George Taylor (DC Comics)
| George Taylor | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance |
Action Comics #1 (June 1938) |
| Created by | Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster |
| In-story information | |
| Team affiliations |
Daily Star Daily Planet |
| Supporting character of |
Superman Clark Kent Lois Lane |
| Abilities | None |
George Taylor is a fictional character who appears in the Superman comic books published by DC Comics. In most incarnations, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Metropolis newspaper the Daily Star.
The character was introduced by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster as the unnamed editor who gave Clark Kent his first job as a reporter, in Action Comics #1, June 1938. His name was not revealed for more than a year (in Superman #2, Fall 1939).
Virtually nothing is known about the background of this version of the character, but his personality as a newspaper editor was well defined. He was irascible, yelling at his reporters when angry or excited, but he was also a model of courage, loyalty, and integrity. When the superintendent of a labor camp claimed that reports about him in the Daily Star were libelous, Taylor would not apologize, saying that the information they had obtained was authoritative, and he dared the superintendent to sue. He also defended the reporter's pledge not to reveal the source of information.
Taylor at first refused to hire the inexperienced Clark Kent as a reporter but later changed his mind when Kent brought in the story of an attempted lynching. He shortly made it Kent's steady assignment to cover the reports about the existence of someone called Superman. However, when Lois Lane, the Star's "lonelyhearts" column writer, claimed the next day to have met Superman, Taylor didn't believe her, asking if she had actually seen pink elephants. This was indicative of the difference in Taylor's attitude toward Kent and Lane: he was very supportive of Clark, giving him a variety of assignments including South American war correspondent, but if Lois asked for an important story she was told by her editor that it was "no job for a girl!" To be fair, Kent received his share of abuse, as when Taylor called him a "brainless idiot" and fired him for flubbing an assignment. But the editor gave Clark his job back when he brought in the story, and he actually softened toward Lois over time. Taylor also admitted it when he was wrong, as he did when he accused Kent of betraying his confidential source for cowardly reasons.
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