Tempus mails Lois Lane a set of photos exposing Clark Kent as Superman.
These arrive Prior to Lois meeting Clark. In fact he messed up and sent them to an AltWorld Lois Lane.
She thinks them odd and a few months later goes missing in Africa.
AltClark arrives in Metropolis, gets a job at the Daily Planet and meets Lex Luthor. Lana died in the car wreck with his parents and her mother when they were ten years old. Clark ends up being raised by Prof. Lang.
At White Orchid Ball he addressed Luthor in another Chinese.
Luthor replies in Chinese and Clark offers him a gift, a slim leather volume, it bears the imprint of the "The London School of Economics, Oxford University Press" and it is a translation, from the Greek, of a manuscript recently recovered by a dig led by a Professor Lang in Egypt.
It is a commentary on Sun Tzu's Art of War written in Greek by "Alexandros III Philippou Makedonon" otherwise known as Alexander the Great. The translators are listed as Professor [insert first name]Lang and "Clark Kent".
Luthor expresses his delight and saying he did not know a translation was already available. Only after a discussion of the commentary does Luthor find out Clark's name.
Luthor as we know speaks several languages, so does Clark. Luthor is well read, so is Clark.
The conversation takes off and the two test each other on dozens of topics in several languages. Luthor promises Clark an interview the next day.
Lois returns from the Congo, alive with a killer story, and hundreds of links. Her story takes down much of Intergang and also many of Lex Luthor's people outside of Metropolis. She is back and something she says sparks the creation of Superman.
Seeing Superman for the first time she recalls the photos from years ago.
