Super-Love SHOWCASE "Lois Lane in 'Mrs Superman!' "

For the rest of the summer, we're going to do one of our favorite topics...

...Super-Love, beginning with the greatest love story in comics history...Lois Lane and Superman/Clark Kent!

This particular tale is from DC's Showcase #9 (1957), the first of two tryout issues before "Superman's Girl Friend" Lois received her solo title the next year.
Note: "Superman's Pal" Jimmy Olsen already received his own book several years earlier...without any test issues!
Just sayin'...

Written by Otto (Supergirl) Binder and illustrated by Al Plastino, one of the two primary Superman artists of the era (the other was Wayne Boring), this cover-featured story was typical of the type of tales that would be featured in the intrepid female reporter's own book through the end of the Silver Age.
But you really gotta ask; what audience was this book aimed at?
DC had a thriving romance comics line aimed at pre-teen/teen girls, but this doesn't seem like the sort of book they'd want to read!
And it certainly wasn't the sort of thing the young male audience would pick up.
Yet it sold well enough to continue from 1958 until 1974, when it was combined with Jimmy Olsen and Supergirl into a $1 100-page Superman Family anthology which ran each of them in new stories along with reprints of all three characters' earlier tales.

Next Week:
Another tale of Super-Love!

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Lois Lane

A Celebration of 75 Years

Beach Read THEY ALL CAME TO DIE! "Chapter 5...An End to Madness"

It Has All Lead Up to This...

...and the question is, who will Judith chose (although the pool of potential choices seems minimal) presuming she even survives...

Didn't see that coming, did you?

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Showcase Presents

Secrets of Sinister House

...which reprints the four issues of Sinister House of Secret Love, this book's sister gothic romance title, but in black and white!

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Beach Read THEY ALL CAME TO DIE! "Chapter 4...Search for a Killer"

So Far, Two Out of Six Have Died...

...ironically, the two who knew each other before being drawn to this isolated house, a married couple serving as the caretakers!

The remaining four, initially strangers to each other, are still in danger from one among their group who is, in fact, the murderer!

But who???

We ask...as we did yesterday..."Is Frank, the man Judith is falling for, the murderer?

All will be revealed in the conclusion...

TOMORROW!

One Hint: All is Not as it Appears to Be!

And, as usual, we promise...

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Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire

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Beach Read THEY ALL CAME TO DIE! "Chapter 3...Murder Strikes Again"

We Have Already Seen...

...a group of six people, brought to a remote island by an unseen rich recluse are all accused of being murderers!

Ironically, one of them has been murdered, and Judith Freemont may be next...

Is Frank, the man Judith is falling for...the murderer?

Be Here Tomorrow, When We Might...or Might Not...Find Out!

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Beach Read THEY ALL CAME TO DIE! "Chapter 2...Death Plays Host"

When Last We Left Our Heroine...

Judith Freemont and three other people are invited to a remote island by rich recluse John Ames.

When they arrive, Ames is nowhere to be found, and only a caretaker and his wife are there.
At dinner, the guests' place settings all include notes accusing each of them of...murder!
Plus, it turns out that the caretaker couple are also accused, but unindicted, murderers as well!
One of the guests, reporter Frank Morton, takes serious interest in Judith, expressing concern for her well-being and kissing her before the guests all go to bed (in their own bedrooms)!

Then, as often happens in these tales, there's a scream and someone wakes up dead...

You'd think Judith would learn, since every time she kisses Frank, someone dies!

To Be Continued...TOMORROW!

You'll Cry Your Eyes Out If You Miss It!

This never-reprinted story by writer Jack Oleck and artist Don Heck from DC's Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion #5 (1972).

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Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire

by Neil Gaiman and Shane Oakley

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