Lois Lane

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Lois Lane in Action Comics v1 #965.

Lois Lane is a female comic character who features in DC Comics.

Contents

Biography

Origin

Lois Lane was the first born daughter of Sam Lane and Ella Lane on their farm in the small, rural community of Pittsdale, Iowa. Even as an infant, young Lois' destiny with intertwined with a man whom the world would one day come to call Superman. One afternoon, baby Lois discovered a strangely shaped toy rattle. She would never know that the device belonged to the alien infant Kal-El, who only recently arrived on Earth. The rattle proved to be of great use however, as she used the indestructible toy to drive away an attacking rattlesnake. (Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane v1 #26)

A few short years later, Lois eventually began attending high school, where she excelled in all of her studies. During her junior year, a large Metropolis newspaper known as the Daily Planet sponsored a nationwide contest for high school students. Whoever succeeded in submitting the best report would one day be awarded a position with the paper. Lois was selected to participate in the contest and she met Kal-El for the first time but she knew him only as mild-mannered adolescent Clark Kent, who had long-since secretly established himself as the hometown hero of Smallville known as Superboy. Lois and Clark competed against one another to win the school contest. Separately they discovered that a criminal named Paul Kory and his gang of thugs had been using sleeping gas on unsuspecting pedestrians in order to rob banks without getting caught. Clark was present during one of their daring escapades, but was forced to feign falling asleep so as to protect his secret identity. Eventually, he snuck away and nabbed the goons as Superboy, but he was unable to prevent Lois from getting the news scoop, thus winning the contest. This was the first step towards Lois' inevitable climb to stardom. (Adventure Comics v1 #128)

Following high school, Lois attended Raleigh College, majoring in journalism. After graduation, she made contact with Perry White, managing editor of the Daily Planet, who kept his promise to Lois and offered her a position as a reporter. In time, Lois became one of the most infamous investigative journalists in the Daily Planet's history. (Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane v1 #17)

Lois had Daily Planet pressman Carl run off a gag paper featuring an expose revealing Clark Kent as Superman in order to play a practical joke on her co-worker. Clark didn’t think it was funny, and he was aghast when Carl came down with appendicitis and without him around to stop production the paper made its way into the hands of the public. Perry White was furious that Lois had ruined his newspaper’s reputation, and wanted to fire her, but she thought he was overreacting. Clark decided to save her job, and told Perry they could play it up as a good natured hoax. Perry liked the idea of saving face and selling papers, so he told Clark to dress as Superman and keep up the act for a while. Perry let his friend Lee Brandon, head of the Third National Bank, in on the hoax, and for a publicity stunt they hired actors to pretend to rob the bank and have Clark save the day. Mobster ”Ironjaw” Grogan was in the Daily Planet building and overheard them. Realizing an opportunity for easy money, he had his gang replace the actors, and robbed the bank. Superman foiled them, then quickly changed back to Clark, and claimed he’d chickened out on the publicity stunt. The Daily Planet then revealed Lois’ article as a hoax, and Clark was happy his secret was still safe. (Superman v1 #20)

Later on, Hitler’s scientist Herr Fange unleashed a sea serpent on the coastal town of Weston, and Lois and Clark went to cover the story. The U.S. destroyer Grella was deployed to investigate, and Lois insisted they stow away to observe the action. Clark bowed out, feigning timidity, and changed to Superman. Superman brought Lois aboard the destroyer, and then locked her in the brig to keep her out of trouble. Fange sicced his sea monsters on the destroyer and Weston, causing havoc, but Superman turned them away. One of the monsters snatched up Lois, and Fange took her hostage, demanding that Superman allow him to destroy a U.S. convoy if he wanted her alive. Lois couldn’t stand to see the convoy destroyed, so she tore away from Fange and leapt into the sea serpents clutches. Superman rescued her and the convoy, while the whistle Fange used to control the monsters malfunctioned, causing them to tear him to pieces. (Superman v1 #20)

Perry White came to send Lois and Clark to investigate a report that Superman was about to jump off the Chandler Suspension Bridge, only to find that it was a publicity stunt cooked up by Herman the Heroic, a wanna-be costumed adventurer who idolized Superman. Lois locked Clark in a zoo cage to keep him out of her way, but when Herman was about to get himself killed, Clark changed into Superman and rescued him. Superman appreciated Herman’s gratitude but told him his foolishness would get him killed. Superman changed back to Clark and reentered the cage where Lois left him, but the cage and the big cats inside were stolen by the Leopard, who had a predilection for jungle cats, and his gang. Superman attacked the gang, but they sicced a number of cats on him, allowing them to make their escape. Lois and Clark covered Herman’s next stunt, wrestling a tiger at the Cosmos Circus. The Leopard replaced the old, toothless tiger with a vicious one, hoping to keep Superman occupied while he committed a robbery. Superman saved Herman again, and together they brought the Leopard to justice. (Superman v1 #20)

Post-Crisis

Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Lois Lane

Clark and Lois had dinner with the Kents to celebrate their anniversary and gave them tickets for a cruise. Later they investigated Cerberus' bombing targets and Clark realized they were all LexCorp subsidiaries. (Superman: The Man of Steel v1 #1) Lois continued her investigation into Cerberus, and found a link to the island nation of Tatamalia that LexCorp was going to financially ruin by taking over their industry. (Superman: The Man of Steel v1 #2) Once Cerberus freed Tattamalia from LexCorp he threatened them and promised to destroy the nation if they did not pay him exorbitant amounts for his services. Lois covered an attempted bombing by Tattamalian rebels that tried to bring attention tot he situation to Metropolis. (Superman: The Man of Steel v1 #3) Lois interviewed the Daily Planet strike organizer Jeb Friedman, but he denied any involvement with Intergang. Lois confronted Clark, upset that she would never know if she was a better reporter because he used his powers to cover stories. Clark agreed to crack the Intergang case without the use of his powers. Angstrom confronted Lois' father Sam lane, who initially encouraged him to join Project Angstrom, the project that made him a monster. Lois tried to hold Angstrom back, but Superman saved the day, returning Angstrom to S.T.A.R. before the radiation in his body spread through the city. Lois wanted to expose the military corruption that led to Angstrom's creation, and although Sam Lane initially thought the public should not know he changed his mind when S.T.A.R. cured Angstrom and covered up any military involvement in Angstrom's creation in the ensuing news stories. (Superman: The Man of Steel v1 #4)

Post-Flashpoint

The New 52

Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.

Rebirth

Overview

Personality and attributes

Daily Planet's star reporter in Lois Lane: A Celebration of 75 Tears v1 #1.

Powers and abilities

Notes

  • Lois Lane was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster where she made her first appearance in Action Comics v1 #1 (June, 1938).
  • In Superman v1 #57 (1949), a Pre-Crisis story showed a possible future in the year 2949 where the people of Earth developed superpowers similar to Superman and Lois's Lane's descendant Lois 4XR had such abilities.
  • In Action Comics v1 #484 (1978), the Earth-Two version of Lois Lane was shown to have a sister named Lucille Tompkins who was the mother of Susie Tompkins.

Alternate Versions

  • In DC Comics Presents Annual v1 #1 (1982), an alternate version of Lois Lane was shown as an inhabitant of Earth-Three. She was a reporter who opposed the criminal tyranny of the Crime Syndicate of America and had long admired the work of Dr. Alexander Luthor where she came to love him. Lois convinced Dr. Luthor to become their world's first superhero using the power of science where he called the Earth-1 and Earth-2 Superman to aid him against Ultraman who was allied with the Lex Luthor of the alternate Earths. She eventually came to marry Dr. Alexander Luthor of her Earth where the pair had a son named Alexander Luthor Jr.
  • In Gotham City Garage v1 (2017), an alternate version of Lois Lane appeared in a setting where Lex Luthor ruled the last city on Earth. She was shown to be operating a secret radio station known as the Frequency alongside Jimmy Olsen.
  • In Nightwing: The New Order v1 #4 (2018), an alternate version of Lois Lane was shown in a world where superpowers had become illegal unless the person was registered with the government. In this possible future, Lois was shown to had become part of the resistance group and wielded a Blue Lantern Power Ring.
  • In Tales of the Dark Multiverse: Death of Superman v1 #1 (2019), an alternate version of Lois Lane existed in one of the potential worlds of the Multiverse. This version witnessed the death of Superman at the hands of Doomsday and was devastated by the loss where she came to resent the world for his demise. Lois travelled to the Fortress of Solitude to return his cape and was informed by the Eradicator that the construct's attempts at restoring Kal-El had failed with Superman truly being dead. With his energies depleting, the Eradicator was desperate to continue his mission with Lois requesting it to use her as a host body even if the empowerment would kill her as she intended to end it all. She aggressively sought stop all crises on the planet where she killed criminals and violently dismantled criminal operations. This saw her killing Lex Luthor, the Joker and even killing Batman when he tried to stop her. She was then confronted by the Cyborg Superman when Kal-El emerged from the life matrix. Hank Henshaw attempted to kill Superman with Lois desperately trying to stop him but she released radiation that killed Superman thus being responsible for his death.

In other media

Television

  • In the DC Animated Universe, Lois Lane made multiple appearances in the shared continuity setting.
    • In Superman: The Animated Series, Lois Lane made her first appearance in the animated television series where she was voiced by actor Dana Delany.
    • In Justice League, Lois Lane appeared in the animated television series where she was voiced again by actor Dana Delany.
  • In Smallville, Lois Lane appeared in the setting of the live-action television series where she was portrayed by actress Erica Durance.
  • In The Batman, Lois Lane made a guest appearance in the animated television series where she was voiced by actor Dana Delany.

Films

  • In All-Star Superman, Lois Lane appeared in the 2011 animated film adaptation of the comic story with her being portrayed by actress Christina Hendricks.
  • In the DC Extended Universe, Lois Lane made a number of appearances in the shared continuity setting:
    • In Man of Steel, Lois Lane made her first appearance in the live-action film where she was portrayed by actress Amy Adams.
    • In Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Lois Lane returned in the live-action film where she was once again portrayed by actress Amy Adams.
    • In Justice League, Lois Lane appeared once more in the live-action film with her being portrayed again by actress Amy Adams.
  • In Superman: Gods and Monsters, Lois Lane appeared in the setting of the animated film where she was voiced by actress Paget Brewster.
  • In Superman: Red Son, Lois Lane appeared in the setting of the 2020 animated film where she was voiced by actress Amy Acker.
  • In Superman: Man of Tomorrow, Lois Lane appeared in the setting of the 2020 animated film where she was voiced by actress Alexandra Daddario.

Video games

  • In Superman: Shadow of Apokolips, Lois Lane appeared in the video game based on the DC Animated Universe where she was voiced by actress Dana Delany.
  • In DC Universe Online, Lois Lane appeared in the setting of the MMORPG where she was voiced by actress Adriene Mishler.
  • In Injustice: Gods Among Us, Lois Lane was referenced in the setting of the fighting action video game.

Appearances

  • Action Comics v1: (1938)
  • Superman v1:
  • Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane v1:
  • Lois and Clark v1:
  • Superman:
  • Lois Lane v1:
  • Action Comics v1:
  • Superman v6:

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