Super-Love SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE "Super-Bride's Secret!"

When Last We Left an Increasingly-Desperate Lois Lane...

...she had lost a catfight to Diana Prince, the then-powerless Wonder Woman...who has, apparently, regained her powers...and then some!
And Superman's plans to wed Wonder Woman are going "full speed ahead"!

Well, at least it wasn't a tacky fake romance, like Batman pulled with the aid of Batgirl and Wonder Woman as we showed HERE, HERE, and HERE!

Several points...

a) Why didn't Superman realize the woman he was kissing (several times) was wearing a mask?
He does have super-senses, right?

b) How was Ar-Ual going to put Wonder Woman into the Phantom Zone?

The criminal escaped from the Zone through a rift (which had re-sealed) and the only Phantom Zone projector on Earth is in Superman's Fortress of Solitude!
The Superman robots and possibly even the tiny Kandorians in their bottle city might notice an intruder!
and, c) I don't believe we've ever seen a version of Red Kryptonite that temporarily removes a Kryptonian's super-powers!

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Super-Love SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE "Superman-Wonder Woman Team!"

We Conclude Our Month of Super-Love with...

...Lois Lane facing off against Wonder Woman for the hand of Superman!

But, this is a story set during the era when Princess Diana didn't have her Amazon abilities and powers!

Who will prevail?

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To Be Continued, on Thursday, at Our "Sister" Blog, Heroines!

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Written by Robert Kanigher, penciled by Irv Novick, and inked by Mike Esposito, this tale from DC's Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #93 (1969) has never been included in any Lois Lane hardcover or trade paperback reprints!
But it has been reprinted...in a couple of Wonder Woman collections!

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Super-Love BRAVE AND THE BOLD "In the Coils of the CopperHead" Conclusion

When Last We Left our Horny Heroines and Hapless Hero...

Batman's somewhat-silly plan to make the crafty CopperHead believe he was leaving a near-priceless artifact unguarded due to being distracted by Wonder Woman and Batgirl fighting over his affections has backfired spectacularly as both super-heroines are now totally-enamored of the Caped Crusader and the villain has made off with his prize!

I'd like to believe that writer Bob Haney was given the concept by editor Murray Boltanoff, not that Haney himself came up with the plot.
Note: editor Boltanoff was not a "continuity cop".
Many of the characters appearing in his books acted out of character from time to time!
This was artist Bob Brown's first time drawing Batman, obviously impressing artist-turned Editorial Director Carmine Infantino enough to move him over to the Batman and Robin strip in Detective Comics when the Bob Kane Studio's contract ended in early 1968!
BTW, Brown was the illustrator of the Detective Comics story that revamped Batman from campy tv-era Bright Knight back to the original concept of nocturnal Dark Knight as shown HERE!
Brown stayed on the title until he left DC in 1973, going to Marvel, where he ended up on Daredevil and the Black Widow a few months after the tale we told last week was published!
Ironically, Brown also illustrated one part of the two-issue introduction of Marvel's villainous CopperHead during this run, thereby being one of only three artists to create same-named (but not same-powered) villains at both DC and Marvel!

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Super-Love BRAVE AND THE BOLD "In the Coils of the CopperHead" Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

I'll let The Narrator fill you in on what's going on, since I find it, well, quite silly!

(But remember, it was 1968, the era of the Batman TV series...)

To Be Concluded...Tomorrow!

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Written by Bob Haney, penciled by Bob Brown, and inked by Mike Esposito, this story from DC's Brave and the Bold #78 (1968) shows a fascinating difference between DC and Marvel when it came to Super-Love.

As you saw in last week's Daredevil-Black Widow-Hawkeye triangle, the emotions were sincere and heartfelt...if a tad extreme and hyperbolic, much as most teens experience romance!
OTOH, DC's approach (at least in the superhero books) is to treat romance as yukky and inconvenient, with girls/women being total ditzes!
In contrast, both Marvel's and DC's romance books were remarkably-similar in approach and content!
Apparently, Marvel felt both the romance and superhero titles had a similarly-sophisticated audience, whereas DC believed the superhero books skewed younger than the romance titles!

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Super-Love BRAVE AND THE BOLD "In the Coils of the CopperHead" Part 1

Last Week We Presented a Triangle Between Marvel Heroes and a Heroine!

This week, it's a triangle between DC Heroines over a Hero!

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Written by Bob Haney, penciled by Bob Brown, and inked by Mike Esposito, this story from DC's Brave and the Bold #78 (1968) came at an unusual time.

Batgirl was about to be introduced on the third season of the classic Batman TV series.
And, the producers of that series had done a test reel (not as long as a pilot episode, about 10-15 minutes) for a Wonder Woman series.
Had this story, created in late 1967-early 1968, been meant as an intro to promote and tie-in the two series?
Since the WW series wasn't picked-up, we'll never know...

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HEART & SOUL "Gigolo"

When you play at love, you may get played...

...as this never-reprinted sob-story from Mikeross' Heart & Soul #1 (1954) proves.

Pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito.

The writer is unknown.

The team of Andru & Esposito worked on numerous projects, including a long run on Wonder Woman in the 1960s.

They also had their own comics company in the early 1950s called MikeRoss Publications which published only four titles, three of which were romance comics!

You can see other tales from the same title, Heart & Soul, that this story appeared in, HERE, HERE, and HERE!

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