Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license.

Issue Details

Issue #9
Published July-August 1957
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whtiney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger (actual)
Notes First Lois Lane feature in her own title. Credits changed from Ruben Moreira pencils to Al Plastino by Bob Hughes 2006-03.

Cover Details - "Mrs. Superman"

Characters Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Notes First Lois Lane feature in her own title. Credits changed from Ruben Moreira pencils to Al Plastino by Bob Hughes 2006-03.
Reprinted in Essential Showcase 1956-1959, The (DC, 1992 series) #nn; in Millennium Edition: Showcase 9 (DC, 2001 series) #nn (January 2001); in Showcase Presents: Superman Family (DC, 2006 series) #1 [black and white]

8 page Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane story "The Girl in Superman's Past"

Characters Lois Lane; Lana Lang; Superman [Clark Kent]
Synopsis Lois meets Lana Lang for the first time, and the girls immediately compete to see whom Superman likes better. But Superman refuses to fall into their traps.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Coleman
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Notes Artist changed from Ruben Moreira by Bob Hughes 2006-03.
Reprinted in Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1990 series) #nn; in Essential Showcase 1956-1959, The (DC, 1992 series) #nn; in Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1992 series) #nn; in Millennium Edition: Showcase 9 (DC, 2001 series) #nn (January 2001); in Superman in the Fifties (DC, 2002 series) #nn; in Showcase Presents: Superman Family (DC, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

Half page Odd Newspaper Facts filler

Genre fact

8 page Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane story "The New Lois Lane"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; "Con" Conners
Synopsis Superman hopes that Lois' constant snooping to find his identity will provide evidence to convince "Con" Conners that he is wrong in believing that Clark Kent is Superman.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Ruben Moreira
Inks Al Plastino
Reprinted in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #100 [as The Un-Curious Lois Lane]; in Essential Showcase 1956-1959, The (DC, 1992 series) #nn; in Millennium Edition: Showcase 9 (DC, 2001 series) #nn (January 2001); in Showcase Presents: Superman Family (DC, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

Half page Jerry the Jitterbug filler

Genre teen; humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

Half page Newspaper Talk filler

Genre fact

2 page text article "Sleuths In Skirts"

Genre fact
Letters typeset

8 page Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane story "Mrs Superman"

Characters Superman, Jimmy Olsen, Lulu Lyons (intro)
Synopsis Lois dreams she's married to Superman
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Notes Artist corrected from Ruben Moreira by Bob Hughes 2006-03.
Reprinted in Essential Showcase 1956-1959, The (DC, 1992 series) #nn; in Millennium Edition: Showcase 9 (DC, 2001 series) #nn (January 2001); in Showcase Presents: Superman Family (DC, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

2 page Ollie filler

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff