Lois Lane, Girl Reporter

[jlroberson]

A scattering of the LOIS LANE strip from the 40s, with a very early Jimmy and what Clark looks like when you never see him as Superman. I apologize for the quality; they are not my scans. I attempted to sharpen them as best I could. You'll notice that despite the "and Joe" credit, these are most likely(most of them) Wayne Boring.

Comments

[galateus]

So just who is Lois's invisible sibling that has a kid? Unless Lucy gave this one up for adoption before the Silver Age...

[jlroberson]

Lois was just waiting for the child snatchers to pick her up and take her to a wonderful new life eating gruel and cobbling women's shoes. And nobody ever heard from Lucy's misshapen bastard brat again.

Jimmy thought of blackmailing Lucy but proved a wuss in the end.

[arilou_skiff]

Isn't that his life's story?

[kenn_el]

I had a lot of uncles and aunts growing up who weren't actually siblings of my parents. I don't know whether it was cultural or just a product of the time period, but 'Aunt' and 'Uncle' were often just defaults. I wonder if they were attempting a Nancy and Aunt Fritzi thing?

[arilou_skiff]

Same thing here. "Uncle" was pretty much a form of address for any middle-aged or older man when I grew up.

[sistermagpie]

I just love any comic that uses the word "thoid." Extra points if the boy saying it is in a red turtleneck and newsboy cap and has a mutt.

[schala_kid]

A Lois Lane comic that doesn't revolve around trying to trap Superman into a marriage 24/7?! Sign me up!

[tsunamiwombat]

These are probably the extent of the Non Superman marriage related strips.

[nevermore999]

No, this was in the 40's. Idiot!Lois trying to trap supes into mairrage constantly didn't happen until the 50's hit.

[mcbangle]

Ooh, I love this.

So spirits are like bacteria? That 8th strip is disturbing in so many ways.

[lakrids404]

Probably the wise thing to do for Jimmy

[superfangirl1]

I love all of this!

[janegray]

What does thoid mean? I couldn't find anything in the dictionary and with Google.

[sistermagpie]

It's really "third" but it's spelled "thoid" to indicate he's got a Brooklyn-esque accent of that time period.:-)

[janegray]

...Oh, come on.

It's difficult enough to learn English as a second language, what with its words that aren't written the way they sound, and now you go and misspell words on purpose?

You Americans are big bad meanies ;_;

[psychopathicus_rex]

Could've been worse. It could've been 't'oid'. I've seen it written that way often enough.