Superman Returns Henry Cavill as Superman. For the previous five years, Superman has mysteriously abandoned his adopted home of Earth while on a journey into outer space to investigate what astronomers believed to be an intact Krypton. In his absence, journalist and past love Lois Lane wrote a scathing article "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman", winning her the Pulitzer Prize. Lois is engaged to Richard White, the nephew of "Daily Planet" editor-in-chief Perry White, and with whom she shares a young asthmatic son, Jason. Notorious criminal mastermind Lex Luthor secured an early release from prison due to Superman not appearing as
Mongo (fictional planet) the Arlene Williamson version. Starting April 22, 1935, the radio serial "The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon", began airing. The series featured stories set on Mongo, closely following the plot of the comic strip. The 1936 serial depicts Mongo as a rogue planet drifting towards Earth. The serial's Mongo is a wild, rocky planet filled with monsters. The second Flash Gordon serial was set on Mars, but the third returned to Mongo. In "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe" Flash and his friends travel to Mongo's land of Frigia to find a cure for the Purple Death, which is ravishing