Love in the Time of Covid-19 SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE "Snoopiest Girl in History!"

As the second wave of the CoronaVirus pandemic rampages across America (and the globe)...

...we return to disease-related romance stories, with this one featuring fiction's most famous girlfriend!

Lois Lane is responsible for CoronaVirus???

That's the only conclusion you can reach from this never-reprinted tale from DC's Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #56 (1965)!

What did writer Edmond Hamilton and illustrator Kurt Schaffenberger know 55 years ago that we are only now discovering???

Note: While comics have long been pre-teen/teen male-oriented, romance comics (and Lois Lane fits into that category) have been pre-teen/teen/young adult female-oriented!

So why make the heroine in a female-oriented book such a manipulative bitch?

I don't know, but it was successful enough to keep the book running from 1958 to 1974, with the strip continuing for another few years in Superman Family, which combined Lois, Jimmy Olsen, Supergirl, and a new series Mr & Mrs Superman, which featured the married 1940s Clark and Lois of Earth-Two!

Next Week:

Another tale combining Disease and Desire!

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Lois Lane

A Celebration of 75 Years

Super-Love with SUPERGIRL "Supergirl's Jilted Boy Friends" Conclusion

When Last We Left the Girl of Steel...

...evil android Brainiac plans to defeat Supergirl by making her fall in love with a robot imbued with the lady-killer charm and persona of famed space criminal Kimor!

Pretending to be Kimberly O'Ryan, a transfer student to Stanhope University, the robot meets Linda Danvers (whom Brainiac thinks is just a close friend of Supergirl), seduces her, then treats her like dirt!
When Kara meets Kim as Supergirl, he treats her as badly as he treated her Linda alter-ego!
Brainiac puts the final part of his plan into operation, forcing the robot to destroy itself in front of her, leading Kara to believe her actions forced the apparent "suicide".
But the plan goes awry...

Trivia: This was the only Supergirl two-part short story in Adventure that appeared as the cover feature both times!

Supergirl would not meet Brainiac again in pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity, though she has battled him since!

Note the ad for Jerry Lewis meeting Wonder Woman, who was already de-powered by writer/editor/artist Mike Sekowsky...who was soon to take over the Supergirl series in Adventure Comics!

(You can read the never-reprinted team-up between Amazon and idiot HERE!)

You'll see how Sekowsky handles a Supergirl love story on two weeks!

It sure ain't like this!

But Next Week:
Another Never-Seen-in-America Tale of Intergalactic Love...or is It Just Lust...with Agar-Agar!

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Supergirl: the Silver Age Omnibus

Volume 2

(which ends just before the stories we're re-presenting, but includes Supergirl's first battle with Brainiac!)

Super-Love with SUPERGIRL "Supergirl's Jilted Boy Friends" Part 1

We Have Already Seen...

...actually, the synopsis is conveniently-provided on pages 3 & 4!

Now that's a side of the Girl of Steel we haven't previously seen!

Is Kim doomed?
Will Supergirl prove the adage about "a woman scorned" correct?
And what of Brainiac?
The answers to these, and other questions will be provided...

Friday

when Brainiac and Kimor learn that payback's a super-bitch!

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Supergirl: the Silver Age Omnibus

Volume 2
(which ends just before the stories we're re-presenting, but includes Supergirl's first battle with Brainiac!)

Super-Love with SUPERGIRL "Romance Machine" Conclusion

When Last We Left the CW's Favorite Superheroine...

...evil android Brainiac plans to defeat Supergirl by making her fall in love with a robot imbued with the lady-killer charm and persona of famed space criminal Kimor!

Pretending to be Kimberly O'Ryan, a transfer student to Stanhope University, the robot meets Linda Danvers, whom Brainiac thinks is just a close friend to Supergirl!

(The cover copy is misleading, indicating Brainiac and Kimor know Linda is Supergirl!)

Actually, you lucky readers only have to wait until

Thursday

when Brainiac and Kimor learn that payback's a super-bitch!

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Supergirl: the Silver Age Omnibus

Volume 2
(which ends just before the stories we're re-presenting, but includes Supergirl's first battle with Brainiac!)

Super-Love with SUPERGIRL "Romance Machine" Part 1

It's not just another story of Kara Zor-El's severely-screwed up romantic life...

...though it sure seems like it is, at the beginning!

Isn't it weird villains never try to pull a similar plot with Superman?

Though there's no footnote, Supergirl beat Brainiac in DC's Action Comics #339 (1966)!

Amazing how an android can carry a grudge.for years until DC's Adventure Comics #388 (1970)!

Is Brainiac right?

Can the Girl of Steel be manipulated like a puppet by a good-looking guy?

Be back TOMORROW to find out!

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TENDER LOVE STORIES "Spark of my Heart!"

We end the Summer vacation season as we began...

...with a never-reprinted tale about a guy, a girl, and gearshifts!

Written by May Sterling, penciled by Kurt Schaffenberger, and inked by John Celardo, this tale from Skywald's Tender Love Stories #4 (1971) was the final original story from the short-lived company's longest-running title!

While Schaffenberger and Celardo were both long-time pros who began their careers back in the Golden Age of comics, this is May Sterling's only writing credit!

Schaffenberger, in the 1950s and 60s, was DC's "go to" artist for female characters with long stints on Lois Lane, Supergirl, and Mary Marvel as well as occasional assignments on Wonder Woman and Mighty Isis!

Oddly, he had very few romance comic assignments over his long career...

Is "May Sterling" a pseudonym, or was she a comics neophyte who went on to other things after this one script?

Sadly, we'll never know...

Next Week:

We don't know yet what we'll present, but we can guarantee...

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Agonizing Love

The Golden Age of Romance Comics