Pete Ross

The first segment is Sam Jones III, Superman's Pal by Rob Alsetter.

TV's Pete Ross on being an outcast, marrying Lana Lang, and wearing a cape.

So let's talk out to you about this interview with Sam Jones III, Amanda.

It wasn't really one major thing that stuck out to me, but just how genuine it seemed or how genuine Sam seemed in answering the questions and hearing him talk now at the conventions and talk about Smallville more on social media in general.

I'm thinking of all these great Chloe and Pete scenes, and there's Lana's nowhere to be seen, right? Because she asks Pete in the elevator, like, hey, what's this big secret you're hiding all the time? He looks all around, and Clark comes in and opens the elevator with his hand, and then he just kisses Chloe.

It's a great scene.

Yeah, this Lana Lang on Smallville did not end up with this Pete Ross on Smallville.

That's just not how their trajectories went.

And the Legion of Superheroes, who were a group of superpowered teens from the future, almost like a superhero club, they began making irregular appearances in issue 247 in 1958.

The one mainstay of Superboy's world who has not yet shown up at the point of this story's publication is Pete Ross.

The question of Superboy's connection to the Superman mythos, that was kind of an interesting conundrum for me when I was reading through these years of the franchise.

Because Superboy had the cheery, friendly, kind of stout parents, Ma and Pa Kent, in his life.

I do want to say, before we fully dive into future shock, that there's an issue that preceded it by a couple of months that we really haven't had an opportunity to specifically talk about just based on when our podcast coverage has fallen.

But Pete Ross gets the spotlight in one of these issues leading up to the arc that we're here to talk about.

And Just like in pre-crisis continuity, Clark and Pete go camping and Clark has to sneak off and change into Superboy.

And Pete sees this and learns the secret and wrestles with the fact that Clark didn't tell him, but ultimately decides, as he did historically, to be the silent protector of the secret and help out his buddy.

justice for pete ross at least in the past and we we hope for the best for pete in the present and the future but man i was so happy and obviously we knew we were building towards that they had been talking about going camping in a in a preceding issue and i'm

like well when these guys go camping you know what happens

and it happened oh i was

delighted now is pete ross Inform me, is Pete Ross present in our current timeline?

missing is the Kent and Chloe, really, of the big elements here.

Sorry for my Pete Ross erasure, but just plot-wise, he doesn't really have much

to do with the stories ever, does he?

No, absolutely.

And Lee, you talked about in our breakdown videos, there were humans who did not realize they were manhunters.

Pete Ross was one of them who were placed close to Lana Lang too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Was he a human who was mind controlled by the Manhunters? Or was he an artificial being who replaced the human?

He, in that run, he was one of the artificial beings that replaced the human.

But Pete Ross and Lana Langs were one of the, they were both, you know, it was DC in the 80s.

Well, if you are

Yeah, actually, this is Sam Jones III.

I played Pete Ross on the show Smallville.

And your listeners are always holding on to.

Always hold on to Smallville.

Okay, edit this part out.

Hey, it's your boy, Sam Jones III, and you're listening to Always Hold On to Smallville.

So what character did I play? I played Pete Ross, and I'm here with my boy, Zach, right now.

I'm