Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Metropolis

First Appearance: Adventure Comics I #120 (September, 1947)

Powers: Perry was a skilled journalist and editor.

Powers: Perry was a skilled journalist and editor.

History: (New Adventures of Superboy #12) - Metropolis reporter Perry White was in Smallville for an interview with the recently debuted Superboy, and together they foiled  Cracker  Bain s plan to murder local officer Rowe. Superboy trusted Perry and gave him the exclusive about his alien origins. Perry reported the story fairly, and although there was a divide of opinions Congress approved making Superboy a special citizenship. Perry s story made his career.

(Superman I #51) -Mr. Mxyztplk proposed to Lois Lane, and refused to stop causing mischief until she consented. Lois agreed on the condition that he prove he was a better reporter, thus forcing Superman to help her win and help her career. Mxy scooped her getting an exclusive interview with millionaire recluse Seymour Salmon and getting the exclusive on an experimental rocket. Perry was worried about losing his star reporter so he gave Lois and Mxy the assignment of getting Superman to answer three questions. Lois seemed a lock until Mxy assaulted  Metropolis with a giant hot sauce jar, and while Superman cleaned up the mess he responded to Mxyztplk's banter and answered three questions. Lois told Superman she'd never forgive him, and the marriage ceremony started. When the preacher asked if there were any objections Superman claimed Mxyztplk was an imposter named Klptzyxm, and Mxy was irritated enough to speak his name backwards in defense of himself, sending him back to Zriff.

(Superman I #51) - The Brighton Armored Company replaced their armored cars with tanks, and Perry sent Lois and Clark to cover the story. The tanks seemed to be a big success until crime genius Mr. Ohm built a plane equipped with a super-magnet to hijack the tanks. Superman couldn't stop them because the magnet repelled a magnetic substance in Superman's costume. During their next hijack Superman built his own super-magnet to counteract Ohm's and catch the crook.

(Action Comics I #226) - Metropolis archaeologists discovered the Petrified Spaceman, an ancient alien that had gone into torpor and was being displayed by sideshow exhibitor Barnum Bolton. The Spaceman awoke, and went on a rampage, stealing glass throughout the city. Perry sent Lois and Clark to cover the story, and when the Spaceman took Clatrk's glasses and Lois' glass crystal wristwatch without harming them, they knew he didn't mean to hurt anyone. Clark changed into Superman, and realized the confused alien was after ice, not glass, so he brought blocks of ice to cool him down, restoring his mind. The Spaceman was grateful, telling Superman he was an astronaut from Ice World, and the heat of Earth had left him in a daze as he desperately tried to cool himself. Superman returned him to his home world by constructing a spacecraft out of ice and hurling it into space, guided to Ice World by his telescopic vision.

(Action Comics I #227) - Superman went to the dedication of a statue of General Van Sturtant, but his x-ray vision had gone out of control, and he burned a hole through the statue and burned up a condemned building before managing to shut his eyes. While blind he dug into the Earth and retrieved a quantity of lead, which his x-ray vision couldn't penetrate, and fashioned a pair of glasses so his vision would be contained, although he still couldn't see through the eyewear. Perry wanted Clark to cover the story of Superman's out of control powers, and Lois tried to prove he was Superman by having him read one of her columns to her. He took off his glasses at superspeed and used a lead mirror to read and memorize the article to foil her. Scientists eventually found that a malfunctioning x-ray machine boosted Superman's vision, and he was able to discharge the excess radiation and cure himself by using his x-ray vision to blow a hole in an uninhabited planet.

(Action Comics I #228) - Poisonous smog hit Metropolis hard, and Superman constructed a giant fan to drive it away from the city. Lois covered the story, and Superman said he'd decided to commemorate his career by building a Superman Museum. Digging up iron ore and a coal-seam he created his construction materials, and assembled the skyscraper that would house his museum by hand. Perry sent Lois and Jimmy to cover the museum opening, even though he thought Superman was getting full of himself even though Lois defended him. Superman gave the inaugural tour of the museum, recounting lost adventures of his past, including stopping Lex Luthor with a parabolic reflector and halting the rampage of mechanical mythological creatures that ran amok in Metropolis. Racketeer Jay Emery was hoping the museum would house dangerous weapons and technology, and when Superman told Lois the center of the building was a gigantic air shaft he presumed that it held the devices too dangerous to be on display. Lois was also determined to get a look at the secret shaft, and when she saw mementos being delivered to the museum she spotted a lead chest and hopped inside, only to be met by Emery, who was using the chest to sneak inside the museum himself. Superman was already in the shaft, which the Superman Museum was simply a cover for. Poisonous gas from the earth was leaking, and had caused the recent smog. He didn't want to cause a panic, so he'd built the museum as a cover. After venting the gas he saved Lois from Emery and revealed that he'd constructed the museum as modular units, and took it apart to create housing for Metropolis' underprivileged population.

(Action Comics I #229) - Superman went into space to smash an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, and astronomers witnessed his display and reported the news. Dr. John Haley went to the Daily Planet and warned Perry and Lois that the asteroid was composed of a poisonous element, and if Superman returned to Earth he'd risk destroying the human race. Perry flashed the warning to Superman on the Planet's electric news sign, and Superman resigned himself to being an exile. He refused to stop helping people, and orbited the planet looking for people needing his help. He saw a ship about to collide with an iceberg, so he turned an iron meteor into a mile-long lasso, and pulled the iceberg away, depositing it in a drought-stricken area of the Midwest to provide much needed water as it melted. Using moon rocks he scared off elephants stampeding towards a village in Asia and stopped a flood in Switzerland. Lois was heartbroken, but Perry worried that with Superman gone crooks would be planning a big heist. Lois started investigating, and a gang of criminals kidnapped her. They'd already kidnapped Haley; the man claiming that Superman could never return to Earth was one of their own in disguise. Their hq was lead-lined, so Superman couldn't see what they were up to from space, but he made a gigantic periscope from another iron meteor and uncovered their chicanery, saving Lois and Hale and rounding them up when he returned to his adopted planet.

(Action Comics I #231) - Clark accompanied Jimmy when he was summoned to the office of Prof. Z. Peabody, chief of Metropolis Archives. Peabody was researching the Kingdom of Vumania, and learned that Jimmy was a descendant of their last king, who'd died centuries ago. According to the kingdom's charter Jimmy could claim the throne if he slew a dragon, broke a wizard's spell, and saved a fair maiden while dressed as a knight. Peabody realized the tasks would be ceremonial, but he'd still have to carry them out, and suggested Superman as a reliable witness. Superman flew to Vumania, which had been reduced to a small uninhabited island after a flood, and felt bad that he'd have to break the bad news to Jimmy, who was dreaming of pomp and circumstance. Superman returned to Metropolis and witnessed a car striking Jimmy, who was mostly unharmed thanks to his rented armor, and he overheard the driver and accomplice saying they'd stop at nothing to keep him from the throne. Superman decided to play along with Jimmy's deeds to find out why the thugs were interested in a worthless island. Perry had Lois cover the story, and act as the fair maiden in need of rescuing, while Superman prevented the criminals from interfering. Jimmy won the crown, and Superman discovered that Vumania housed the underground base of the Sea Gang, and quickly rounded them up.

(Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #1) - Lois overheard Daily Planet advice columnist Mr. Romance tell a woman that the way to a man's heart was through his stomach, so she decided to win Superman over with her cooking. She became chef at Dick's Diner when Dick Morgan had to close it down to recover from surgery, and sold the idea to Perry White as a human interest piece.

(Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #1) - Perry sent Clark to get a scoop on a foreign spy ring, but Lois beat him to it, using her new 'witch powers.'

(Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #2) - Mammoth Studios began filming "The Life of Superman" in Metropolis, and Superman agreed to play himself because half the earnings would go to charity. Perry and the staff of the Daily Planet were offered bit parts, and all of them passed a screen test except Lois Lane, who got nervous. Director Daryl Zorne made her a prop girl, and had her part played by lookalike Gilda Glamarr, and Lois seethed with jealousy. A number of near-fatal accidents plagued the set, and it seemed as though Lois was behind them, so Zorne told her to leave the set and Superman told her he never wanted to see her again. It was actually all a ploy by Superman, who showed Zorne footage of Lois being jealous, angry and heartbroken; convincing Zorne she could indeed become a good actress.

(Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #2) - Perry received papers that exposed a Mexican smuggling ring, and hid the papers in the Daily Planet safe. The criminals behind the ring had Daily Planet elevator operator Dan Jones pose as Superman to win over Lois Lane and gain access to Perry's safe, but she realized it was a ruse and the police arrested the gang.

(Superman s Pal Jimmy Olsen #30) - Jimmy was working on a book exposing the Bedone Gang, and Perry advised him to keep the manuscript at the Planet for safety. Jimmy was convinced the Bedone Gang would never try to steal from him because of his signal watch, but the Bedone Gang used science fiction props to convince Jimmy there were super-emergencies, and Jimmy s constant signaling of Superman for false alarms made the Man of Steel start ignoring the watch. The Bedones stole the manuscript, but Jimmy jammed his watch and hid it in the sheets, so that when Superman finally responded he found the gang s hq.

(Superman s Pal Jimmy Olsen #31) - Perry had Jimmy do a feature on historical hat collector Mr. Smith, but the old rake played a joke on Jimmy, convincing him he d gain the abilities of the personalities the hats originally belonged to if he tried them on. Superman saved the day before Jimmy could get himself killed playing hero.

(Superman s Pal Jimmy Olsen #31) - Jimmy hit Perry up for a raise, but was turned down because of his spate of misprint errors. Jimmy was determined to teach Perry that he should be grateful for his services, so he volunteered to be put into a cryogenic freeze for the good of science. In reality Jimmy put a dummy in the block of ice and assumed the new identity of Gilbert Knox and got a job at the Planet, planning to show Perry what a bad reporter really was. Superman was wise to him, and wanted to teach Jimmy a lesson. Every time  Gilbert  called on Superman for wild goose chases Superman found a way to perform heroic acts and make Gilbert a star reporter. Gilbert was promoted and given his own office, so he decided to abandon his old life as Jimmy Olsen. Superman wasn't done giving him a lesson on not hoaxing people, and melted the ice containing the Jimmy dummy, forcing Jimmy to return to his old life so no one would know of his duplicity. Jimmy was rehired by Perry, but had to suffer through lectures about how he paled in comparison to Gilbert.

(Action Comics I #254) - Lex Luthor visited Smallville and came across an old newspaper story about Professor Dalton, who used a duplicator ray to create the Bizarro Superboy. Luthor stole Dalton’s plans for the duplicator ray to build his own, and showed off the ray to his lab assistant Vekko, bragging that he’d use it to destroy superman. Luthor posed as “Professor Clyde” and phoned up Perry White, telling him he’d come up with an antidote for kryptonite. Superman visited his lab, and “Clyde” had him stand in front of the duplicator way under the pretense of making him immune to kryptonite. The duplicator ray created Bizarro, an imperfect duplicate of superman with stony skin and a backwards mind. Luthor took off his disguise and ordered Bizarro to destroy Superman, but Bizarro realized he was a monstrosity, and was furious at Luthor for creating him. He grabbed Luthor and Vekko to take them to jail, and admitted to Superman that he didn’t know the difference between right and wrong and didn’t belong in the world. Superman decided he’d have to be destroyed, reasoning that it was morally correct because Bizarro was lifeless matter in human form, but first had to deal with a massive tidal wave causing havoc at sea. Through a series of misunderstandings Bizarro became convinced Lois Lane wa sin love with him, and tried to kill Superman with kryptonite to keep him from interfering in what he thought was a budding romance.

(Superman I #169) - Teenage Ned Barnes grew up idolizing Superboy, and one day his house caught fire and Superboy rescued him, but his face was horribly burned. A brilliant plastic surgeon offered to repair his face and Ned asked him to make him look just like his hero Superboy. Ned Barnes was a weakling and suffered years of bullying because of his resemblance to Superboy without any of his strength. Ned grew to hate Superboy, and vowed revenge on him. As an adult Ned turned to crime, and mobsters Big Tony and Gunner hired him for a job because of his resemblance to superman. Dressed as Superman he entered a top-secret manufacturing plant and took pictures of a prototype spaceship, claiming he was on a mission from the NSA. His ruse was uncovered and he went into hiding. As fate would have it he ran into Sally Selwyn, who was once in a romantic relationship with Clark Kent, who she knew as Jim White. She thought Jim had drowned and was overjoyed that her long lost love had returned. She imagined that Jim survived his fall into the water and suffered from amnesia, but hoped she could resume their relationship. Ned played along, but hoped to get out of town once the heat died down, and Sally soon noticed that her paramour was a lot rougher around the edges than she’d remembered. The real Clark Kent learned about Ned Barnes crime over the news wire and asked Perry White if he could cover the story. Perry agreed, and told him to go to the Ace Ranch and buy a horse. Perry had just lost a bet with Jimmy Olsen after picking Daily Planet in a horse race, and wanted his own horse named after his newspaper that would be a winner. Clark found a stallion that fit the bill, but when Sally, whose father owned the ranch, spotted him she thought he was Jim and embraced and kissed him. Clark’s memory of his time with Sally suddenly came back, and he was overwhelmed that a woman loved him for himself, as Clark Kent and not Superman. Clark tumbled on to the fact that she thought he was Ned, and decided to sleep on the matter. In the morning Clark decided that he was in love and wanted to marry Sally, which he’d do right after bringing Ned to justice. Ned started to feel bad about fooling sally because he could see what a good heart she had, but his reverie was interrupted by big Tony and Gunner. They thought he’d skipped out on them and decided to marry and go straight. Gunner aimed his rifle at sally, who was in the distance, saying he’d kill her to get back at Ned. Ned fought them, and they all tumbled down a cliff. Tony and gunner died instantly, but Ned clung to life. Superman found him, and his dying wish was that superman not tell Sally that Ned was really a criminal because he didn’t want to break her heart. Superman was in shock, and came to the realization that if he married Sally crooks like Gunner and Tony would come after her all the time, so he couldn’t give in and marry her. Superman met Sally and told her her love sacrificed his life to save her. Sally broke down in tears in her father’s arms, saying that it seemed like a cruel joke that she’d been reunited with the man of her dreams only for him to die again. She said she’d always keep the love she had for Jim White in her heart.

(Superman I #169) - Bizarro #1 brought a legion of Bizarro Supermen to Earth, telling Superman they were going to prove how much they liked him by destroying the planet, but proceeded to run away when they spotted a sparrow because it was not able to harm them. Superman decided the Bizarros backward thinking didn’t make them a threat to consider seriously, and figured they might provide some laughs for him while they were on Earth. The Bizarros spotted superman fix the support structures of a bridge so they decided to show him they could fix things worse than he could. The Bizarros put arms on the Venus de Milo, sealed the crack in the Liberty Bell, and straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa. They spotted Superman yelling at a boy for being a litterbug, so they grabbed up garbage dump trucks and flew them around Metropolis, scattering waste. Perry White told Lois and Clark to get the Daily Planet payroll, and on their way back they were ambushed by armed criminals, and Clark couldn’t leap into action, fearing revealing his identity in front of Lois. Bizarro #1 made good his promise to destroy the planet by smashing the Daily Planet’s globe before flying off into space, and letters from the Planet sign fell onto the crooks, knocking them out and inadvertently saving the day for Clark.

(Action Comics I #379) - Clark Kent covered the funeral of noted occultist Dr. Phantas. Phantas’ lawyer Mark Sharpe showed Clark around Phantas’ mansion, and said no one knew where Phantas came from or how he came by his supernatural powers, and Clark thought the lawyer’s stories were poppycock. At the funeral a tape and projection of Phantas was played, saying he forbade anyone to open his coffin, lest they bring a horrible curse on themselves. Sharpe needed to open the coffin to find out who Phantas’ heirs were, so Clark said he’d get his friend Superman to do it, and changed outside. Superman opened the casket, only for Phantas to rise up and tell him Clark Kent and all his friends would pay dearly for activating his curse before vanishing. Superman was convinced there had to be a logical explanation, but when his story ran Perry White played up the curse angle. That afternoon Lois alerted Clark that his friend Ed Carver had died under mysterious circumstances, and Jimmy Olsen was convinced it was the curse, but Lois chalked it up to coincidence. Reporter Steve Fallon, who Clark knew, died when a liquid oxygen truck turned over on the highway and the liquid froze him to death. Lois now agreed with Jimmy that something was off, and Perry sent Clark home for the sake of staff morale. Three more of Clark’s reporter friends died and Clark found himself ostracized from the Metropolis press club. Clark was set to appear on Greet The Press, but the show was cancelled when his friend Ned Masters was electrocuted by his microphone. Clark realized that all the reporters to die had been with him on a recent plane flight from Washington, and disguised himself as Mark Durbin, the last reporter besides himself from the flight that was still alive, and hid with Mark win a bank vault. A ghostly Phantas, calling himself the Eliminator passed through the vault’s walls and when “Mark” asked him why he was trying to kill him Phantas thought he was feigning ignorance. Phantas recounted how the reporters were all actually renegade murderers from Rhadmath fleeing justice. They’d used Rhadmanthian transverter technology to assume the forms and memories of the reporters aboard the plane from Washington, teleporting them into their spaceship and taking their place. They could not target Clark because of his Kryptonian physiology. Phantas was the Eliminator of Rhadmath, taked with executing the criminals, and traveled to Earth to pursue them, setting up the ruse of an occultist and his curse on Clark Kent to keep secret the involvement of Rhadmanthians on Earth. Phantas struck “Mark” with a bolt of energy, disintegrating his disguise, but the beam ricocheted and killed the real Durbin. Phantas freed the real reporters from the Rhadmanthians spaceship, and told Superman not to judge him, because as Eliminator he was tasked with enforcing the law of his homeworld.

(Action Comics I #380, 381) - The Superman Revenge Squad sent the Liquidators, Dorx and Krit, to Earth with a detailed plan to destroy Superman’s reputation. Superman returned from a mission in space, and the Liquidators surreptitiously exposed him to artificial red kryptonite that gave him a conscience syndrome that would make him prone to feeling guilty for things he had not done. The Liquidators destroyed the Iwo Jima memorial and replaced it with a Superman statue, and Krit, wearing robotic armor, smashed into the Metropolis Mint, melted a number of coins and engraved Superman’s likeness on others. The authorities were convinced that some evil doer was trying to frame Superman and ruin his reputation, but Superman’s conscience syndrome made him wonder if he was having blackouts and committing crimes. Superman suspected that if he was responsible his behavior could be explained by exposure to red kryptonite, and went to the Fortress of Solitude to use his newly created red k detector. Dorx, disguised as Supergirl, met him there, and offered to help him use the detector. Superman stepped inside the detector, which ran an electrical current over him that would turn him red if he’d been exposed to red k, and although the test revealed his exposure Dorx lied to him, saying he hadn’t changed color. Dorx suggested he chain himself up before going to sleep, and if he broke the chains in his sleep he’d know he was committing crimes after falling unconscious. She also poured chemicals on the chains that would shatter them before Superman woke, and after rejoining Krit they destroyed Mt. Rushmore, then carving Superman’s image into the mountain. Superman was convinced that he was guilty, and had a criminal superego that was surfacing. He went to the Daily Planet, typed out a number of stories in which he confessed to the Liquidator’s crimes, and gave his confession to Perry, Lois and Jimmy, who told him they believed he was innocent. Superman returned to the Fortress and retrieved his box containing gold kryptonite, which would forever remove his super powers, deciding that was preferable to abusing his great power to cause harm. News stories popped up on Superman’s satellite television screens, and he noticed how fuzzy the picture was. Examining the Telstar satellite that relayed television to the Fortress he realized someone had placed artificial red k inside it. Superman came up with a plan to catch the perpetrators and put back the gold k before smashing the door to the Fortress and flying to the U.N. ready to stand trial for his crimes. The Liquidators watched him on their remote viewscreen do everything in his power to make the evidence against him fit. Noticing the Fortress was accessible they went inside to raid it and started bragging about how they’d framed Superman. Superman had the Fortress bugged, and their confession was broadcast to the U.N., clearing Superman’s name. The Liquidators, realizing they were exposed, fled in their spaceship. Superman allowed them to escape, knowing the penalty for failing a Revenge Squad mission was to be put into lifelong slavery by the Squad.

(Action Comics I #382) - Clark Kent wrote an obituary for his friend Mr. Presto, a world famous magician who’d left his chest of magic tricks to Clark. Clark noticed the balloons Lois was going to bring to the children’s hospital were floating against the ceiling, and flew up to retrieve them, knowing no one would see him. He returned them to Lois, who was suspicious as to how he got them down, once again accusing him of being Superman. He said he’d used Presto’s magic wand, and when Lois demanded to see another trick Clark wove the wand, and woke a sleeping Perry White, who was lifted off his office couch. Clark had actually used his x-ray vision to create a negative magnetism in the couch springs, which repelled Perry, who had a metal cigar case in his coat. Perry was infuriated, and fired Clark. Clark told Lois he was inspired to take Presto’s tricks and start a career as a stage magician. She thought it was a foolish career change, but wished him luck anyway. Kento the Great showed up at a talent agency, and after foiling a robbery of the agency the grateful talent agent got him a number of lucrative bookings where Kento used his superpowers to feign magic tricks. Jimmy Olsen attended the shows and after writing a number of glowing reviews in the Daily Planet Perry fired him for giving Kento free publicity. Kento hired Jimmy as his magician’s assistant, portraying Samson, the Might a “magic puppet” who could perform feats of strength. Criminal Rogan and his gang stole Samson, hoping to use the puppet to dig the sky-gem, a carbonized satellite that passed through a comet and turned into a giant diamond, out of the mountain it crashed into. After realizing Samson was Jimmy Olsen in a costume, returned to find Kento and learn his secrets. Kento was aware of Rogan because of his x-ray vision, and constructed a Superman puppet, using ventriloquism to make it appear alive. Rogan hit Kento with a blackjack, and Kento pretended to be knocked out, but when they drove off with the Superman puppet he disguised himself as the puppet and used his superspeed to take its’ place without the crooks noticing. After retrieving the sky-gem he dropped the act and arrested the criminals. When Perry learned that Superman had given Clark and Jimmy the exclusive rights to the sky-gem story he hired them both back, but Clark mused that he might one day take up stage magic again.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #130) - Perry yelled at Jimmy for not getting an interview with reclusive star Liz Cuyrton, and told him to go home until he stopped acting like he was in a fog, never realizing that Jimmy was under the influence of Brainiac s tele-mento ray.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #130) - Perry, Clark and Lois watched the Fltying Mercurys, the newsies spreading the word about the new Metropolis paper the Morning Mercury. Perry complained that it was a cheap rag, but really was concerned about the competition, and sent his people off to get stories. The Mercury was actually a criminal front that was later taken down by Jimmy and Superman.

(DC Comics Presents #11) - Lois, Jimmy and Perry met with Marc Teichman, winner of the Daily Planet s charity lottery drawing and a Super-Day of spending time with Superman

(DC Comics Presents #14) - 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 #22 (BTS)) -A panicked Captain Comet came to the Daily Planet looking for Superman s help. Lois Lane wanted to pursue the story, but Perry White yelled at her, needing her to rewrite an article.

(DC Comics Presents #41) - Jimmy got a report over the newswire that Joker had broken Prankster out of prison, and asked Lois if she wanted to cover the story. She said costumed crooks bored her silly, but Clark was interested in investigating as Superman, so when he learned the villains were headed to L.A. he asked Perry if he could join him at the journalists conference in Beverly Hills. Lois was going, entranced  by the glamour, and thought Clark would be a wet blanket. Clark changed into Superman, and interrupted the Prankster and Joker looting the estate sale of famous comedian Jerry Travis. Perry wondered where Clark was, and made his way to the estate sale. Prankster took him hostage, forcing Superman to back off. Perry was held in an abandoned hangar filled with booby-traps, but once Superman defeated the villains he learned of Perry s whereabouts and saved him.

(DC Comics Presents #42) - Clark visited the Daily Planet and asked Perry if he could do a series about war, and how people were affected by it, but Perry told him that was philosophy, not journalism. Clark s sentiments convinced the Unknown Soldier, who knew his secret identity, to ask for his help in defeating a group of survivalists that were trying to spark a new world war.

(Action Comics I #562) - Perry and the rest of the Daily Planet employees got tickets to Steve Lombard's play "Damn Yankees" and they wanted to support their friend in his new venture by seeing him even though they knew he was no actor. Perry patched things up with Alice long enough to get her to go, and he won her over again when he chased pickpockets that tried taking advantage of a break between acts.

(Action Comics I #568) -  Perry brought his grandchildren to Jinx Turner's charity magic show, but Jinx was a real sorcerer and he accidentally teleported the children to India. Perry was furious, but Superman went across the world and brought Perry's grandkids home.

(Action Comics I #568) - Perry found his staff working late night at the office and asked them if they didn't have anything better to do, not realizing they were getting over meeting and losing the loves of their life thanks to the thought-analyzer.

(Action Comics I #574) - Mr. Mxyzptlk was so proud of the birth of his son Kytsbtn that he threw a party and the Daily Planet, forced Perry and other staff members to attend, and decided to commemorate the decision by freezing time and keeping the day from ever ending. Clark reminded him that if he froze time he would never have the pleasure of seeing his son growing up. Mxy saw the logic in this, set things right, and returned to the 5th Dimension.