Here’s a full-page DC Comics house
ad promoting the first issue of Superman’s
Girl Friend Lois Lane (March-April 1958). On the Curt Swan cover,
Lois, flying on her broomstick with the powers of a witch, gloats to the Man of
Tomorrow about her superhuman abilities.
Especially unsettling to
adolescent boys was the recurring suggestion that Lois might become more powerful than Superman. In the
mid-2oth century, being physically defeated by a girl was said to be a terrible fate, you know.
Interesting to think that more
people will now have heard of “Lois Lane” than “Yul Brynner.” Brynner had
shaved his head for The King and I, a
musical performance that earned him two Tony awards and an Oscar.
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