Welcome to another installment of Lois Lane Versus.
I'm off doing stuff that's keeping me away from this blog. To keep you entertained, we're exploring a series of posts based on Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane as Lois face her own challenges.
Today, Lois Lane Versus Clark Kent!
Even as far back as Action Comics#1, Lois and Clark were rivals to be the best reporter to get the best Superman stories. Lois was working at a significant disadvantage
against the constant sexism directed at her as a woman in a male dominated profession.
Oh and Clark Kent is Superman. That too.
For this particular issue, well, there is a lot to unpack with this cover.
Back in the 1960s and particularly at DC and especially in the Mort Weisenger edited Superman titles, it was no uncommon to see an awful lot of exposition in one word balloon.
Why is Lois so big? Clark Kent made her a giant. (Excuse me, she's a woman so "giantess".)
How did he do that? Red kryptonite which only works on Kryptonians usually so hey, Lois is from Krypton now?
Apparently Clark has a habit of pestering Lois and she's had enough of it so off to the Phantom Zone.
Forever!!!
That'll teach you to pester somebody.
You may wonder what's up with the title box that this is an "imaginary tale".
Aren't all comic book stories imaginary?
Under Mort Weisenger, the Superman titles would explore stories that did not take place in what we would call regular continuity. These stories were not "canon". Superman dies and Supergirl takes his place. Superman and Lois get married. Superman gets split into to two people and marries Lois AND Lana. Stuff like that.
So what is Lois up against next time? We'll find out tomorrow in another installment of Lois Lane Versus.
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