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Issue Details

Issue #41
Published May 1963
Frequency monthly with the exception of Mar, June, Sept, Dec
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "Superman's Romance with Lana Lane!"

Characters Lois Lane; Lana Lang; Superman; Lana Lane
Genre superhero
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Letters Ira Schnapp

1 page public service announcement "Countdown on Excellence"

Characters Jerry; Jerry's father
Synopsis Jerry gets a lecture from his father on the importance of doing every job right.
Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes Inside front cover; published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly. Later appears in DC comics cover-dated March 1967.

10 page Lois Lane story "The Devil and Lois Lane!"

Characters Lois Lane; Superman; Jimmy Olsen; Lance Jason; Perry White; Lucy Lane; Lana Lang (cameo)
Synopsis When Superman overhears Lois tell her college boyfriend, Lance Jason, that she would sell her soul to the devil for a chance to marry Superman, he decides to teach her a lesson and masquerades as Satan, offering Lois her dream marriage in exchange for her soul.
Genre superhero
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Reprinted in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #86 (October 1968)

Half page Lois Lane story "Winners of Lois Lane Hair-Style Contest"

Synopsis Results of a contest announced in Lois Lane Annual #1; over 20,000 votes received; the winning 6,551 votes were for keeping Lois's hairstyle the same.
Genre superhero
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger (illustrations)
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger (illustrations)
Notes One indexer felt that one of the drawings resembled actor Teri Hatcher, who was to portray Lois Lane in the 1993-97 television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

Half page Varsity Vic story "Oh-oh, a damsel in distress."

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

8 page Lois Lane story "The Super-Suitor of Soomar!"

Characters Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Super-Male [Irn Brimba]; Crystal Ganyrog; Superman (cameo)
Synopsis Lois visits the planet Soomar where she meets a girl reporter much like herself, except that she resists the attentions of Soomar's super-hero, Super-Male.
Genre superhero
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger

Half page Letters to Lois letters page

Script Mort Weisinger ?
Letters typeset
Notes Letters submitted by Bobby Pelzel; Herman Cummings; Janice Leeland; Fred Hunter; Cathy Willard

7 page Lois Lane story "Superman's Romance with Lana Lane!"

Characters Lois Lane; Lana Lang; Superman; Lana Lane
Synopsis While visiting Superman's Fortress, Lois and Lana find a picture of Superman proposing to a girl who looks like both of them. He tells them the story, which they have forgotten, of how they were temporarily merged into one girl a few years earlier.
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Reprinted in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #113