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• Secret Origins by Dick Sprang (DevilishDM)

  Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Superman - All Media Types, Superman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Wonder Woman - All Media Types, Wonder Woman (Comics)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
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  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  03 Aug 2025

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  • Clark Kent/Lois Lane
  • Clark Kent & Lois Lane & James "Jimmy" Olsen
  • Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne
  • Alfred Pennyworth & Bruce Wayne
  • Jim Gordon & Bruce Wayne
  • Diana (Wonder Woman)/Steve Trevor
  • Clark Kent
  • Lois Lane
  • Perry White
  • James "Jimmy" Olsen
  • Lex Luthor
  • Samuel Blakely (OC)
  • Leonard Easley (OC)
  • Bruce Wayne
  • Dick Grayson
  • Alfred Pennyworth
  • Jim Gordon (DCU)
  • Omar Fayad (OC)
  • Diana (Wonder Woman)
  • Steve Trevor
  • Elias “Eli” Mehta (OC)
  • Slow Burn
  • Flirting
  • Golden Age (Comics)
  • Newspapers
  • News Media
  • 1950s
  • Alternate Universe - 1950s
  • newsroom politics
  • Politics
  • Daily Planet (DCU)
  • Urban Journalism
  • Journalism
  • Film Noir
  • Metropolis (DCU)
  • Pulp
  • Cold War
  • Espionage
  • Cigarettes
  • Banter
  • Deadline
  • Dialogue
  • Mild Language
  • Slow Build
  • Lois Lane Knows Clark Kent is Superman
  • Clark Kent is Superman
  • Superman References (DCU)
  • Shell Games
  • Gotham City (DCU) - Freeform
  • Wayne Manor
  • Bruce Wayne is Batman
  • Dick Grayson is Robin
  • Period-Typical Racism
  • Murder Mystery
  • Vintage Batman vibes
  • Batman References
  • Smoking
  • Conspiracy
  • Bruce Wayne is Good With Kids
  • Period-Typical Sexism
  • International Relations
  • Domestic
  • high society - Freeform
  • Assassination
  • Boravia (DCU)
  • Jarhanpur (DCU)

  Summary

  Metropolis, 1953. A disgraced bureaucrat is hauled into court, a defense contractor’s name keeps showing up in all the wrong places, and Clark Kent is already late filing copy. Between deadline sprints and backroom whispers, Clark, Lois, and Jimmy start tugging on a thread that just might unravel into something far bigger: something with ties to foreign oil, shadow money, and a familiar bald name buried in the fine print.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Secret Origins

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  10,931

  Chapters:

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