Max Taylor

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Max Taylor
Occupation	Former Editor (Daily Planet)
Played By	Jim Thorburn
Status	Deceased
Appeared In	Delete

Max Taylor was Chloe's editor when she had a column at the Daily Planet her junior year in high school. When Chloe refused to provide Lionel Luthor with additional information, he had her column canceled, and she was fired. As Chloe packed up her desk, she asked him to look over some stories she wrote, but Max remarked that she must have enemies in high places to get blacklisted while still in high school, and he was unable to print anything she had written. However, he agreed to possibly publish Chloe's works under a pseudonym (Lois Lane). Chloe then realized that someone was targeting her due to her scathing article on Dr. Lawrence Garner and called Max to warn him. However, his assistant received a hypnotic email from Gardner's patient, Molly Griggs, and killed him by stabbing Max in the ear with a pencil.

When Chloe reads the obits, the audience discovers that Max's full name is George Maxwell Taylor. This could be a tribute to the Superman comics, as Perry White was not the original name for the paper's editor--George Taylor was.