TV Guide has the first official look at Smallville's Chloe Sullivan from her long-delayed DC Universe debut in Action Comics #893, which goes on sale on Sept. 29.

The popular supporting character, played by actress Allison Mack, was created specifically for the television series, and introduced in the 2001 pilot. She was set to be integrated into DC's comic-book continuity in 2008 but those plans fell apart. However, the publisher at last announced in July at Comic-Con International that Chloe will have a recurring role in the Jimmy Olsen co-feature by Nick Spencer and R.B. Silva that kicks off with this month's Action Comics.

Spencer, who's best known for his Image Comics series Existence 3.0 and Morning Glories, tells TV Guide he had to make some changes to the character's history to enable her to fit into the established DC timeline.

"It's a pretty different continuity, which I think has always been the challenging part of bringing Chloe into the DC Comics Universe," he says. "She's never existed in the comics before, so in order to make a part of Clark's life when he was a teenager in Smallville, you'd have to do it somewhat retroactively, and it would age Chloe as a character a lot, since Superman is well past that part of his life in the books."