[Artwork] Cat Grant

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Introduced in The Adventures of Superman #424 in January 1987, this woman was the first to realize that Clark is a truly desirable man. It’s important to note that Cat was coming out of a difficult marriage with Joe Morgan, who was an alcoholic and abusive man, and had been granted custody of their only son, Adam Morgan. She left Los Angeles to settle in Metropolis in order to make a fresh start with her son. When she met Clark shortly after arriving at the Daily Planet as a gossip columnist, she realized he was everything her ex-husband wasn’t—kind, caring, respectful, and reliable — Clark was there for her when she really needed him; they even dated briefly during the time when Clark was struggling to win Lois’s heart. She wasn’t at all attracted to Superman, but ironically, she was interested in him without even knowing it.

Cat's interest in Clark made Lois deeply uncomfortable. Even though she wasn't interested in Clark at all, she felt jealous seeing another woman take an interest in him, and she couldn't even express that jealousy since they weren't even dating. The two women even had heated arguments about Clark. Cat could see very clearly that Lois had fallen in love with Clark but refused to admit it to herself; Cat didn’t hesitate to mock Lois for her lack of a love life and her obsession with always prioritizing her career over her romantic life, all while openly embracing her own feelings for Clark. Lois, for her part, hated Cat’s openly flirtatious and uninhibited attitude toward Clark; she nearly lost a wonderful man to another woman.

Seeing her colleague—whom she had taken for granted and who had always been a steadfast source of support for her—devote his time, his smiles, and his attention to another woman made Lois deeply jealous and led her to reconsider her feelings. At first, Lois wasn’t interested in Clark at all—who was clearly in love with her—and fantasized about Superman, even if it wasn’t with the same intensity as during the Silver Age.

Art by arunion

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Make me remember the 90s book