Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #113

DC Comics

United States

Published
September-October 1971
Page count
68
Cover price
0.35 USD
Colour
Colour
Size
Standard size
Interior paper
Newsprint
Cover stock
Glossy colour
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Format
Comic series
GCD
www.comics.org/issue/24517

Credits

Editing
E. Nelson Bridwell, Editor

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover The Strangest Love Stories Ever Told! (Lois Lane) Cover, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Lois Lane
Genre
Superhero
Code
N-346
Characters
Lois Lane; Superman; Lana Lang; Lana Lane; Bamor; Herko

Credits

Art
Dick Giordano, line art
Colours
Jack Adler, colourist
Text
, typeset

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Giant Lois Lane Album (Colour Comics, 1964 series) #10 ([June 1973?])
The Strangest Love Stories Ever Told!

Notes

Giordano pencils per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Curt Swan and Kurt Schaffenberger with pencils.

Show/hide 1. Untitled Table of contents, 1 page

Featuring

Code
N-349

Credits

Writing
E. Nelson Bridwell , scripter
Art
Kurt Schaffenberger, line art (illustration)
Colours
, colourist (illustration)
Text
, typeset
Show/hide 2. Part I: The Unknown Superman! (Lois Lane) Comic story, 7 pages

Featuring

Feature
Lois Lane
Genre
Superhero
Code
N-330
Characters
Lois Lane; Superman; Dr. Drolic; Joe Brant; Mr. Grant; Strong Bear [Bamor]

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
Kurt Schaffenberger, line art [signed]
Colours
, colourist
Text
Joe Letterese , letterer
Editing
Mort Weisinger, original editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #49 (May 1964)
The Unknown Superman! Part I
Also printed
Australia
Century Comic (Colour Comics, 1961 series) #101 ([November 1964?])
The Unknown Superman! Part I
 
Australia
Giant Lois Lane Album (Colour Comics, 1964 series) #10 ([June 1973?])
Part I: The Unknown Superman!
 
Australia
Lois Lane Comic (KGM, 1975 series) #125 ([May 1978?])
The Unknown Superman Part 2: The Secret of Strong Bear

Synopsis

Dr. Drolic has a machine that will find the greatest unknown person in a given category. Lois uses it to find the greatest unknown super-person which leads her to Strong Bear.

Show/hide 3. Part II: The Secret of Strong Bear! (Lois Lane) Comic story, 9 pages

Featuring

Feature
Lois Lane
Genre
Superhero
Code
N-331
Characters
Lois Lane; Strong Bear [Bamor]; Dr. Drolic; Lana Lang (cameo); Superman

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
Kurt Schaffenberger, line art
Colours
, colourist
Text
Joe Letterese , letterer
Editing
Mort Weisinger, original editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #49 (May 1964)
Part II: The Secret of Strong Bear!
Also printed
Australia
Century Comic (Colour Comics, 1961 series) #101 ([November 1964?])
Part II: The Secret of Strong Bear!
 
Australia
Giant Lois Lane Album (Colour Comics, 1964 series) #10 ([June 1973?])
Part II: The Secret of Strong Bear!

Synopsis

Lois learns the truth about Strong Bear.

Show/hide 4. The Monster Who Loved Lois Lane! (Lois Lane) Comic story, 8 pages

Featuring

Feature
Lois Lane
Genre
Superhero
Code
N-333
Characters
Lois Lane; Superman [also appears as Clark Kent]; Herko; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Dr. Elder

Credits

Writing
Ed Hamilton, scripter [as Edmond Hamilton]
Art
Kurt Schaffenberger, line art
Colours
, colourist
Text
Vivian Berg, letterer
Editing
Mort Weisinger, original editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #54 (January 1965)
The Monster Who Loved Lois Lane!
Also printed
Australia
Century Comic (Colour Comics, 1961 series) #105 ([March 1965?])
The Monster Who Loved Lois Lane
 
Australia
Giant Lois Lane Album (Colour Comics, 1964 series) #10 ([June 1973?])
The Monster Who Loved Lois Lane!
 
Australia
Lois Lane Comic (KGM, 1975 series) #124 ([March 1978?])
The Monster Who Loved Lois Lane

Synopsis

A science experiment gone wrong releases a creature from another dimension that is infatuated with Lois and jealously fights Superman.

Show/hide 5. The Return of Lois' Monster Sweetheart! (Lois Lane) Comic story, 8 pages

Featuring

Feature
Lois Lane
Genre
Superhero
Code
N-334
Characters
Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Herko; Dr. Elder; Zagga; Superman (flashback)

Credits

Writing
Ed Hamilton, scripter [as Edmond Hamilton]
Art
Kurt Schaffenberger, line art [signed]
Colours
, colourist
Text
Milt Snapinn, letterer
Editing
Mort Weisinger, original editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #57 (May 1965)
The Return of Lois' Monster Sweetheart!
Also printed
Australia
Super Adventure Comic (Colour Comics, 1960 series) #24 ([December 1965?])
The Return of Lois's Monster Sweetheart!
 
Australia
Giant Lois Lane Album (Colour Comics, 1964 series) #10 ([June 1973?])
The Return of Lois's Monster Sweetheart!

Synopsis

Lois and Jimmy go to Herko's dimension to try to stop him from waiting for Lois. She convinces Jimmy to court Herko's neighbor Zagga to make him jealous.

Show/hide 6. The Girl Who Mourned for Superman! (Lois Lane) Comic story, 9.67 pages

Featuring

Feature
Lois Lane
Genre
Superhero
Code
N-332
Characters
Lois Lane; Superman; Lex Luthor; Superman Emergency Squad; Perry White; Lucy Lane; Jimmy Olsen

Credits

Writing
Leo Dorfman, scripter
Art
Kurt Schaffenberger, line art
Colours
, colourist
Text
Joe Letterese , letterer
Editing
Mort Weisinger, original editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #43 (August 1963)
The Girl Who Mourned for Superman!
Also printed
Australia
Giant Lois Lane Album (Colour Comics, 1964 series) #10 ([June 1973?])
The Girl Who Mourned for Superman!
 
Australia
Lois Lane Comic (KGM, 1975 series) #125 ([May 1978?])
The Girl Who Mourned for Superman

Synopsis

Unknown to Lois, an accident transports her to a parallel world where she sees Superman die in a trap set by Lex Luthor.

Show/hide 7. For Stories That Are Different (Superman) Promo (ad from the publisher), 0.33 pages

Featuring

Feature
Superman
Genre
Superhero

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
Curt Swan, penciller
 
Murphy Anderson, inker
Colours
, colourist
Text
Gaspar Saladino, letterer

Notes

house ad for Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #403, on sale June 29

Show/hide 8. Superman's Romance with Lana Lane! (Lois Lane) Comic story, 7.67 pages

Featuring

Feature
Lois Lane
Genre
Superhero
Code
N-329
Characters
Lois Lane; Lana Lang; Superman; Lana Lane (flashback)

Credits

Writing
Jerry Siegel, scripter
Art
Curt Swan, penciller
 
George Klein, inker
Colours
, colourist
Text
, letterer
Editing
Mort Weisinger, original editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #41 (May 1963)
Superman's Romance with Lana Lane!
Also printed
Australia
Superman Presents World's Finest Comic Monthly (Colour Comics, 1965 series) #11 ([March 1966?])
Superman's Romance With Lana Lane
 
Australia
Giant Lois Lane Album (Colour Comics, 1964 series) #10 ([June 1973?])
Superman's Romance with Lana Lane
 
Australia
Lois Lane Comic (KGM, 1975 series) #124 ([March 1978?])
Superman's Romance with Lana Lane

Synopsis

While visiting Superman's Fortress, Lois and Lana find a picture of Superman proposing to a girl who looks like both of them. He tells them the story, which they have forgotten, of how they were temporarily merged into one girl a few years earlier.

Show/hide 9. Untitled (Green Lantern; The Flash) Comic story, 2 pages

"Flash! Get out of the way!"

Featuring

Feature
Green Lantern; The Flash
Genre
Superhero
Code
N-344
Characters
Flash [Jay Garrick]; The Thorn [Rose Canton]; Joan Williams; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]

Credits

Writing
Robert Kanigher, scripter
Art
Joe Kubert, line art
Colours
, colourist
Text
, letterer

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Giant Lois Lane Album (Colour Comics, 1964 series) #10 ([June 1973?])
Presenting the Original Golden Age Rose and the Thorn

Synopsis

The Flash rescues his girlfriend Joan from the Thorn, who reverts back to her "good" personality as the Rose. Green Lantern takes the Rose to Transformation Island, where the Amazons will rid her of the Thorn personality.

Notes

two-page excerpt from an unpublished Golden Age Flash story

Show/hide 10. Untitled (Letters to Lois) Letters page, 2 pages

Featuring

Feature
Letters to Lois
Code
N-345

Credits

Writing
E. Nelson Bridwell, scripter
Text
, typeset

Notes

Letters submitted by Gregory Kent; Nicole Schneider; Susan Morrison; Lex Morris; Mike Smith; Miriam T. Nebrida; Linda Gillman; Christopher Bailey; David Kaufman; D. Kruse; Roberta Voll.


Notes

Also designated on cover as Giant (DC, 1969 series) #G-87 and as G-87 on indicia page.

On-sale date from copyright registration.

Status

AusReprints ID

  • 35070

Entry created

  • 22/11/2007

Index completed

  • 25/06/2022

Last updated

  • 25/06/2022