lois lane - wtf?

Unexpectedly my mother is an authority on superman comics (not a particularly authorititive authority, she just knows a LOT more about it than one would expect from her). She tells me that there is a great recurring theme of LL initials among important people in Superman's life: Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Lex Luther (there's more than that, i just can't think of them)

Until recently my big brother and I were in long term relationships with girl's whose names began with L. if we had married these ladies they would have got the initials LL. i don't know if that's not the secret influence that superman has on my life...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 08:26 (twenty-two years ago)

my friend, emily collects lois lane comics. i buy them for her when i see them. the plot usually revolves around her doing something insane to win the love of superman - i.e. marrying satan, etc.

― doomie x, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

oh my god i so totally wanna read all those comic books

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

her mom actually said this: i'm not sure about lois lane, she's ... she's a bit insane, isnt she, Emily? i think that was the issue where SHE TOOK THE EYES OF A DERANGED SERIAL KILLER TO CAPTURE THE ATTENTION OF SUPERMAN!

― doomie x, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

that first comic book, about living life as a black lady for 24 hours - that's so priceless i can't bear it...

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 08:50 (twenty-two years ago)

its fucking daft and stupuid. but strangely touching in its 'hey let's be topical'...

ll comics can be picked up very cheaply as well. which is fun.

― doomie x, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i am curious - BLACK!

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

weird dutch art house / Prophetic Fall reference?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a picture saved many years ago, (lost now) Superman was trying to work out which of the 'band obviously the beatles but not with that name' was actually dead, as they got off their aeroplane, or something.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 09:05 (twenty-two years ago)

She tells me that there is a great recurring theme of LL initials among important people in Superman's life: Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Lex Luther (there's more than that, i just can't think of them)

Lori Lemaris, Lyla Lerrol, Luma Lynai among old flames. There's a further list here

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.greenarrowfansite.com/reviews/images/GLno76b.JPG

when i got into art school -- one of the portfolio pieces was a HUGE reproduction of the above.

― doomie x, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha "black-curious"!

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Alan Moore to thread!

― Barima (Barima), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Beyonce to thread as well (for 24 hours only)!

― Barima (Barima), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

woo-hoo!

― Huckelborace (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.moviepoopshoot.com/comics101/images/2003/sep24/bizarrosinlove.jpg

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

when comics STOP being polite...and start getting REAL

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Lois Lane vs Lana Lang vs Lori Lemaris vs Linda Lee

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.supermanartists.comics.org/batman/catwoman-loislane70.jpg

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://theages.superman.ws/BookShop/seventies/catsup.jpg

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

for many bad reasons, that one makes me think of Wesley Willis.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

http://theages.superman.ws/BookShop/seventies/lois.jpg

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

oh man there's a cult stud dissertation in here, maybe a few

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.nighthawkcomics.com/comics/loislane071.jpg

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been a fan of these comics for years. Some of the Jimmy Olsens from that era are just as good - every few issues he had to dress up as a woman for some reason - though you don't get the mad "I know how I'll convince Superman to marry me!" stories, sadly.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

As I mentioned on a few other threads, I got the Tales from the Bizarro World tpb yesterday and it's so wonderful.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

wtf

― wtf, Friday, 2 December 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

ahem.

also.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 December 2005 08:12 (twenty years ago)

http://www.millionaireplayboy.com/images/blacklois9.gif

And what was Type O Negative's most popular song?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 2 December 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

I Am Curious Oranj!

Only joking, they never had any.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 2 December 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

"tense minutes tick by like spurting heartbeats"
Nick change available everybody!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 December 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

just bought a copy of "I Am Curious (Black)" on ebay. Stoked.

― Joint Custody (ian), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 19:55 (sixteen years ago)

LUCKY FUCKING BITCH

― i accidentally touched the nub and it was squishy (HI DERE), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 20:01 (sixteen years ago)

it's not in very good condition, but for $7!!!!

― Joint Custody (ian), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 20:01 (sixteen years ago)

I really need to start selling some of my old floppies, if the bottom isn't totally out of the market.

― America's Next Most Disabled Ballerina (WmC), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 20:04 (sixteen years ago)

i think the only floppies i'm going to collect anymore are lois lane. only trades for everything else. unless i see some particularly nice underground or something.

― Joint Custody (ian), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 20:05 (sixteen years ago)

lois hotter as a black woman imo

― hairylaser micropenis pavilion (latebloomer), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 20:05 (sixteen years ago)

i everyone's o

― i accidentally touched the nub and it was squishy (HI DERE), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 20:06 (sixteen years ago)

smashable either way.

― Joint Custody (ian), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 20:07 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.agonyboothmedia.com/images/articles/Lois_Lane_9_Supermans_Mystery_Song/loislane9supermansmysterysong.0109.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 20:19 (sixteen years ago)

Skipping 25 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

at this point I think Jimmy literally does have a thousand faces, all neatly preserved in formaldehyde

― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 19:29 (sixteen years ago)

I don't want to marry a female King Kong!

― girl moves (Abbott), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 19:30 (sixteen years ago)

a good pre-op ape is hard to find, Jimmy; count yr blessings

― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 19:38 (sixteen years ago)

"I can't fuck a gorilla!"

http://a.getbackimages.com/uri/w514_h800_cfalse/the-man-with-two-brains/image/2/9/9/0/2990996.jpg

― Snake Effect Low (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 19:39 (sixteen years ago)

http://superdickery.com/images/stories/other/1296_4_057.jpg

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 19:57 (sixteen years ago)

http://superdickery.com/images/stories/other/1296_4_072.jpg

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:01 (sixteen years ago)

The waist-to-hip ratio on Lana Lang (?) on that super-tot spanking one is ridonculous.

― Snake Effect Low (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:15 (sixteen years ago)

The great thing about these covers is how very many of them there are.

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:16 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.chicagospankingreview.org/comicspage/lane003.jpg

― Joint Custody (ian), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:20 (sixteen years ago)

That's naughty.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:33 (sixteen years ago)

I don't want to marry a female King Kong!

Sorry Jimmy, but as a local Witch Doctor, I now pronounce you man and wife!

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:34 (sixteen years ago)

I never understood the point of Superman comics. His invincibility seems to eliminate most good stories (he can't be beaten).

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:35 (sixteen years ago)

http://superdickery.com/images/stories/dick/1027_4_030.jpg

― original bgm, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:36 (sixteen years ago)

Even the ones where his invincibility isn't an issue, he's always wiggling out of things with his local Witch Doctor status.

― girl moves (Abbott), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:36 (sixteen years ago)

Wow, Superman's a crappy dad.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:49 (sixteen years ago)

Never thought about how much Jimmy looked like Archie Andrews until that last picture.

― ô_o (Nicole), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 20:50 (sixteen years ago)

TO DAD SUPERMAN

― Big K.R.U.T. (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:04 (sixteen years ago)

Nicole, this recent trade paperback has a nice selection of stupid 60s jimmy olson comics, in colour too:

http://www.dccomics.com/media/product/7/4/7439_400x600.jpg

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:43 (sixteen years ago)

That's an awesome cover, thanks.

― ô_o (Nicole), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:44 (sixteen years ago)

Wow I had no idea. Jimmy Olsen comics look insane.

― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:07 (sixteen years ago)

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/thumb/7/79/Lois_Lane_20.jpg/300px-Lois_Lane_20.jpg

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:10 (sixteen years ago)

Are there any trade paperbacks available of the Lois Lane or Jimmy Olsen comics?

― ô_o (Nicole), Wednesday, January 6, 2010 2:21 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i want one just of the covers

― max, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:13 (sixteen years ago)

I'd never heard of this comic, but the covers are funny.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/thumb/7/77/Lois_Lane_v.1_12.jpg/300px-Lois_Lane_v.1_12.jpg

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:20 (sixteen years ago)

60s superman group editor mort weisenger - a notorious bully and tyrant - apparently used to regularly visit schools and ask kids what they would like to see in their superman comics. kids wld invariably reply w/ dopey shit like "make superman a bum" and hey presto, that month's issue:

http://www.comics101.com/guestlecturer//news/Guest%20Lecturer/77/1superhobo.jpg

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:29 (sixteen years ago)

here's a gd link to lotsa lois lane covs:

http://www.comics.org/series/1296/covers/?style=default

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:31 (sixteen years ago)

Why wasn't Superman always wearing a purple top hat & cane? That is an amazing look.

― girl moves (Abbott), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:33 (sixteen years ago)

Superman in a top hat = awesome xp

― ô_o (Nicole), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:33 (sixteen years ago)

bum superman's socks

― I regret choosing this bland user name (peter in montreal), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:37 (sixteen years ago)

Hobo Superman looks way less hobo than posh Supes looks posh.

― girl moves (Abbott), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:47 (sixteen years ago)

Weisinger also poured heaps of his insecurities and fears into Superman plots after he started having therapy - "oh noes I've lost my powers and everyone isn't scared of me anymore so they laugh at me!"

― Audrey Wetherspoons (sic), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:34 (sixteen years ago)

I think you guys have found me a new hero.

― girl moves (Abbott), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:37 (sixteen years ago)

xp so why didn't Chabon write about that guy?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:04 (sixteen years ago)

Weisinger also poured heaps of his insecurities and fears into Superman plots after he started having therapy - "oh noes I've lost my powers and everyone isn't scared of me anymore so they laugh at me!"

Doesn't make the Superman character more interesting tho.

Just from the covers, I can tell that Lois Lane's seething jealousies and insecurities make for a much more interesting character.

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:20 (sixteen years ago)

Kavalier & Clay was focussed on the power of creativity, largely; it's why you get Joe making giant silent graphic novels achronologically rather than delving into the assembly-line set-up that Weisinger presided over. Siegel actually was one of Weisinger's regular (and best) writers - but his weakness and lack of personal direction thrived creatively under Mort's tyrannical attitude*, which doesn't fit well with the themes of personal reinvention and expression that K&C is all about. (And of course Sammy in K&C has a whole bunch of personal issues that get in the way of his success - the characters aren't analogues, but...)

Julie Schwarz, another DC kingpin editor who took over the Superman line after Weisinger, does get a one-line cameo in the CHabon IIRC.

*Siegel's LoSH stuff is also often p. good, to be fair, and that had a far less heavy editorial hand than the main Superman Family books - but it's also not hard to see why the put-upon kid who'd had his billion-dollar idea stolen did well with a fantasy of 20 super-powered kids in the future who no-one can tell what to do**, so there

**RJ Brande was no Mort Weisinger

― Audrey Wetherspoons (sic), Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:58 (sixteen years ago)

anachronistically, rather

― Audrey Wetherspoons (sic), Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:59 (sixteen years ago)

I got CD-Rs via CAPA-Alpha a few years ago with scans of Jimmy Olsen #1-40 and Lois Lane #1-40. Never did really look them over much; I better go back and dig the comedy gold.

― wanna be shartin' somethin' (WmC), Thursday, 7 January 2010 02:06 (sixteen years ago)

fyi the black section of metropolis is called "little africa."

― Joint Custody (ian), Monday, 11 January 2010 20:04 (sixteen years ago)

Supes pimping Jimmy off to a Gorilla is one of my favourite covers ever.

― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Monday, 11 January 2010 20:05 (sixteen years ago)

Evan Dorkin is selling a piece of original Curt Swan art, where Supergirl's horse-boyfriend cheats on her with Lois:

So...what we have here is Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane...making out with Comet the Super Horse in human form. Yep. Years before the craze for superhero depravity and creepiness came into being, DC broached the subject of bestiality. DC editorial is probably kicking themselves that they can't claim quasi-animal relations as a daring first or a shocking plot point. Then again, for all I know Beppo the Super Monkey is getting it on with Black Canary and the Huntress in the DCU these days. Don't write in with DC continuity information, folks, thanks but no thanks. Anyway, in the days before "mature superhero comics" the kids got this sort of thing. I'm looking at it again and I still can't get my head wrapped around it. Especially this bit: "This is wild! Maybe he is a superhorse, but this handsome human identity of his really turns me on." I dunno. Maybe Wertham was right. Lois getting turned on by a stud was penciled by Curt Swan, inked by Mike Esposito. 10 1/2" x 16" on board, drawn and approved by bored, jaded, possibly well-oiled DC Comics editors in 1969. Art will be shipped in sturdy and secure packaging. As the great Jack Kirby once said, "Don't ask -- just buy it!"

http://www.houseoffun.com/ebay/lois.jpg

― Kate Sinclair (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2010 00:25 (sixteen years ago)

This is wild. Maybe he's superhorse, but this handsome, human identity of his really turns me on.

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 14 January 2010 00:28 (sixteen years ago)

lois lane -- wtf?

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 14 January 2010 00:29 (sixteen years ago)

don't ever change, DC comics

― shake hands with Gongo? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 January 2010 00:29 (sixteen years ago)

Lois gets around.

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 14 January 2010 00:31 (sixteen years ago)

I thought she lived a chaste life!

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 14 January 2010 00:31 (sixteen years ago)

I am considering paying 42.oo US for that

― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 14 January 2010 00:49 (sixteen years ago)

Was that Lois' line in the next picture?

― Mark G, Thursday, 14 January 2010 00:54 (sixteen years ago)

i just scored a big pile of lois lane & jimmy olsen comics, cheap!!

― Joint Custody (ian), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 19:51 (sixteen years ago)

ENVY

― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 19:55 (sixteen years ago)

awesome!!!

― randomized what nots (latebloomer), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 19:58 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

This 1960 Lois Lane story summary is the best thing you will read today.

http://livingbetweenwednesdays.com/wp-content/uploads/image/Johnathan/Fat%20Week/Landis/03%20-%20grim%20changing.jpg

(Once you have - is it just me or does Liza Landis not look like a typical Schaffenberger face? Based on a real person, inked by someone else?)

― Oh boy, Midgard! That's where I'm a Viking! (sic), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 00:13 (sixteen years ago)

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