Lois Lane Part I

Lois Lane Annual 1 and 2 were among the earliest reprint books from DC Comics, published in the summer of 1962 and summer 1963 respectively. Nineteen stories were reprinted from four different comics - Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane, Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen, Superman and Adventure Comics. Seven have recently been reprinted in the Archive Editions.

Here are the four in Lois Lane Annual 1

Lois Lane's Super-Dream (a)

Superman's Future Wife! (b)

The Man Who Was Clark Kent's Double (c)

Lieutenant Lois Lane, U.S. Army! (c) And from Lois Lane Annual 2

The Man Who Married Lois Lane! (d)

Lois Lane in Hollywood (c)

Lois Lane's Kiss of Death! (c) (a) Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives Volume 1 (b) Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives Volume 2 (c) Lois Lane, Superman Girl's Friend Archives Volume 1 (d) Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives Volume 3 The editor, Mort Weisinger, was in the habit of editing reprints. Three of the four stories in Annual 1 listed above were edited. The first two changed Superman's x-ray vision to heat vision. When the stories were first published Superman didn't have heat vision. The fourth story was edited for space with four panels deleted. Lois Lane Annual 1 - Summer 1962 Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives Volume 1 - 2004 The first story above, "Lois Lane's Super-Dream", is a very funny dream story where Lois has powers and through a blood transfusion gives Clark Kent super powers. But Clark is his cowardly self and is unable to handle them. The scene where x-ray vision is switched to heat vision in the reprint has him trying to rescue people from a sinking boat in a ludicrously complicated way. Aside from the obvious the scene is funny because in many "real" Superman stories he also used a complex method to do good. from Archives edition Lois LAne Annual 1