He is married to Lois Lane's sister Lucy. I remember reading some books years ago where Lois' father had major issues with his daughter marrying the black reporter. I've never thought of Troupe as a close friend of Clark's, a la Jimmy Olsen, and frankly, while I've read superman comics for some four decades, I can't remember him making a real big contribution to the storylines over the years. He reminds me of those black characters added to be really impressive, but then not really central to the storyline. It was treatment like that that irritated me about Pete Ross on "Smallville" being recast as a Black man who then was pretty useless and ignored in the stories. Here's some info on Troupe: ******************************************************************** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Troupe Ron Troupe >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Ron Troupe Ron Troupe Publication information Publisher DC Comics First appearance Adventures of Superman #480 (July 1991) Created by Jerry Ordway (writer) Tom Grummett (artist) In-story information Alter ego Ronald Troupe Team affiliations Daily Planet Newstime Magazine Supporting character of Superman Abilities Trained journalist, above average powers of observation Ron Troupe is a fictional journalist , a supporting comic book character published by DC Comics . He debuted in Adventures of Superman #480 (July 1991), and was created by Jerry Ordway and Tom Grummett . Alongside with Cat Grant , he is one of the most enduring characters of the Daily Planet bullpen created in DC's Post-Crisis Universe. He first appeared in Adventures of Superman #480 (July 1991), where he is turned down for a job at the Daily Planet by acting-editor Sam Foswell. In the following issue, he got a job at Colin Thornton 's Newstime magazine, when Jimmy Olsen was late for his interview. Shortly afterwards he was fired from Newstime , and hired by Perry White , who had returned to the Planet . During the Reign of the Supermen , White compared Troupe's piece on the Cyborg Superman to the first Superman stories by Lois Lane and Clark Kent . Troupe is one of the Planet 's more level-headed reporters, and not as likely to get into situations he cannot get out of as Lois or Jimmy, although he is still prepared to run risks in pursuit of a story. He has twice taken on the racist supervillain Bloodsport II . During events following the selling of Daily Planet to LexCorp , Ron Troupe and Lois Lane's sister Lucy Lane , were having an affair. In current Superman comics, he is married to Lucy, and they have a son, Samuel Troupe, named for her father Sam Lane . [ 1 ] Since the events of Infinite Crisis , Ron and Lucy's relationship has not been explored. Lucy now works in Washington D.C. for the military and Ron is still in Metropolis. According to Action Comics Annual #11 (May 2008), Ron Troupe is the most highly educated reporter on staff at the Daily Planet , and has more awards than anyone else at the paper. It is also stated that he is known for his political editorials, he is an avid activist in too many groups to list, and he often butts heads with Daily Planet Sports Editor Steve Lombard on nearly everything. ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Arterberry" <brotherfromhow...@yahoo.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:07:25 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Does Superman have a black friend? I may be dating my comic collecting time lines.But didn't the Daily planet have a Black editor ? --- On Tue, 7/28/09, Justin Mohareb <justinmoha...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Justin Mohareb <justinmoha...@gmail.com> Subject: [scifinoir2] Does Superman have a black friend? To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 11:52 AM Just out of curiosity, can anyone remember a significant POC that Superman interacted with on a regular basis? Super or non. Seriously, is Metropolis just the least metrpolutan city in the world? Justin
