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SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE #18

Cover Date: July 1960
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1960-05-12

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye


Story: "The Star Reporter of Metropolis!" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryRobert Bernstein (possible), Otto Binder (possible)
ArtKurt Schaffenberger
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in Superman Vol. 1 #138/3; next in the second story in this issue)

Guest Star(s):

Superman (last in Superman Vol. 1 #138/3; next in the second story in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen (last in Superman Vol. 1 #138/2; next in the second story in this issue)
Lucy Lane (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #45/2; next in the second story in this issue)
Perry White (last in Superman Vol. 1 #138/2; next in the second story in this issue)

Villain(s):

"Bad Man" Brent (first appearance)

Other Character(s):

Dolly Day (first appearance; an actress studying to play Lois Lane; adopts the identity of "Mary Kenyon" to experience a reporter's life)
citizens of Metropolis

Location(s):

Metropolis
Daily Planet

Story Reprinted in:

Showcase Presents: Superman Family #4 ([May] 2013)

Solicitation:

Lois befriends a young girl who wants to be a reporter, but soon she’s being outscooped.


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Second Story: "The Sleeping Doom!" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryRobert Bernstein
ArtKurt Schaffenberger
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Lois Lane (in between the first and the third stories in this issue)

Guest Star(s):

Superman (in between the first and third stories in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen (last in the first story in this issue; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #46)
Lucy Lane (last in the first story in this issue; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #46/2)
Perry White (last in the first story in this issue; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #46)

Villain(s):

Kzga and two other aliens (first appearance for all; voice only; parts of an evil force inhabiting a gem stone, plotting to take control of Earth as humans fall asleep)

Other Character(s):

"Slinky" Sam (first appearance; a reformed pickpocket)
citizens of Metropolis (including the Mayor and Lois Lane's dentist)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814
Earth
Metropolis
Daily Planet
Unidentified Space Sector
an unidentified planet (in flashback)

Story Reprinted in:

80 Page Giant Magazine #14 (September 1965)
Superman Family #179 (October 1976)
Showcase Presents: Superman Family #4 ([May] 2013)


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Third Story: "Lois Lane Weds Astounding Man" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtAl Plastino
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in the second story in this issue; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #46/2)

Guest Star(s):

Superman (last in the second story in this issue; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #46)

Other Character(s):

Astounding Man (first appearance; a super-hero of Roxnon, secretly an android operated by Oogamooga)
Oogamooga (first appearance; an elderly man on Roxnon, infatuated with Lois Lane)
a Lois Lane android (first appearance; secretly operated by Geena)
Geena (first appearance; an elderly woman on Roxnon)
other citizens of Roxnon (first appearance of all)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814
Earth
somewhere outside of Metropolis
Unidentified Space Sector
Roxnon (first appearance)
an unidentified moon (first appearance)

Story Reprinted in:

Superman Annual #6/5 (Winter 1962-1963)
Showcase Presents: Superman Family #4 ([May] 2013)


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