SA Superman Analysis Thread

Often people talk of SA Superman, as if they really know a lot about the character, without having read the comics. I haven't seen any comprehensive guides about this version of Superman, going through every comic, establishing a consistency for his feats (i.e. an average) and taking a look at what he can really do. So, I've taken it upon myself to read every single Silver Age Superman comic there is, making notes as I go along. Hopefully at the end of this I can make a proper analysis of the character, gauging what was most common for him, as well as the upper limits of his strength and how often he needed to go there. I'm currently working on a couple other respect threads, so my time will be divided, but I intend on providing updates nearly every day.

Index

Action Comics

• Issue #273

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane

• Issue #1
• Issue #2
• Issue #3
• Issue #4
• Issue #5
• Issue #6
• Issue #7
• Issue #8
• Issue #9
• Issue #10
• Issue #11
• Issue #12
• Issue #13
• Issue #14
• Issue #15
• Issue #16
• Issue #17
• Issue #18
• Issue #19
• Issue #20
• Issue #21
• Issue #22
• Issue #23
• Issue #24
• Issue #25
• Issue #26
• Issue #27
• Issue #28
• Issue #29
• Issue #30
• Issue #31
• Issue #32
• Issue #33
• Annual #1
• Issue #34
• Issue #35
• Issue #36
• Issue #37
• Issue #38
• Issue #39
• Issue #40
• Issue #41
• Annual #2
• Issue#42
• Issue #43
• Issue #44
• Issue #45
• Issue #46
• Issue #47
• Issue #48
• Issue #49
• Issue #50
• Preliminary Analysis
• Issue #51
• 80-Page Giant #3 (Technically another magazine serial)
• Issue #52

Superman

• Superman Annual #10

Special (Bronze Age)

• Issue #552
• Issue #553
• Issue #554

DC Comics Presents (Bronze Age)

• Issue #29

Superboy (Bronze Age)

• Issue #228

Christopher Reeve Respect Thread

Anyway, the first comic serial I've decided to start with is Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane, purely because I own every issue. I think this sort of thread would work best if everyone were to focus the discussion on the current issue posted (e.g., I just finished reading Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #1, so below you'll find the cover, a brief synopsis of the plot and my notes).

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane

Story #1: "The Bombshell of the Boulevards"

The first thing that strikes me about this comic is the redundantly long descriptions and superfluous amounts of text. Yeah, we're definitely in the Silver Age, and I love it. So the plot's pretty simple, there's a foreign ambassador in Metropolis and Lois wants an interview with the guy. Problem is, everyone and their mother wants a piece of him. So, there's this actress, Lois La Flamme, and she's invited to a reception where the ambassador's gonna be. Thing is, she has no intention of attending the party. Lois, overhearing everything, decides to disguise herself and become La Flamme, in order to get that exclusive interview. Unfortunately, Superman recognizes her and decides to teach her a lesson, staging a fake murder to show her why it's wrong to impersonate people.

Notes:

• Clark didn't immediately see through Lois's disguise, but had a hunch something was off.
• Superman melted a sword with his X-ray Vision and drank it.
• Superman jumped off a tall building and immediately changed his costume after falling passed Lois.
• Lois smashed a hammer over Superman's head.
• Bullets naturally reflected off Superman's clothing.

Story #2: "Lois Lane - Super-Chef"

Lois overhears a columnist--for the lovelorn at the Daily Planet--telling a woman the key to a man's heart is through his stomach. Being that she wants to marry Superman, she takes a leave of absence from reporting to become a chef. Things do not pan out in her favor.

Notes:

• Superman stopped a bridge from falling by wielding the girders with his X-ray Vision.
• Superman hears a subway track crack from a diner and uses his X-ray Vision to fix it, without bothering to get up.
• Superman made 25 stacks of pancakes in a short period of time. (One second?)
• Superman used his Telescopic Vision to see a falling icicle across the city, heated up a plate with his Super-Friction--which melted the ice cream nearby, twice--and sent it flying fast enough to meet the icicle before it hit anyone.
• Superman flew to space and back in a short period of time to refreeze Lois's ice cream.
• Superman ate... a salt shaker to remove his finger prints.
• Superman quickly ate Lois's soup and left a message with the letters.

Story #3: "The Witch of Metropolis"

Lois breaks a compact mirror in front of a painting of Mad Molly, "cursing her" to turn into a witch every night for seven years. Totally had nothing to do with an equally magical youth serum going bad.

Notes:

• Witch Lois thought she used magic to redirect a bullet, but it was really Superman's breath.
• Lois the hag enchanted a broom to fly for her, forced a wall to open and close, made a ship's engines die for an hour and used her magic to create kryptonite. No, not really, it was Superman behind it all.
• Send no money, don't worry, they trust us.

Interesting props for putting up a clear analysis on sa supes not a lot of folks get to know him too often.

Hopefully this eventually picks up.

Story #1: "Superman's Secret Sweetheart"

Lois Lane takes a trip back to her home town, visiting her old college. In doing so, she meets a woman named Polly that wants to join a sorority. The only problem is, the rules require the girls to have dated someone "glamorous". So the snobs walk in on 'em and Lois gets offended, prompting her to blurt out that Superman is Polly's steady. From there on out Superman and Lois stage a fake romance to help the girl out.

Notes:

• Superman was Lois's private taxi service.
• Superman had super-chores, whatever those are.
• Superman twisted a golf club into a heart to prove his faux love.
• Superman eavesdrops on some snobs from another room.
• Superman has... complete dominion over clouds?
• I bet you didn't know Superman was an artist, now did you?
• Superman builds a satellite and sends it into orbit.
• Superman burrowed deep underground, located a gold streak and weaved it into a dress.
• Superman submerged himself 30,000 fathoms to go treasure hunting.
• Superman used his X-ray Vision to burn the dialogue off a record player and used his ventriloquism to fake the record's contents.

Story #2: "Lois Lane in Hollywood"

Superman agrees to play his own role in a movie because half the proceeds will go to charity. The Daily Planet's staff gets screened for whether or not they're capable of playing themselves in the film. Of course poor Lois ends up heartbroken, as the director finds her unqualified to play herself. Taking pity on his secretly beloved, Superman frames Lois into ruining the movie... for her own good.

Notes:

• I hate this woman.
• Surprise, a bullet ricocheted off Superman.
• The Man of Steel ripped the Lion of Steel in half.
• Superman hurt Lois's feelings.
• Superman used his Super-Speed to develop "special" films.
• Okay, I don't really hate her, she fooled me.
• But hey, Superman fools everyone.

Story #3: "Superman's Forbidden Room"

This story's described as nigh incredible on the first page. Can't say I was expecting that sort of description. Basically, the elevator operator at the Daily Planet attempts to fool Lois into thinking he's Superman in order to remove evidence of his boss smuggling illicit materials over the border (not Perry White). Superman himself only appears in two panels.

Notes:

• Dan Jones is a sexist scumbag that tried to prey on Lois's weakness, only for the girl reporter to outwit him.
• Superman can apparently hear ants moving from 100 miles away.

Thanks. It's a lot of material to sift through, but I enjoy it.

He's OP as hell from what I hear.

@cruelestashley: This is a huge undertaking, you'll go down as a comic vine legend if you go through and finish it.

I really enjoy these old comics, so I intend on going through all of them, and eventually moving onto Silver Age Flash.

Do Silver Age Green Lantern after that, if you still have energy.

Maybe, but at this point we're talking years in the future.

I can wait lol.

@micah007123: Come to think of it, SA Hal Jordan really does need a good analysis, seeing that he has an enormous amount of low-end feats, but also a good number of high-end ones as well. Maybe he should take priority over the Flash.

@cruelestashley: I've only seen one feat for him that I can remember (since usually the only Silver Age character around here that gets the spotlight is Big Blue), he was holding all of Earths continents and trying to keep them in line, or something along those lines. Apparently that was low-end.

@micah007123: There's just a lot of things that go wrong for Hal, so much that even Superman's blasted for not having his life together. Just look at the guy:

@cruelestashley: Earths premier space cop everyone "claps" lol

Story #1: "The Rainbow Superman"

Superman embodies ga- I mean, smashes a meteor on its way to Earth, which sensitizes his skin to certain colors in the presence of said meteor shards. Unbeknownst to him at the time, Superman fixed Lois's locket mirror with a fragment. As a result, each time she opens it, Superman glows rainbows. Not a big deal right? Wrong. Everyone knows about Superman's new rainbow condition, which makes for problems when he continues to glow as Clark Kent.

Notes:

• Superman made a human yo-yo.
• Superman spied a meteor heading to Earth with his Telescopic Vision.
• Superman smashed a meteor that would've harmedEarth.
• Superman used his X-ray Vision to fix Lois's mirror.
• Superman for some reason thought he would be unaffected by his photosensitivity as Clark Kent.
• Clark saw Lois from across the city with his Telescopic Vision.
• The waiter at the Superman Supper Club pulls off the character perfectly.
• Clark rotated a statue with his Super-Breath, demonstrating precision and control.
• Clark nabbed an ice cube out of a glass, reshaped the cube with Super-Pressure at Super-Speed and presented it to Lois before she could open her locket.
• Clark froze Lois's locket shut with his Super-Breath, without her noticing.
• Clark's X-ray Vision made phosphorescent dust glow.

Story #2: "The Man Who Was Clark Kent's Double"

Lois meets a guy that looks just like Clark, whom she also assumes has a secret identity. The thing that gets me about this one is how Mark breaks up with her. Lois knew something was wrong, that he was lying. So, she checks the guy's pocket and finds a mask. He goes ballistic and off about how he can't marry a woman that won't trust him, stating she destroyed his love for him. Basically, he got caught lying, and the fact she didn't trust him, because of said lying, sent him off the deep end.

Notes:

• Clark wanted Lois to marry someone else.
• Superman really wanted Lois to marry someone else.
• Clark got jealous despite pushing Lois and Mark together.
• Superman counted the petals of a flower at Super-Speed and burned one to a crisp, invisibly, with his X-ray Vision.
• Superman looked through a wall with his X-ray Vision.
• Superman melted a car, dove into the molten metal and created a suit of armor, all before Mark could fire his arrow.

Story #3: "Lois Lane and the Babe of Steel"

Superman goes into the past to erase evidence that would reveal his secret identity, inadvertently swapping places with Superbaby. Scheming, Lois attempts to butter Superbaby up and use his powers for her own selfish benefit. As usual, everything goes wrong.

Notes:

• Clark located his adoption records with his X-ray Vision.
• Superman went into the past, breaking the barriers of time and space, swapping places with Superbaby.
• Superbaby lifted a locomotive.
• Rattle Snakes failed to harm Superbaby.
• Superbaby flew headfirst into machinery, emerging with no injury.
• Superbaby blew "Super-Bubbles" with his Super-Breath.
• Lois would make a terrible parent.
• Superman's costume is made of indestructible material.
• Clark Kent is a baby.

The people love him.

Okay, cool topic. And this thread will get a follow from me.

@cruelestashley: lol

Story #1: "The Super-Courtship of Lois Lane"

Jimmy Olsen finds it to be within everyone's best interest to get Lois off Superman's back, by using some suggestive techniques to ship her and Clark together. Only, Jimmy doesn't know Clark's really Superman, resulting in a "super-courtship" that Lois surmises to be an April fools' joke.

Notes:

• Superman heard Jimmy's watch due to the ultrasonic frequency.
• Jimmy Olsen demonstrated how to splice audio back in the 50s.
• Jimmy broke into Clark's apartment.
• Superman's voice is more suggestive than others.
• Superman baked a giant cookie for Lois among other things.
• Superman dove off a tree and created a splash large enough to put out a fire on a ship.
• Superman spotted lightning about to strike with his Telescopic Vision, flew up to it, outraced and redirected it.
• Jimmy Olsen created a... perfect replica of Clark's head?

Story #2: "Lois Lane, Working Girl"

A theatrical agent approaches Lois, enamored by her looks, to give her a role in an upcoming play. Problem is, the part involves being a "working girl", something she has no experience with. Lo and behold, Lois Lane takes up a job at a pretzel factory for two weeks, avoiding disaster after disaster.

Notes:

• Superman bent a steel girder and engraved a message to Lois with his X-ray Vision.
• Clark ate concrete pretzels... as the foreman admitted his crime out loud.
• Superman blew wet concrete around like dust.
• Superman twisted a steel girder into a pretzel.

Story #3: Annie Oakley Gets Her (Super)Man

Lois and Clark, kinda like Lewis and Clark, visit a frontier style resort to write a feature. Lois of course, totally predictably, ends up with amnesia and convinces herself that she's Annie Oakley. Needless to say, Lois Lane is the last person that should be given a gun.

Notes:

• Superman changed from Clark Kent to save Lois before she fell into the gorge.
• Superman used his X-ray Vision to examine Lois's injuries and changed back into Clark in a split-second.
• Superman deflected bullets Lois fired, moving fast enough so that he appeared invisible.
• Clark's aim with a gun was perfect.
• Clark lassoed a bald eagle.
• Clark tamed a wild horse and created an updraft strong enough to lift Lois and her horse.
• Clark saw the reflection of "the hoods" behind him through Lois's gun, but didn't hear them mumbling earlier.
• Clark aimed his bullets to collide directly with Lois's.

he is pretty op, but his opness inspired even more op versions of green lantern and the flash

This thread is amazing. Keep up the great work!

Story #1: "Superman's Greatest Sacrifice"

Lois meets her doppelganger, the richest woman in the world, Dolores Drake. Dolores poses as Lois in order to Superman, however, as it turns out, it's just her butler impersonating him. There's really not much of a denouement here. The story ends with Superman and Lois reconciling briefly, but Dolores drops off the face of the planet. I can imagine the sort of dry writing that would fill the void anyway, "Oh! Boo-hoo! I can't believe this happened to me! Why did this have to happen to me?"

Notes:

• Lois talked in the third person for some reason.
• Superman bent a giant steel girder.
• Superman juggled several dozen bricks at once.
• He's got a good 11 or so years left.
• Superman views moles as imperfections.

Story #2: "The Girl of 100 Costumes"

Superman decides to reward Lois for donating her contest winnings to charity, but unlike a sensible person, she attempts to sway him with glamour before telling him what she would like him to do for her.

Notes:

• Superman used his X-ray Vision to see through a locked filing cabinet and type up a column.
• Superman lifted an island temple.
• Superman moved fast enough to ignite wood and become a living flaming pinwheel.
• Superman ripped a telephone pole out of the ground, created a noose with the wires and aimed/timed it perfectly so that it'd land and lasso a bull.

Letters to Lois:

• I too sometimes sympathize with Lois, but probably not in the same way this mother did.
• I'm surprised to see this anti-tobacco message here.

Story #3: "The Fattest Girl in Metropolis"

Lois witnesses a murder, so Superman arranges to have her gain a hundred pounds, unbeknownst to her, so the killer doesn't recognize her.

Notes:

• Funny how even back in the 50s people knew how unhealthy soda is.
• I know these title pages don't reflect in the comic, but I can't tell if Superman's being obnoxious or really struggling to lift her...
• Goodness. Someone's only being murdered.
• Is it really necessary to constantly emphasize Lois is a girl?
• The original GameCube.
• Superman flies a car across the city with one hand... but needs to carry Lois separately?
• Rude.
• Savage.
• Brutal.
• Social commentary?
• Fatality.
• Superman melted bullets being fired with his X-ray Vision.
• Superman engineered a growth ray to work on humans.

Awesome thread! It deserves more appreciation.

Great thread.

Thanks everyone. I've been recovering the past few days, so it's been difficult to provide updates.

Story #1: "The Amazing Superman Junior"

Lois sneaks aboard a rocket that travels into space at faster than light speeds, but loses consciousness due to the shock of the rocket taking off, whereby she's saved by Superman; who in turn attempts to teach her a lesson by making it seem as though everyone aside from her has aged. However, she notices the fuel gauge never was touched, and decides to get back at Superman with a hoax of her own.

Notes:

• Superman used his X-ray Vision to spot Lois inside a rocket heading into space--which can reach speeds faster than light--and returned the rocket to its launchpad.
• Superman lifted a large ship from the depths of the ocean.
• Superman built a city before Lois woke up .
• Superman carried a rocket to an island and used his Super-Breath to slow its decent.
• Lois cared about Batman for some reason?
• Bald Robin.
• Superman with a hearing aid.
• The powers of SA Superman are a drink away.
• :|

Story #2: "Lois Lane--Convict!"

Superman, the district attorney and Lois come up with a plan to put some fake license plate mobsters behind bars. The plan involved Lois going to prison... and the guards or correctional officers didn't seem to be in on it. More over, the $25,000 bail the Daily Planet raised was utterly pointless, since they knew she was "guilty". I suppose the writers would use some excuse like, "Well, they gave it all to charity!" but, I can't help but imagine many angry donators showing up after reading the evening paper.

Notes:

• Superman turned stone into mirror.
• Superman juggled vehicles.
• This knocked Superman off-balance?
• A ton-heavy stamper shattered trying to crush Superman.

Letters to Lois:

• This comic had a pretty womanly audience, naturally.

Story #3: "Lieutenant Lois Lane, U.S. Army!"

Lois Lane and Clark Kent are sent off to join the U.S. Army to write a feature story on army life. Noticing something off, Lois acts the role of a tyrant to expose a spy. I'm not sure how Lois knew there was any evidence in the locker... or really how being rude and angry all the time gave her credence for anything. I suppose the fear she inspired just made people too afraid to question her.

Notes:

• :|
• Superman created a tornado.
• Superman controlled the tornado's path.
• Superman controlled the weather.
• Superman found a giant paint brush and painted a ballroom.

Story #1: "Lois Lane's Kiss of Death"

Lois Lane is assigned to write a story debunking superstitions, so she goes to a museum and tries on Queen Isis's crown, which is said to curse all wearers by killing those they kiss. As a result of her story, local screwballs decide to take advantage of the legend after a coincidental death of a dog, framing Lois as an inadvertent murderer.

Notes:

• Only kryptonite can kill Superman.
• ...
• Uh...
• Applying makeup is like painting a picture.
• They kissed... well not really.
• I agree, although it's ironic considering DC has Judo-Christian roots.
• Noel Neill, TV's Lois Lane, often read these comics in her spare time

Story #2: "When Lois Lane Forgot Superman"

Lois realizes her love for Superman isn't practical, so she has a hypnotist "erase" her memory.

Notes:

• Superman deflected a boulder.
• Superman ripped off the head of a mountain and flew it elsewhere.
• I think a lot of people here feel the same way.
• Why doesn't Clark like poor Lois? :(
• Clark used his Microscopic Vision to find a key and create a replica from a coin.

Letters to Lois:

• Uhuh.
• I'm anxious to read Superman's serial now.

Story #3: "The Girl Who Stole Superman"

Land Lang, broken down and jobless, is taken in by Lois Lane. To repay her kindness, Lana decides to drive a stake between her and Superman--at his request of course; to save Lois's life.

Notes:

• Bullets, of course, reflected off Superboy.
• How unusual.
• Rekt.

Story #1: "The Superwoman of Metropolis"

Superman gives Lois superpowers, putting her through the wringer as Clark to show her how Superman feels when she tries to figure out/expose his secret identity.

Notes:

• Clark changed into Superman and stopped a jet airliner from crashing in seconds.
• Superman transferred his powers to Lois.
• Clark and Lois used their X-ray Visions simultaneously.
• Lois generated a small lightning bolt by clapping her hands.
• Lois burrowed into the ground, tossed up a steel vault, outraced Clark to a container that fell out and threw it hard enough to bury it deep in the Earth.
• Lois and Superman have indestructible hair.
• Lois's hair breaks steel scissors.
• Lois caught and ate a bullet.
• Lois ripped a sealed car door off its hinges.
• Lois spotted frayed cables with her Telescopic Vision while driving by in a cab.
• Well, okay.

Story #2: "The Ugly Superman"

Perry White assigns Lois Lane to write a story on why so many women are attending wrestling matches. Upon writing a feature on a numskull Superman impersonator, she finds herself courted by said numskull, to the point that Superman himself has to intervene.

Notes:

• This comic sure is a product of its time.
• Ha.
• Haha.
• Clark's quicker than the human eye.
• Superman sure is biblical.
• Superman ate part of a horseshoe.
• Superman lifted two-tons with his pinky.
• A mere girl...
• A 300lbs weight shattered upon making contact with Superman.
• When will people realize throwing metal objects at Superman is useless?
• Superman repaired a wall he broke in no time at all.

Letters to Lois:

• Super-boner.

Story #3: "Queen for a Day"

Lois and Clark end up stranded on an island full of Amazons, who in turn believe Lois to be their queen for pulling a "magic" sword from its stone scabbard.

Notes:

• Superman restrained a whale.
• Superman was unfazed by an erupting volcano.
• Superman used his Super-Ventriloquism to make a sword have a voice.
• Superman punched out a side of a volcano.
• Superman snapped a sword enough for it to vibrate for centuries.
• Superman spotted an aircraft carrier 150 miles away and blew a coconut to it.
• Superman intercepted a lightning bolt and ricocheted it off his chest.

I'm not sure if I prefer this formatting to what I've had going for the previous issues. Thoughts?

Story #1: "The Most Hated Girl in Metropolis"

The Daily Planet staff trick Lois into thinking they're livid at her for printing a story exposing Superman's secret identity. Everyone's tamely vicious in this one, barring Lois.

Notes:

• Superman excavated a large section of land in seconds.
• Superman was able to find a missing person in seconds with his Telescopic Vision.
• Superman cured a case of amnesia.

Story #2: "Lois Lane's Stone-Age Suitor"

Lois and Clark crash-land in a prehistoric tribe, where Lois finds she must marry a neanderthal or die. Clark of course, because his super-feelings get hurt, decides to escalate the process to teach Lois a lesson.

Notes:

• Superman has Eggs-ray-Vision.
• Clark Kent streaked with the speed of light.
• Clark assaulted some saber-tooth tigers and blew down a few stalactites
• Superman streaked at the speed of lightning.
• Clark created a tunnel by punching a hole in a cave wall and compressed his costume to fit in his pocket.

Letters to Lois:

• I noticed it.
• :|

Story #3: "Superman's Mystery Song"

Pat Boone, fond of Lois's singing abilities, invites her as a guest on his TV show. Clark, pressured to write the lyrics for her song, accidentally leaves a clue that could reveal his secret identity, forcing him to interfere with the song's broadcast(s).

Notes:

• Maybe because Elvis was in the Army?
• Uh... what does Lois being a fan have to with her being a woman? There was a number of men in the previous panel.
• It's only now Lois needs to take vacation days to excuse her absences...?
• Cindy ain't got nothin' on Lois.
• Superman streaked instantaneously into a storm, absorbed billions of volts of electricity and stopped a TV broadcast.
• Superman tracked Pat Boone down every moment of his tour.
• Superman converted sand into a glass dome and placed it over Pat and Lois faster than they could perceive.
• Superman went through an elaborate process when he could've just clapped his hands.
• Why didn't Superman find it with his Telescopic Vision? How would kids distinguish it from any other envelop? I'm guessing he had a way for them to get a hold of him fast, but wouldn't fans needlessly tie it up?
• Superman analyzed the grooves on a vinyl record and etched them onto a new one.
• Superman stamped out one million records in a short period of time.
• False advertising.

So far, one thing that's been really consistent is Superman's ability to travel around the speed of light.

Story #1: "The Cry-Baby of Metropolis"

Lois, noticing wrinkles on her skin, decides to "trifle" with a youth ray, causing her to age backwards. Superman in turn fabricates a story about the antidote in order to teach her a lesson, which is a pretty common theme in this comic serial as you may've noticed by now.

Notes:

• Superman played four instruments at the same time.
• Superman used "super-mathematics".
• Superman ripped off a safe door.
• Superman cut metal with his thumb.
• Superman was too fast for Lois.
• Uh...

Story #2: "Lois Lane's Romeo"

Lois falls for a crook running a love racket in Italy. The word impetuous is frequently tossed around at her and I can see why.

Notes:

• Superman flew with bullet speed.
• Superman flew from Rome to Venice in a second (which is roughly 1,174,428 mph).
• Superman blew away rain clouds.
• Superman titled the Leaning Tower of Pisa, similar to what happened in Superman III.
• Flying to Switzerland, Superman could hear tremors.
• What's he talking about? He pushed them together...
• Superman defeated a lion... by doing nothing.
• Superman's an artist.

Letters to Lois:

• People here should take notes.
• Not very subtle with the sexism.

Story #3: "Lois Lane's Super-Séance"

Lois, unknowingly, is assisted by Superman to preform a seance with the goal to fool a gang of bank robbers.

Notes:

• Superman was a convincing ghost.
• Superman imitated a dead man's voice perfectly.
• Superman was too fast for human eyes.
• Is there anything he can't do?
• Damn.

Story #1: "The Leopard Girl of the Jungle"

Lois goes to Africa to write a feature on a doctor, but her plane ends up having engine trouble, so she parachutes off into the jungle where she ends up with amnesia. As a result, she leads a leopard pack and wanders the jungle.

• Superman moved faster than Lois could perceive, created a large chasm and had time to ponder while still remaining unseen.
• Superman boxed gorillas.
• Superman spoke underwater.
• Superman put out a jungle fire with his hands.
• Superman sucked up enough air in a vault so Lois and Jimmy would faint.

Story #2: "The Tricks of Lois Lane!"

Lois tries to prove Clark is Superman and fails, real standard stuff.

Notes:

• Clark's X-ray Vision activated a robot miles away.
• Clark spied on a volcano in India from Metropolis.
• Superman ripped off the peak of a mountain.
• Superman sealed a volcano.
• Superman cracked a safe.

Letters to Lois:

• Admittedly, the thought hadn't crossed my mind.
• DC really dropped the ball... but at least they owned up to it.

Story #3: "Lois Lane's Super-Perfume"

Some crooks attempt to swindle Lois into endorsing their phony perfume so they can scam millions of women. Superman, however, has other plans.

Notes:

• Superman followed a rocket traveling a 20,000,000 mile course.
• Superman is no typical man.
• Superman watched the events on Earth from deep space with his Telescopic Vision.

I'm under a bit of stress, so I'm going to take a bit of a break. Here's a few extra entries in the meantime.

Story #1: "The Mermaid from Metropolis!"

Lois goes skin-diving off the coast of Honolulu, where she ends up getting trapped under a bunch of debris and loses function of her legs and lungs. Out of the blue, Aquaman just happens to be passing by and takes her to a special doctor, who in turn, turns her into a mermaid.

Notes:

• I forgot how long it took Hawaii to become a state.
• Lois confirmed Superman flies faster than the speed of light.
• Superman casually lifted a sunken submarine and carried it to Pearl Harbor.
• Someone enlighten me, is SA Aquaman really this pathetic? Is this where the stereotypes hails from?
• Seriously. What's so special about Aquaman if Lois Lane can do his job?
• Superman blew out a volcano.
• Superman is the greatest doctor known to man.

Story #2: "The Girl Atlas!"

Professor Morris magically discovers the formula that gave Atlas his strength and Achilles his invulnerability, giving it to Lois to give to Superman... because he couldn't just give it to him himself.

Notes:

• Superman carried a ton of ore into a blast furnace.
• Lana was shot with an atomic bullet and remained unharmed.
• Lois x Lana anyone?

Letters to Lois:

• At least she tried.
• That's a lovely description.

Story #3: "Lois Lane Loves Clark Kent!"

Lois witnesses Clark fall out a window and take no fall damage. So she decides to court him, but he tricks her into thinking he's a degenerate so she doesn't marry anyone she blindly believes is Superman. What gets me is how Superman just blindly assumed Lois would attempt to court Clark, as opposed to calling him out. Although, based on the last panel, Clark's unease may imply that wasn't his plan from the beginning.

Notes:

• Clark fell 20 flights.
• Superman tanked a bomb, unlike Aquaman.
• Isn't Clark seen as a pathetic weakling? Yeah, even Superman commented on how weak he was the page prior. So, no matter how pathetic Clark is, he's still above all women? Somehow, I don't see him fairing well against Lana from the last story, at least if he wants to keep his identity.

Story #1: "Introducing... Lois Lane's Parents!"

Lois goes back to her hometown to visit her parents with Superman. Some ugly bird-looking woman mishears a conversation and gossips that the two are getting married, causing havoc for the pair.

Notes:

• Superman lifted a tractor.
• Superman needed scythes to cut a wheat field.
• Superman's hands were buzz saws.
• :|

Story #2: "Alias Lois Lane!"

Two losers mistake Lois Lane, hair dyed blonde, for another person, thereafter enlisting her to impersonate herself in hopes of exposing Superman to kryptonite.

Notes:

• Superman heard Lois's yells from far away.

Letters to Lois:

• Ha.
• Superman's math is still flawless.

Story #3: "The Shocking Secret of Lois Lane!"

Lois gets hypnotized and thinks she has the face of a cat. I prefer the boxhead, reminds me of Moltar.

Notes:

• Superman shattered a log.
• Superman doesn't know the first thing about women.
• Superman lifted a car.
• The original Nelson.
• Superman examined residue with his Microscopic Vision.
• Yes you can.
• Superman threw two drill-saws at Lois.
• Superman snapping his fingers was as loud as gun-shots.

Story #1: "Three Nights in the Fortress of Solitude!"

Superman invites Lois over to his Fortress of Solitude, only for her to devise a plan to keep her there long enough to demonstrate it as a safe home for her to live as his wife.

Notes:

• Superman lifted a giant key to unlock his fortress.
• Why does Superman have a pet that hates yellow, when his costume seldom ever changes?
• Superman has a disintegration beam in his fortress?
• Really? I'm dead.
• I'm already six feet under.
• Superman lifted a glacier.
• Superman's speed was too quick for Lois.

Story #2: "Lois Lane's Soldier Sweetheart!"

Lois leads the media on in order to convince a soldier's father he can act.

Notes:

• Savage.
• Clark was a professional car wash.
• Rekt.

Letters to Lois:

• The demand was real.
• I believe him.
• Lois x Lana 2.
• I know right.

Story #3: "Lois Lane's Secret Romance!"

Supergirl, wanting to be adopted, attempts to push Lois and Superman together.

Notes:

• Supergirl used her Telescopic Vision to spy on Lois from her orphanage.
• Supergirl spotted Clark approaching with her X-ray Vision.
• Supergirl setup and removed billboards faster than Clark noticed.
• Supergirl remade dinner and tampered with the boat's wiring before Superman and Lois entered the room.
• Superman's breath intake pulled an automobile off train tracks.
• Supergirl's breath blew away clouds.
• Supergirl copied Batman's handwriting perfectly and Superman was a human lie-detector.
• Superman used his Microscopic Vision to view Supergirl's fingerprints.

The Super-Family of Steel!

A Kandorian, Van-Zee, escapes from the bottled city and gains the same powers as every other Kryptonian. In doing so, he seeks out Lois Lane, who rejects him, so he goes after her double--Sylvia. The two get married and have some kids while the reader is led to believe the two are Superman and Lois.

"Part One: Super-Husband and Wife"

Notes:

• Van-Zee lifted the end of a boat in less than a second, while disturbing the passengers.
• Van-Zee found a hidden pyramid and burrowed underground to rob it.
• Van-Zeeis a master weaver.
• Van-Zee found the Garden of Eden...?
• Van-Zee created a vacuum to fly in.

"Part Two: The Bride Gets Super-Powers"

Notes:

• Van-Zee flew from the Earth to Space in less than a second, so fast that Sylvia didn't need air.
• Van-Zee carved his and Sylvia's face into two moons.
• Van-Zee built a machine that shows any "scene" on Earth from the somehow hospitable world of Venus.
• Van-Zee gave Sylvia a watch that emits a hyper-sonic signal he can hear from anywhere in the universe.
• Because bubbles are sooooo feminine.
• Van-Zee flew from Earth to Venus in "hardly a second".
• Ray guns did not affect Van-Zee.
• Van-Zee threw a spaceship to another star system.
• Van-Zee analyzed chemical compounds with his Microscopic Vision.

• Van-Zee telepathically communicated with Urthians.

• Van-Zee made rattles fly in circles for hours.

• I told you Lois-Sylvia would make a bad parent.

• Sylvia used X-ray and Telescopic Vision.
• Sylvia was invulnerable.
• Silvia threw plates so fast they melted before they hit Van-Zee.
• Silvia had a bad temper.

"Part Three: The Secret of the Super Family"

Notes:

• Van-Zee smashed up a few satellites.
• Sylvia communicated telepathically.
• Superman also carved a memento into an asteroid.

Story #1: "Lois Lane's Signal Watch"

Superman gives Lois a signal watch, similar to Jimmy Olsen's, but operating on a different frequency. Impetuously, Lois considers the most minor of issues emergencies, much to Superman's dismay.

Notes:

• Superman bent a metal chair like taffy.
• Superman differentiated between ultrasonic frequencies.
• Superman planted telephone poles like plants.
• Superman frightened a harmless dog.
• Clark changed to Superman in a split-second.
• Bullets deflected off Superman's chest.
• Superman traveled faster than he had ever traveled before (so much faster than light), used his X-ray vision to detonate a bomb, raced to the bomb faster than electricity can travel and used his cape to smother the explosion.
• It's not women Clark, it's your lack of social knowledge.
• All those things are true about Lois, if only the person writing in addressed the actual issues of the time.
• According to the editor, Superman's aim is infallible.

Story #2: "The Mystery of Skull Island"

Clark and Lois are assigned to write a feature on an elusive actor, whereby Lois suspects him of murdering his wife.

Notes:

• Clark did hours worth of work in five seconds.
• Clark was moving faster than anyone could see.
• Superman used his X-ray Vision to read a diary in a safe.

Story #3: "The Kryptonite Girl"

Superman tricks Lois into thinking her eyes are emitting kryptonite rays.

Notes:

• Rude.

Story #1: "The Girl That Almost Married Clark Kent"

The richest girl in the world buys an amulet that allows her to read minds, subsequently reading Superman's, finding out his secret identity and courting him.

Notes:

• Superman threw a rope fast enough so that it remained rigid and suspended himself by exhaling.
• Superman's finger held up a girder.
• Clark's Microscopic Vision told the difference between a real and fake sword from a balcony.
• Superman's X-ray Vision burned off a sword from the hilt.
• Superman's super senses detected Lois's scent.
• Clark overinflated a tire.
• Clark hypnotized a woman to forget his secret identity and hate him.

Story #2: "Lana Lang, Superwoman!"

Superman gives Lana and Lois his super-powers through a blood transfusion in order to foil Brainiac's plans.

Notes:

• Superboy ripped a tree out of the ground.
• No needle on Earth could penetrate Superman's skin.
• He did before...
• Lana melted a lamp with her X-ray Vision.
• Lana lifted a broken down school-bus.
• Land built a playground and plowed fields.
• Lana played with lightning.
• Lana and Lois lifted an elephant and whale.
• Lana lifted a mountain and Lois lifted two.
• Lana and Lois survived an explosion.
• Not even Superman could penetrate Brainiac's force-screen.
• Brainiac mentally ordered Lois and Lana into a trap, despite their super-powers.
• Brainiac had a way to destroy the Earth.

Letters to Lois:

• The Editor didn't pull any punches.

Story #3: "How Lois Lane Got Her Job"

Lois recalls her first ever scoops and how Superman wasn't involved, even though he was.

Notes:

• Lightning did not harm Superman.
• Superman started a plane with his breath.
• Superman lifted a submarine.

Story #1: "The Star Reporter of Metropolis!"

An actress--playing Lois Lane in the upcoming Daily Planet film--disguises herself as Velma to gain experience as a reporter.

Notes:

• Well that's nice.
• ._.

Story #2: "The Sleeping Doom!"

Aliens invade Earth by taking control of people's bodies when they sleep, kind of like in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This story made me tired, for some reason.

Notes:

• Jimmy Olsen counted super-feats within Superman's capabilities.
• Superman learned an alien language with his "super-intelligence".
• Superman melted the space jewels, and only the space jewels, with his X-ray Vision by emitting it at a certain heat frequency.

Letters to Lois:

• At least they're honest.

Story #3: "Lois Lane Weds Astounding Man!"

Lois gets tricked into marrying a chemical robot.

Notes:

• Superman flew Lois to Earth from a distant solar system.

Story #1: "The Day Lois Lane Forgot Superman!"

Lois is hypnotized to forget Superman and falls in love with Clark... again.

Notes:

• Clark slipped on a banana peel.
• Clark knocked out a thug by brushing past him.
• Traditions are often trivial.
• Clark saw ferry boats about to crash with his Telescopic Vision.
• Superman saved some boats.
• Superman heard a bomb ticking and blew it half a mile out to sea.
• Superman read the name of a gun's manufactured and created fake bullet holes faster than Lois could see.

Story #2: "The Superman of the Past!"

Lois goes back in time, or dreams she does, and falls in love with Samson: The Superman of the Past.

Notes:

• Jimmy Olsen did a handstand.
• Samson uprooted two trees.
• Samson pulled a boat against a current.
• Samson chucked a boulder.
• Samson rammed through a dungeon door.
• Samson bent steel bars.
• Samson lifted a trunk filled with bronze ten men could not lift.

Letters to Lois:

• Straight to the point.

Story #3: "Mr. and Mrs. Clark (Superman) Kent!"

An imaginary story about what may or may not come true... Superman and Lois's marriage.

Notes:

• Can't have a married couple sleeping in the same bed, that'd be sinful.
• Clark ripped his clothes by flexing.
• Superman's Telescopic Vision spotted an oil field fire.
• Superman put out a fire with his hands.
• So important.
• Clark Kent is not a creep.
• Superman rapidly built a raft of trees for an island's denizens.
• Superman was too fast for everyone.
• I want that dress.
• Or... she could've said Superman gave it to Clark... .-.
• Superman couldn't dodge an impulsive woman's kiss, perhaps not so dissimilar to his marriage to Lois.
• Lois am become death.
• Well, maybe he could dodge her, but didn't want to...

This issue had some pretty good feats.

Story #1: "Superman's Flight from Lois Lane!"

Superman, tired of Lois, goes back in time to get a job away from her. Previously when Superman had gone through the time barrier, he was replaced by his younger self, but not this time for some reason.

Notes:

• Superman fell from a plane to the ground, uninjured.
• Superman broke through the time barrier with his speed.
• Clark read 500 record titles from the room over.
• Superman stopped an automobile from hitting Lois.
• Superman took a bath on the Sun's surface.
• Superman sped through the time barrier again.

Story #2: "The Luckiest Girl in Metropolis!"

Some hoods trick Lois into thinking she's hearing prophetic voices that warn her of impending deaths they, unbeknownst to her, set up--which in turn make the entire scheme pointless.

Notes:

• Superman's hands were faster than electrical impulses.
• Superman supported a train.

Letters to Lois:

• Rekt.

Story #3: "Lois Lane's Super-Daughter!"

The second in the imaginary series, Lois and Clark adopt Linda "Supergirl" Lee. It was a stupid story.

Notes:

• Ah bad parenting and sexism, staples of the 50s.
• Superman was a human vacuum cleaner.
• Supergirl did an hour of work in a couple seconds.
• Superman and Supergirl reignited a star with their X-ray Visions.
• Superman and Supergirl excavated an underground city in minutes.
• An unhappy ending.

Story #1: "The Lois Lane Doll (Part I) - The Dolls of Doom!"

The Anti-Superman Gang cons Lois into approving a doll line of herself, with the intention of blowing up Superman's Fortress of Solitude. Ignorantly, the gang ships Lois off to the fortress, where she shrinks herself into Kandor to survive.

Notes:

• I can see a Boomerang music video being based off this.
• Oh wow, a doll that sneezes, just what every kid wants.
• Sleeping pills are harmless, right.
• Superman saved a city's populous.

"The Lois Lane Doll (Part II) - The Dolls of Doom!"

Notes:

• Gee, who'da thunk it?
• How convenient.
• Superman lifted a plane in a hurricane.

Letters to Lois:

• Solid advice.
• :|
• Yuck.

Story #2: "The Battle Between Super-Lois and Super-Lana!"

Lois and Lana obtain super-powers from a magical lake, whereby they predictably use them to court Superman.

Notes:

• Lois lifted a car and Lana ripped a tree out of the ground.
• Superman shoved a plane.
• Lana baked a giant pizza with her X-ray Vision.
• Lois juiced a tree for syrup.
• Lois cooked a bunch of pancakes that Superman fed to hungry crewmen as he blew their ship across the ocean.
• Superman hates the color green.
• Lois and Lana carved their faces on mountainsides.
• Superman decided not to marry Lex Luthor.

I'm not sure how many people are following my updates, but I've been too busy to the past few days. I did a respect thread for Christopher Reeve here, who I think is relevant to this project being that he was based off SA Superman. Even if you wanna get technical and classify him as BA Superman, or a variant thereof, BA Superman is SA Superman, just weaker, so it doesn't really matter. After that, I took a detour and did a bit of an analysis on Final Crisis and Superman Beyond 3D, mainly about Darkseid and Thought Robot. The break was nice, but I'm behind and anxious to catch up to where I should be. So I think six, or maybe seven entries between today and tomorrow should suffice. Before that though, I'd like to clarify my methodology.

Edit: Been having some computer problems, unfortunate delays inevitable.

I've been tempted to deviate from the Lois Lane series here and there, but I feel it's pertinent to power through the issues before switching to another serial, like Superboy. Once I finish every issue for this comic, I'll post--in this thread--an analysis of Superman based on everything I've noted down from each issue. I'll give my thoughts on his consistency, performances/feats, personality and things alike. After I do that, I'll switch to Superboy comics and do the same thing for them. Once I finish pretty much every Silver Age serial pertaining to Superman in some way, I'll call it a wrap and do one mega analysis. Then, finally, I'll make a separate, ultimate respect thread with a link here; which by then will have an index of all the analyses. Speaking of which, I just edited my first post to contain an analysis for every issue I've posted about so far, for everyone's convenience. I think that's about it, I hope people are still interested in this--I'll update regardless.

Story #1: "The Day When Superman Proposed!"

Superman is affected by red kryptonite, causing him to fall in love with and propose to Lois Lane.

Notes:

• Kryptonite was the only substance capable of destroying Superman.
• Superman had a shrine of Lois Lane.
• Superman built a Lois Lane robot.
• Superman lifted a car.
• Lois's face.
• Superman broke the time barrier with sheer speed in something comparable to an instant.
• I wasn't aware Cleopatra had fair skin.
• Superman sped through the time barrier again.
• Superman went through the time barrier a third time.
• Superman traversed through the time barrier a fourth time.
• Superman saw inside his fortress from Lois's apartment, coming to the conclusion Red kryptonite made him fall in love with Lois.
• Take note my fellow denizens.

Story #2: "Lois Lane's X-Ray Vision!"

Lois's sunglasses gain X-ray vision through some barely explained plot device.

Notes:

• Superman stopped a runaway car with one hand.
• Bullets bounced off Superman.

Letters to Lois:

• I'm disappointed by the sexism, but I should really expect it given the time period.
• At least they got something right.

Story #3: "Sweetheart of Robin Hood!"

Lois went back in time, or dreamed it, and met Robin Hood.

Notes:

• Lois conflated owning someone with commitment.
• Clark was not amused.
• I'm skeptical.

Story #1: "The 10 Feats of Elastic Lass!"

Lois suspects a sculptor is behind recent bombings, so she convinces Jimmy to let her use some of his serum to become Elastic Lass and prove her hunch.

Notes:

• God forbid.
• A woman astronaut? How terrifying.
• I wonder when, or if ever, these comics will stop being so redundant.
• Supergirl used her "Infra-red" Vision to save Lois.

Story #2: "The Curse of Lena Thorul!"

Lois... as usual, takes things at face value and comes to the conclusion Luthor's sister is a witch.

Notes:

• Superman searched all of Metropolis, or at least a good chunk of it, and found Luthor's hideout in no time at all; thereafter using his Infra-red Vision to melt a ray gun that would had supposedly killed him.
• Luthor wore the same clothes in his flashback...
• Luthor wasn't such a bad guy; although his reasoning was nonsensical--how would they recognize Lena as an adult?
• Lex spoke in the third person for some reason.

Letters to Lois:

• The truth--leave Clark Kent alone.
• The horror.

Story #3: "The Wife of Superman!"

Lois is treated like garbage. The man that became the world's greatest doctor in a couple of minutes can't give her super-powers? Despite a significant blood transfusion working as an enduring temporary solution? Right.

Notes:

• Larry and Carole Kent everyone.
• Why are all kids in the Silver Age depicted as this stupid?
• A ray-gun did nothing to Superman.
• Superman hurled the mole men back into the Earth.
• What a liar.
• Superman-hunting female.
• Superman lifted Lana's car.
• Casual sexism.
• It doesn't get much more blatant.

Story #1: "The Super-Surprise!"

Some nobodies try to kill Superman and fail. Nothing really happens beyond some imaginative plot twist at the end.

Notes:

• Superman heard a distant radio signal and froze part of a forest with his breath.
• Only kryptonite could harm Superman.
• Bullets reflected off Sylvia and some other feats.
• Redundancy at its finest.
• I'm guessing comic prices were on the rise.
• The NSWA sure liked to run ads in comics.

Story #2: "The Perfect Husband!"

Lois goes on a TV show where a machine analyzes personality traits and picks out an ideal "mate". The guy she ends up with throws a hissy about her finding out he's bald, running away. I'm pretty sure she doesn't really love Superman as much as she thinks she does.

Notes:

• I'm sure.
• Because the way Superman looks has to do with his strength.
• Superman became a pontoon instantaneously from over 30 feet away.
• The wonders of seeing through walls and hearing distant conversations while underwater.
• Superman was too quick for human eyes.

Letters to Lois:

• Good.
• They're either perverted or delusional.
• I didn't realize Superman was a woman.
• Ha.
• I feel like the Editor never met a "typical woman". More over, didn't he justify Superman not revealing his identity to Lois because she would reveal it, rather inadvertently or not?

Story #3: "Lois Lane... Traitor!"

A duplicate of Bizzaro-Lois inadvertently frames the real Lois...

Notes:

• Barbaric customs like the death penalty?
• I'm surprised they got away with this... and this.
• Superman read a cable, changed outfits and traveled from Metropolis to an eastern country in five seconds.
• Uuuhhh...

Story #1: "Lois Lane and Superman, Newlyweds!"

Lois experiences a host of problems when she convinces Superman to announce their marriage to the world.

Notes:

• Superman lifted his key to his fortress.
• Superman and Lois met the president, John F. Kennedy, and his wife, Jacqueline.
• Superman dug a moat.
• At the cost of seeing through his home...
• Superman regarded Lois, his wife, as a kid...?
• Superman saw monsters flying off into outer space.

Story #2: "Lois Lane's Darkest Secret!"

Lois attempts to foil a blackmailing ring, only for everything to go wrong and Superman to preemptively intervene.

Notes:

Right...

Letters to Lois:

• I'm surprised I didn't notice that.
• I like how they listened to the fans and incorporated their fictions.
• Unless their department was rigged, but I doubt it.
• Yes please.

Story #3: "The Three Lives of Lois Lane!"

Lois goes to Africa to cover a minor uprising, implied to have been started by her, even though she couldn't had. In the midst of it all, she somehow loses her memory, believing herself to be famous people of the past. The story isn't concise about Lois's motivations until the end and often comes off as disingenuous, which I think is inadvertent given Superman's context clues.

Notes:

• Superman flew from Metropolis to Africa in moments.
• Flaming arrows did nothing to the white god.
• If looks could kill.
• Superman turned on his Telescopic Vision like a light switch.
• Superman caught Lois in flashes from nearby.
• Superman made a massive flag in a short period of time.
• Was he crying inside...?
• Superman flew around the world and then went back in time.
• Superman was uninjured by cavemen and beat up a dinosaur.
• Superman broke through the time barrier again and lifted his fortress's key with one hand.

I reformatted earlier entries and created separate sections for the Letters to Lois column.

Story #1: "The Day Superman Married Lana Lang!"

Superman, in an imaginary story, marries Lana Lang. Unlike Lois, she receives super-powers, which prove to be a burden as every other criminal ends up with pieces of kryptonite, prompting her to save her husband several times. As a result, she feels pity for him, which for some reason she cannot allow, so she runs away to another galaxy. An otherwise good story ruined by cultural norms of the time.

Notes:

• Superman carried a statue from another world to Earth.
• That smug look.
• Do robots dream of electric sheep?
• Superman gave Lana permanent super-powers.
• Death to Lois.
• Superman flew to the Alpha Centauri system and back.
• Lana was unaffected by kryptonite.
• Everyone had kryptonite.
• Red kryptonite turned Superman into a villain, throwing large animals; although I think the hunters are just as much the villains.
• Lana tackled Superman and wrestled him, causing something similar to undersea earthquakes.
• Lana threw Superman into outer space and hurled meteors at him.
• Lana was mightier than Superman, so she left him... because she can't be his hero, but she can be his?

Story #2: "Lois Lane's Childhood"

Kal-El saves Lois, from light-years away... as a toddler.

Notes:

• Killer-diller, chiller, thriller.
• A world ruled by giant insects...
• The marvels of Krypton.
• This should be the poster page for Silver Age stories.
• Me this, me that.

Letters to Lois:

• All I see is a lack of creativity.
• Bizarro Mxy?
• Because hitting her, like a child no less, would accomplish anything.

Story #3: "The Mad Woman of Metropolis"

Some gangland thugs attempt to convince Lois she's mentally ill so she'll commit suicide.

Notes:

• Lois and Clark are the same person.
• Of course bullets bounced off Superman.
• Pretty grim.
• He's fast enough that he could've moved and hit them without them seeing a thing.
• Superman, miles away, saved Lois in an instant.

Story #1: "Lois Lane's Super-Brain!"

Lois flips a switch on the "brain bank" machine, giving her the knowledge of hundreds of great minds, at the expense of her beauty.

Notes:

• Lois's head shrunk and hair regrew in her sleep... somehow.

Story #2: "The Battle of the Sisters!"

Lois, Jimmy and Lana assume Superman is courting Lucy, when in fact it's Bor-Jak from Kandor.

Notes:

• Bor-Jak lifted a commercial airliner into the sky above the fog.
• Bor-Jak flew by the emergency exit on the plane, inadvertently ripping it off.
• What is it with Kandorian men stalking Earth women?
• Superman saw the events of the story from Kandor with his Telescopic Vision.
• But not because she loved Jimmy or anything.

Letters to Lois:

• There was something wrong with some of these fans.
• Savage.
• Well then.

Story #3: "The Last Days of Lois Lane!"

Lois is convinced she's dying of radiation poisoning, so she attempts to kill herself multiple times.

Notes:

• Radiation did not affect Superman, but, peace? The irony.
• Why would she have a seat reserved because she's a woman?
• I'm guessing those men just died?
• Superman flew to Canada in moments.
• Superman's attention was selective.
• They sent up a monkey and dog to die? Or was Superman going to rescue them? More over, why would Lois care about that, unless she's thrilled she'll die? She's been in space with Superman before.
• Superman sped to the rocket and ripped the nose off before it could explode.
• Superman read Lois's letter as she wrote it inside her apartment.
• The font size drastically changed from panel to panel.
• Superman parted lava with his breath.
• Superman hypnotized Lois without her knowing.
• Superman remembered everything Lois said and typed it at super-speed.
• Lois looks better with wet hair in this panel.
• Kinda cruel... and Superman looks similar to as he does in the Super Friends.

Story #1: "The Lois Lane of the Future"

Luthor sends Superman into the future to get rid of him... despite how the Man of Steel breaks through the time barrier every other week.

Notes:

• Superman had at least micro-second reactions.
• Lois made decisions otherwise made by the bride and groom, for some reason.
• Superman was sent and knocked unconscious into the future by Luthor's nonsensebeam.
• Lois 4XR hit a rock into outer space with a tree.
• Superman lifted a cave ceiling while unnecessarily telling Lois 4XR to leave.
• Superman, accelerating into the asteroid belt, saves a self-deprecating Lois 4XR.
• Superman flies at "galactic speeds" with a dash of sexism.
• Superman clumsily almost destroyed the paper he was looking for--proving he and Lois eventually wed--instead of using his X-ray Vision to read it.
• Superman broke through the time barrier.

Story #2: "Lois Lane's Super-Lesson"

Superman helps out an Indian king to teach Lois a lesson--for using him--despite him being a womanizing, chauvinistic, polygamist.

Notes:

• I'd like to see him try.
• Superman's tongue moved at super-speeds to trick a thermometer.
• Superman's Telescopic Vision spotted sweat.
• Superman beat up a killer tiger.
• Superman was too quick for human eyes.
• Superman transported Lois and the rajah to the Moon in minutes.
• Superman telepathically communicated with Lori Lemaris.
• The rajah turned out to be a scumbag.

Letters to Lois:

• I wonder if they followed through... then again, I haven't seen the hair style election they promised.
• The serial does still look as though it's stuck in the 50s.

Story #3: "Lois Lane, Gun Moll"

Luthor kidnaps Lois and creates a robot of replica of her... somehow, perfect in nearly every way, engineered to commit crimes and exact revenge upon Superman.

Notes:

• Synthetic kryptonite out of nowhere...
• Superman tracked the Lois robot by listening to the frequency signal in her electronic brain.
• Their marriage was never valid to begin with.

Story #1: "Lois Lane's Secret Identity"

Mr. Mxy casts a hex on Superman because she wrote an unfavorable article about him, forcing him to hate her and fall in love with her secret identity she uses to get scoops.

Notes:

• Superman's slap caused a criminal to do a backflip, for some reason.
• What about Lori Lemaris?
• Superman and green don't go well together.
• Superman moved mountains and cleared away forests.
• Mxy hexed Superman.

Story #2: "The School for Scoops"

Lois is chosen to teach a course on reporting at local university, wherein racketeers attempt to snuff her out.

Notes:

• Me me.
• Totally had nothing to do with Superman.
• Lois had enough time to cut a crook's head with a fan somehow.
• Superman appeared an instant after Jimmy used his signal-watch to summon him.

Letters to Lois:

• I know right.

Story #3: "The Irresistible Lois Lane"

Superman falls into a kryptonite trap set by some aliens near his fortress, so he tells Krypto with Super-Ventriloquism to alert Lois of the situation via Plan "L". Knowing she's under watch, Lois tricks the aliens by dipping her lipstick into red kryptonite fragments, a cure for kryptonite poisoning, and kisses a few JLA members, who in turn deliver the fragments to Superman.

Notes:

• Creepy.
• More like a reptile.
• Excursion boats catching fire in the harbor seems to be a common event.
• Savage.
• Superman flew Batman's plane from the arctic to Metropolis.
• Superman knew some random alien language.
• Why only once?

16 days later... yikes. I feel bad, but between computer problems and flat out not having one for an extended period of time, there's neither been time nor a way for me to update this thread. This is not so dissimilar to why I had an absence of entries earlier in the month (as I mentioned), but rest assured, I will do my best to make up for it this time. So, to mark my return, I decided I would make a special entry for this post, as well as your standard Lois Lane entries.

Does everyone remember in Action Comics when Superman tanked the Big Bang itself? No? What about the scans everyone tosses around saying either Pre-Crisis or SA Superman did it? Yeah, those ones. Even I had erroneously stated in the past on here the event transpired in the Silver Age. Thing is though, no one bothered to correct me, probably due to the fact that not many people are aware that particular event took place in the Bronze Age, in Action Comics #553. Now, Silver and Bronze Age Superman are the exact same person, it's just that the latter is significantly weaker. I'm creating this entry to clear up any confusion anyone might have, so it is a little bit of a departure, but not that big of one.

After reading this story arc, I was a bit confused. Bronze Age Superman tanking the Big Bang seemed so... odd, because it seems like such a Silver Age feat. It's somewhat made me want to make BA Superman the subject of my next analysis, but that too is an enormous task. So I think after I finish all this Silver Age stuff with Superman, I'll go for a lighter, less tedious job (i.e. SA Spectre).

First impressions:

• Art appears far more detailed.
• Story is far more serious.
• Narrative prose is more concise, far more eloquent.
• Narration boxes are less redundant.
• Dialogue is more down-to-earth.

Story: "Another Time! Another Death!"

Rip Hunter and group of others witness a mysterious temple that brings them each misfortune. As a result, they're assembled by Immortal Man to stop Superman from spreading Vandal Savage's time-seeds.

Notes:

• Superman lifted an entire apartment complex, melted it and threw it halfway across the world in a matter of seconds.
• Superman froze Metropolis Park and lava within it.
• Superman drilled into the Earth.

Story: "The World At Time's End!"

Vandal Savage's goal is revealed: turning the Earth into a prehistoric, tropical paradise by harnessing the pyramids' powers. Immortal Man and the "Forgotten Heroes" set out to destroy the time pyramids in order to stop Savage, ultimate using Superman to destroy the final one at the beginning of time. One thing I'm unsure of about this issue is, did Superman destroy what the Big Bang could not? Why else would he need to destroy it then, since it was directly in the center?

Notes:

• Superman broke through the "impenetrable" force-field.
• Superman traveled ninety million miles to the Sun in a short period of time.
• Superman made a dinosaur fun time playpen.
• Superman brushed off a pressure and noise that knocked the others unconscious.
• Superman hurled himself into the Big Bang, where all gravity was centered, blinded by the light.
• Superman withstood the pressure and broke into the time pyramid, subsequently exploding with him in it.
• Immortal Man was inconsistent...

Story: "If Superman Didn't Exist"

As it turns out, an alien race incapable of violence planted the "power pyramids" in order to erase the idea of heroism and stunt everyone's imaginations. In doing so, the human race would be unable to resist and harm them. When Superman destroyed the power pyramid at the beginning of time, he initiated the effect and caused the ripple in the time stream. Fortunately enough, two kids reimagine him into the timeline, where he reverts everything back to normal.

Notes:

• Oh no, cavemen, how would an advanced alien civilization ever deal with them?
• Uh... Right.
• Superman wasn't killed by the Big Bang, but vanished as a result of the time ripple from destroying the pyramid.
• Because that's exactly what would happen without war.
• They're right, how would they be able to stop them?
• He drew that with a rock or something.
• I guess the time ripple brought the pyramids back into existence?
• Subtle hints were dropped along the story that the aliens (whom look nothing like the cover) were could not kill.
• Superman was imagined back into the time stream, proving he wasn't killed.
• Superman tanked teleportation lasers.

We know return to your regularly scheduled Lois Lane comics.

Story #1: "When Superman Abandoned Lois Lane!"

Superman attempts to teach Lois a lesson for being so impetuous, only for it to be spoiled by his pal Jimmy Olsen.

Notes:

• I guess girls weren't allowed to be window-washers in the 50s/early 60s or something.
• Silver Age comics weren't as "clean" as some people think.
• Did people consider chocolate safe for dogs back then or something?
• Krypto was too fast for human eyes.
• A blow torch didn't affect Krypto.
• Not redundant at all.
• Idiot.

Story #2: "Superman's Secret Family!"

Lois spots one of Superman's robots on another planet with a family, angrily assuming him to be the real Superman.

Notes:

• Superman's body, of course, was harder than steel.
• Brutal.
• Superman flew Lois to another planet in a short amount of time.

Letters to Lois:

• Talk about delusional...
• I would like an encyclopedia written by Bizzaro.
• Somehow, I don't feel like that rule holds up in comics.
• Uh...

Story #3: "The Robot Paradise!"

The origin of Superman X-3 and his situation are made clear.

Notes:

• Red kryptonite turned Superman into a phantom.
• Death wasn't that rare in Silver Age stories.

Story #1: "The Magic Spectacles!"

Lois obtains a pair of magic glasses once owned by Merlin, allowing her to see the true character of someone's personality (i.e. represented by an animal).

Notes:

• Ah, the economy of 1962.
• Lovely.
• Superman froze water with his breath.
• Superman was too fast for human eyes.
• Yes, the horror of the incredibly mild curiosity of wanting to know what animal was similar to Clark's personality.
• Superman was too fast for human eyes again.
• Superman was too fast for human eyes a third time.

Story #2: "The Jealous Lois Lane!"

Professor Potter invents a machine that registers emotions with a light bulb and bell. Lois, being a stubborn liar, states she wouldn't care if Superman married Lana, and wouldn't be jealous of anyone giving him affection. As a result, Perry has her wear the machine for a day following Superman's patrols.

Notes:

• How unfortunate for him.
• Topo read Lois's mind.
• Superman, acting as a human dynamo, stored enough electrical energy to replace water power for 100 years.
• Lois wore the machine the next day to work... for some reason.

Letters to Lois:

• That's the way the kryptonite crumbles.
• I was wondering what was up with that.

Story #3: "The Unforgettable Superman!"

Lois and Lana attempt to forget about Superman, realizing their expectations to be unrealistic.

Notes:

• The horror of being unmarried.
• Yet, she's thinking of him in that same bubble.
• Superman flew through a mountain top.
• That's a mansion...?

Story #1: "The Silver Coin of Fate!"

A perfect duplicate of Superman from Bizarro World attempts to marry Lois, who in turn has no idea he isn't the real Superman.

Notes:

• Or he could've saved them fast enough so that neither knew who was saved first.
• Superman's breath created a cushion.
• Superman had super-aim.
• Superman broke through the time barrier.
• Superman compared time travel to commuting.
• Superman snatched Lana up with lightning speed.
• Superman kidnapped Lana, traveled into the future and left her there.

Story #2: "The Widow in Black!"

Perry attempts to teach Lois a lesson by disguising himself as a criminal and putting her life in "danger".

Notes:

• Lois Lane the sailor.

Letters to Lois:

• Dammit.
• Yes please.
• I wonder if they went through it.

Story #3: "Lois Lane's Revenge on Superman!"

Superman tries to grab a youth serum from Lois, spilling it on himself and becoming a child.

Notes:

• Poor Lois.

This entry is dedicated in memory of Noel Neill.

Story #1: "The Phantom Lois Lane!"

Lana's negative traits are amplified by a piece of space metal, prompting her to send Lois into the Phantom Zone in order to court Superman.

Notes:

• Blue space metal didn't affect Superman.

Letters to Lois:

• Lana Lang, creepy? How dare.

Story #2: "The Candid Camera Kid!"

Lois attempts to bust a counterfeit operation in a small town.

Notes:

• Clever girl.

Story #3: "Lois Lane, Slave Girl!"

In order to stop Lois from testifying at a trial, two crooks and a professor send Lois back to Ancient Rome with a time bomb.

Notes:

• Goats' milk for a bath...?

Story #1: "The Bride of Luthor! (Part I)"

Lois falls in love with a reformed Lex Luthor, marries him and has a child with him.

Notes:

• Actually, this story takes place on Earth-Thirty-Four.
• Classic Luthor.

"The Bride of Luthor! (Part II)"

Notes:

• Not sure why he couldn't just give her permanent powers like before.
• Lois... didn't age well.
• Jimmy sure didn't look like that in 1977.
• That's the last thing they need.
• She regretted her happy marriage, but not the child that ruined it.

Letters to Lois:

• What...
• Please no.
• Someone levelheaded.

Story #2: "Lois Lane, Millionairess"

Lois falls prey to a scheme that never needed to involve her to get rid of Superman. In fact, had Lois not been involved, Clark never would've gotten in the car and discovered the kryptonite.

Notes:

• Who wears clothes while they bathe?
• Superman caught a limousine.
• Not sure why this plan needed Lois...
• Supergirl's breath sucked Lois and some balloons into the sky.
• Superman tuned into the criminals voices like a radio.
• Upper middle class equates to rags?

I wished I owned all of these issues. Even if some of them had...Questionable messages, to say the least. Anyway, awesome analysis!

@beta_stage:Thanks, even though I haven't really done much of an analysis yet, as I don't have all the necessary information.

Story #1: "The Amazing Brain Machine!"

Professor Potter drops off his newest invention, MAINIAC, a supercomputer that can answer the world's greatest questions with ease, at Lois's apartment... as opposed to with Superman. So Lois abuses the privilege, receives a note revealing Superman's identity and destroys the machine in a fight with Lana. What doesn't make sense is why she heeded the machine's instructions and didn't look at the note, despite being so impetuous in all of the magazine's previous stories.

Notes:

• The Superman robot's speed was instant.
• Superman used his Super-vision to locate a note, reading it from inside his car.

Story #2: "Lois Lane's Other Life!"

Lois gets into a car accident and loses her memory.

Notes:

• If only bleaching black hair was so easy.
• Superman lifted Lois's car and... god what an ugly hairstyle.
• Ahaha.... Also Superman's skin, harder than steel, yada yada.
• Superman was too fast for the human to follow.
• Ha, ha.

Letters to Lois:

• What kind of suggestion is that...?
• Because women were and are more unpredictable than men, right?

Story #3: "The Fantastic Wigs of Mr. Dupre!"

Lois investigates local charity swindlers, who in turn attempt to cleverly kill her.

Notes:

• These story covers are basically clickbait.
• Reminds me of the demons in Effrul in Lucifer.
• Yeah, how about that.
• Bullets bounced off Supergirl and a truck ramming into her did nothing.
• Can't wait 'til I can read these two.

Story #1: "The Day Lois Lane Vanished!"

Lois returns home from vacation to find out she doesn't exist. Spoiler, she does exist.

Notes:

• Totally how polygraphs work.
• Derp.
• Rekt.
• Superman created thunder by clapping his hands, as he should've done in issue #8.

Story #2: "The Madam Jekyll of Metropolis!"

An explosion lances a beam of neutrons into some red kryptonite, affecting Lois in a way that unpredictably turns Lois into a wolf woman.

Notes:

• As if her hair weren't short enough.
  • Psycho Lois.
  • Their haircuts were dated even in 1962.

Letters to Lois:

• Oh boy, the Code.
• The horror.

Story #3: "Lana Lang's Romance with Superman III"

Superman marries Lois after inventing a serum to give her permanent super-powers. As a result, Lana becomes depressed and risks her life in a science experiment, ultimately being transported to the future where she meets Superman's and Lois's decedent, Superman III.

Notes:

• Caging poor space animals, the monster.
• Yes Lana dear, let the gay flow through you.
• Tacky.
• Everyone loves a good loser.
• Superman and Lois lifted sea-liners.
• Space-time wasn't exactly a new concept in 1965...
• The poor dear.
• Give me a break.
• Seriously?
• Apparently this happened on Earth-Thirty-Six.

So, I forgot about the first Lois Land annual. A few of the stories are from the Lois Lane serial, whereas others are from its companion magazines. Eventually when I go over those, I'll do the same for what I'm doing for the stories I've covered.

Story #1: "Superboy Meets Lois Lane"

Lois meets Superboy for the first time at a summer camp near Smallville.

Notes:

• A grizzly bear shattered its teeth on Superboy's arm.
• Superboy threw a bear a mile away.
• Or he's just, y'know, fast?
• Superboy flew a glacier from the arctic to camp.
• The horror.
• Super-whisper?
• What even is this page.
• I'm tempted to start a counter now, for all the times people randomly find green kryptonite laying around.
• Superboy was wrongfully abused.

Story #2: "The Leopard Girl of the Jungle"

Covered in issue #11.

Story #3: "Lois Lane's Super-Dream"

Lois falls and hits her head, knocking herself out. Details of her blood transfusion seep into her subconscious, thereby making her dream Superman transfused some of his blood, giving her super-powers.

Notes:

• Power Girl and Superman supported a bridge.
• Power-Girl put out a fire with her breath.
• Classic Clark Kent.
• Kent had one task...
• The magic of invulnerability... god Lois was so mean to Clark in the Silver Age.
• Uh this happened and Lois evaporated a large pond with her Heat Vision.
• Clark landed too fast and created a minor Earthquake. I also don't think oaf would've been the first word that came to mind for that guy.
• Gimme.
• I wonder if that contest issue is floating around anywhere online.

Story #4:"Lieutenant Lois Lane, U.S. Army!"

Covered in issue #6.

Story #5: "The Mermaid from Metropolis!"

Covered in issue #12.

Story #6:"Lois Lane... Traitor!"

Covered in issue #24.

Story #7:"The Cry-Baby of Metropolis"

Covered in issue #10.

Story #8: "The Man Who Was Clark Kent's Double"

Covered in issue #3.

Story #9: "Superman's Future Wife"

Lois visits a restored colonial village known for its witchcraft legends, wherein she ends up seeing Superman's future.

Notes:

• Superman made a ton of pancakes in a second.
• Where's that wall rebuilding eye beam when you need.
• I'm disappointed Superman resorted to that.
• Why do it the hard way?
• That bowl looks like it would've hit her in the head... but not like that.
• How dare she.

• A - Ugly.
• B - Cute.
• C. Hideous.
• D. Cute.
• F. Adorable.
• E. Cute.

Funny how it worked out so that I had to cover three stories as usual.

Story #1: "The Forbidden Box!"

Superman tests Lois's curiosity by giving her a gift she isn't allowed to open for a day.

Notes:

• Does she have to cry every time something doesn't go her way?

Story #2: "The Immortal Lois Lane!"

Lois dreams she goes back in time to 1530... or does she?

Notes:

• Total bullshit.
• Harmful stereotype.
• Where did all that hair come from?

Letters to Lois:

• Satan?
• Lana usually does look fabulous.
• What a lame excuse, but yeah, how "naughty" and "fresh".

Story #3: "Lois Lane's Wedding Day!"

Lois attempts to expose a racket but ends up "marrying" Clark Kent in the process.

Notes:

• Did they even have good quality cameras that size back then?
• Lois and Clark in a nutshell.
• Why arrest the fake preacher being hired from the modeling agency?
• He only discovered it a few panels prior...
• But... they already exposed his racket. Moreover, it was just a meaningless ceremony.
• Why did so many people back then have such ugly names?
• I didn't realize Superman was blind.
• Silver Age stories...
• It never ends.
• Exactly, so why not enjoy the paid vacation?
• Right, the certificate is what matters, not the ceremony, so why did they forget? Talk about PIS...
• Why? The model was only doing his job.
• Didn't work.

Story #1: "The Invisible Lois Lane!"

Lois drinks a serum that makes her invisible, prompting her to spy on Clark.

Notes:

• Machine gun bullets bounced off Superman's jaw.
• ?!
• So the comics outwardly state Perry's fat, yet it's never the subject of interest, unlike when a woman is in the same serial?
• can't*

Story #2: "Lois Lane's Signal Watch!"

Lois gets conned into leading racketeers to stolen goods.

Notes:

• Supergirl showed up rather conveniently... and melted some stalactites and stalagmites with her Heat Vision.
• It was so obvious.
• Is this a joke?

Letters to Lois:

• She's prettier and not as curious, clearly the better woman.
• Kill Lois Lane.
• A likely story.
• An even more likely story.
• Savage

Story #3: "The Girl Who Refused to Marry Superman!"

Superman dreams he loses his powers.

Notes:

• Superman read 1,000 cards a second.
• impenetrable*
• Don't look so enthused guy.
• Red kryptonite can only affect Superman up to 48 hours.
• Superman had a healing factor.
• Uh... he didn't have any bandages on his eyes.
• Yes he can.
• Lovely.
• Superman dug a wide chasm.
• Lana outfits really do look better.
• Superman processed a dream lasting days in seconds.