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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published May 1960
Frequency monthly, with the exception of Mar, June, Sept, Dec
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "Lana Lang, Superwoman!"

Characters Lois Lane; Superman; Lana Lang
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye; Kurt Schaffenberger (Lois' head)
Letters Ira Schnapp
Reprinted in 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #1 (August 1964)

1 page public service announcement "What's Wrong with These Pictures?"

Synopsis Five ways not to behave are depicted.
Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes Inside front cover; published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly. Later appeared in DC comics cover-dated May 1965.

9 page Lois Lane story "The Girl that Almost Married Clark Kent!"

Characters Lois Lane; Clark Kent [also appears as Superman]; Doris Drake; Jimmy Olsen
Synopsis Doris Drake recieves an amulet from an Indian Fakir that allows her to read minds. She finds out Superman's secret identity and sets out to marry Clark Kent.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Notes writer identification by Martin O'Hearn
Reprinted in Superman Family (DC, 1974 series) #180 (November 1976)

1 page Supergram activity

Characters Superman
Script Martin Naydel ?
Pencils Martin Naydel; ? (Superman figure)
Inks Martin Naydel; ? (Superman figure)
Notes puzzle page

9 page Lois Lane story "Lana Lang, Superwoman!"

Characters Lois Lane [as Super-Lois]; Lana Lang [as Super-Lana]; Superman [also appears as Clark Kent]; Brainiac; Perry White; Jimmy Olsen
Synopsis Superman uses a blood transfusion to give both Lois and Lana super powers.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes writer identification by Martin O'Hearn
Reprinted in 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #3 (September 1964)

Half page Peg story "Mother, we just had a wonderful cooking lesson in school!"

Characters Peg
Genre teen
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

1 page Letters to Lois letters page

Script Mort Weisinger ?
Pencils Al Plastino ? (logo illustration)
Inks ? (logo illustration)
Colors ? (logo illustration)
Letters typeset
Notes Letters submitted by Holly Hart; Ted Diamondstein; Cindy Yarman; Phyllis Jackson; Judy Goldberg; John Wilkey; Will Ravenal; John Dodero; Joel D. Weintraub

8 page Lois Lane story "How Lois Lane Got Her Job"

Characters Lois Lane; Superman [also appears as Clark Kent]; Perry White; Jimmy Olsen
Synopsis Lois remembers three scoops she got before she met Superman.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Reprinted in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #81 (February 1968); in Supermann (Williams Forlag A/S, 1969 series) #8/1969; in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #6 (July-August 1980); in Superman: Daily Planet (DC, 2006 series) #[nn]

1 page Honey in Hollywood story "Cut!"

Characters Honey; Ten-Percent Davis
Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff