Meet SUPERWOMAN | Lois Lane
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- Superman had another female counterpart before Supergirl and that was Superwoman who was most often in the early days Lois Lane. Just how did this intrepid reporter get Super Powers and what does it mean for her relationship with Clark Kent and the man of steel? Stay tuned to Casually Comics to find out!
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Lois: “I will like you once you become like Superman, which is never.” Clark: 👁👄👁
That was pretty savage.
The irony is that later on (1950s), Lois is certain that Clark is Superman. She had made it her mission in life to get the truth out of him. In one story, Superman is exposed to red kryptonite and it makes his hair and nails grow. Since his hair and nails never grew since he has been on Earth, he is looking pretty wild right now. His hair and nails are invulnerable so with no way to cut his hair, Lois is sure she's got him. When Clark shows up with the long hair and nails she will bust him. Superman beats her by calling Supergirl (who the general public did not know about yet) and Krypto to the Fortress of Solitude and they use their hit heat vision to give him a shave and manicure. Clark goes back to the Daily Planet looking normal as Lois racks her brain trying to figure out how he did it (again).
@@schonnj Savage AF
@@crazedvole These Silver age adventures get more and more chukle inducing the further I follow Sasha into this rabbit hole of self censorship out of fear that the government will arrest them for drawing stuff...
"I'm afraid it's a brain concussion..."
Well, at least it's not a leg concussion - I hear they're deadly.
Clark Kent used the old threat he always fears, he told Lois that she being Superwoman would be the story of the century, just like if some one wrote the same about him. Turn about is fair play. On the show" the adventures of Superman" the last episode# 104, was titled ".All that glitters" . In the story Lois and Jimmy somehow have a shared dream. They both have.powers like Superman.They fight crooks , and can fly. But at the end they find its only a.dream. When they Meet Clark and tell him about it, Jimmy asks Clark" Gee , Mr. Kent don't you wish you had power like Superman?." And Clark says" Don't we all., Jimmy, don't we all". That was the last episode,
Also: "You've just recovered from a delicate brain operation" that required no stitches, no bandages, and we didn't even cut your hair. Went in through your nostrils.
@@ScreamingScallop Why did Lois show up for work right after the blood transfusion with Superman?.didnt she need recovery time? a doctor's note? .How is Kryptonian blood compatable with Human blood?.
So in both Marvel and DC universes, blood transfusions transfer superpowers? Sweet.
That was other days
apparently superpowers are kinda like aids
Except if you're a Spider.
The parallel with She-Hulk is uncanny.
Or cancer. I guess it varies from case to case.
I'm surprised at how much I'm digging the costume design in this one. The fitted pants and mini skirt combo with the sleeveless top is a look.
Completely agree
i also really like the "S shield" in the shape of a heart!!
Yeah. It’s very good. Feminine but doesn’t get in the way. It is different from superman’s and has a recognizable silhouette.
Then again they are wearing capes so, I don’t think fabric getting in the way was ever a problem.
Right? And the loose fit on the sleeveless top is a nice touch. I think the skirt might just be built into it, too. If Perry keeps being a dick she could always become a fashion designer.
It’s so weird to see Clark begging Lois for some but wasn’t this the same time period that Superman wouldn’t give her the time of day? Clark & Supes are really presenting as two different people.
You should read K-Metal for Krypton to know his real feelings for her.
7:09 Lois dreams of upskirt shots of herself. Now that's confidence.
I first read this story in Les Daniel's book COMIX: A HISTORY OF COMIC BOOKS IN AMERICA (1971) when I was in high school, and Superwoman's upskirt caused a bit of, er...public discomfort (I was in class at the time!😊)...still, my favorite book!
Ahead of the times close to the Manga gold standard but not quite there yet.
Once you associate with confident, out-spoken, assertive supermen, you never go back.
Wow, this was actually a better story than I expected. Although, it never ceases to amaze me how in the Golden Age they always jumped straight to a marriage proposal. Never coffee or dinner, just a straight up 'will you marry me'?😂
Oh and 'lasagne for one', was that a Flight of the Conchords reference?
why yes, yes it was.
Lois was like “it’s business time”
perfect
Different social morays.
@@CasuallyComics nice! You just don't see enough Conchords references these days. I'm Not Crying is one of my favourite songs!
That is some Grade A costuming. They really knew how to do iconic costumes back in the day.
It might actually be the best of all of the Superwoman or Supergirl outfits.
Louis Lane, one of the earliest fictional characters to meet Truck-kun. Due to it being such an early meeting, Truck-kun hadn’t quite figured out how to isekai her. As such, she was hospitalized with massive injuries.
Video Suggestion: History of Lois Lane - Shades of Stalking.
( Not joking, would really enjoy a Golden thru Modern talk about Lois.)
I definitely like the idea of an overview of the evolution of Lois Lane over the decades.
Also one of Lana Lang (including the shocking one where Superman told her off and left her hammering her fists on a glass door, slowly falling to her knees).
And for that matter, one of Clark Kent, as he moved from wide-eyed goofball chasing Lois like a puppy who licked the hand that smited him to Yupwardly-mobile hunk admired by his peers and . . . "considered" by Lois.
Agreed
I was just about to suggest this, but Mike beat me to this!
Agreed, this would be amazing.
I like how All-Star Superman pretty much carried that idea, and bits of the costume back into their version of Lois Superwoman.
Seeing this Superwoman compared to the Crime Syndicate shows how far down the Lane her character has become.
Down the Lane.... the Louis Lane?
Okay, I'll see myself out.
I see what you did there 😏
Please tell me that pun was 100% intended.
I love how fun you make everything
Definitely. Sasha is the Ellen DeGeneres of comics history.
Better a "brain concussion" than an "elbow concussion" or a "spleen concussion". From what I hear, they are tragic.
"Concussion" is a word meaning heavy blow. It's not specific to brain injuries.
@@SD_Marc Incorrect. A concussion is specifically defined as brain trauma induced by the brain colliding hard against the skull.
So Stan Lee's last Marvel character She-Hulk, has the same origin as Superwoman...
Before that, in the 1970s, you had Spitfire getting her powers as a result of a transfusion from the (android) Human Torch in The Invaders. Go back to the Golden Age and the Whizzer got his super-speed from a transfusion of mongoose blood. Powerful stuff, blood.
Exactly
@@dlee827 Blood, and later, DNA!
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Listen, mice are scary. 😁😄😁
@Gunsandrosalina Padtwo he does...
Lois should've ADDED glasses when she made her super costume.
I really hate the "It was all a dream" trope: that's the laziest plot resolution ever created.
You have to remember this is when the trope was created. It wasn't old yet.
True, but it allowed for some wacky stories. It eats it here because it practically holds up a banner that reads "EVERYTHING FROM THIS POINT IS A DREAM."
I hated that about inception. What do you mean the entire movie was a dream?! What a waste of time!
All jokes aside. I agree.
In the golden (and even silver) age many superhero issues were dreams or imaginary stories. It was a way for the writers to do something different with the characters and then revert everything to the status quo at the end.
Sasha discusses this a bit in her previous video about the origin of the famous "Batman slaps Robin" meme, which was an imaginary story.
The overuse of this led to the "Not a dream! Not an imaginary story!" caption on many covers, since readers eventually became aware of how a crazy image on a cover would inevitably be resolved as "it was all a dream so it doesn't matter".
@@blackrazer22 Nah, I'm pretty sure this was an old cliche even by the '40s.
Here’s where Lois asks Superman if he cares for her. Ironically. Superman tells her he’s gonna go discover Power Girl. She’s mad hot!
Of course this was a dream. Superman gives blood? How do they puncture his skin to get the needle in?
During the golden age, superman's power levels tender to fluctuate according to plot neccessity. Like, in one story he could be faster than light, and in another, too slow to stop a bullet
I remember some Silver Age story where Superman gives a transfusion. Since no earth-made needle could get through his skin, he opens up the puncture himself using his Kryptonian super-fingernail. (Kind of like the way he had to shave once he reached puberty; he fired his heat vision at a reflective piece of metal from the ship that brought him to Earth and singed off the stubble. It's a cute stunt but I have trouble picturing him do this every morning before heading off to the Planet.)
dadoctah so,he claws his way down to a vein? 😂
@@dadoctah I always figured that there would be a needle dipped in liquid Kryptonite to weaken the skin enough to puncture through while at the same time not having any long-term effects on Superman.
I'd like to see a list of all the times Lois got super powers. You might also do the same for Jimmy.
And Lana Lang.
@@toddnolastname4485 Lana Lang, with the help of wearing a special ring, became Insect Queen in the mid-1960s. She saved Superboy's life once, and made occasional appearances with the Legion Of Super Heroes in "Adventure Comics" (I think).
@@toddnolastname4485 And Perry White (I can think of at least three occasions off the top of my head). And Smallville High School doucheweasel "Bash" Bashford. And Clark Kent (on more than one occasion, he was seen using his powers, and had to pretend that something or other had "given" him powers, which he later "lost") . . . .
Those would all be very long lists.
My favorite Jimmy Olson was the Giant Turtle-Boy Jimmy. (The Silver Age was SO weird!)
First, I need to hear about Lex's son becoming Darkseid's avatar.
Second, I've always wanted an equal partner.
The character's origin was presented in Crisis on Infinite Earths. When he became the avatar of Darkseid, I don't know. Would be an interesting story, because he went from a baby or toddler to an adult really quickly, with no real explanation. Other than, "he came from this other Earth".
@@toddnolastname4485 The Alexander Luthor, Jr. from Crisis on Infinite Earths was the son of Alexander Luthor, pre-Crisis Earth Three's only hero and Lois Lane, interpid Daily Planet reporter. His growth from infant to teenager was part of the journey from the doomed Earth Three as seen in the first issues of CoIE. Alexander escaped with the Earth Two Superman, Lois Lane and the Earth Prime Superboy into a paradise dimension at the End of Crisis. Alexander became the antagonist of Infinite Crisis and was killed by the Joker at the end of IC.
The New 52 child of Alexander Luthor, aka Mazahs and Lois Lane, the Earth-3 counterpart of Wonder Woman, became the avatar of Darkseid.
I never realized Sigel and Shuster were such good writers
There’s always been strong female characters. This tells me that the writers were ahead of their time with this version of Lois.
Golden age comics were quite dialog heavy. Maybe there's a piece you could do on the evolution of comics (if you haven't.)
probably in a effort to make them more of a reading material rather than looked at or viewed as simply as a picture book, right??
Anyone else think about how high those ceilings must be for Lois to lift a metal cabinet fully above her head with arms stretched? wow
Plz do a video on the comic where Lois leaves the daily planet and opens a diner, sounds really funny
Please do The confusing history of Superwoman!!!!
Louis got isekai'd into a world where she has Superman powers. Got it.
Go, Go Truck-kun!
How did they get a needle into Superman???. What blood.type is he?, how did it work?.
And in the 1930's Popeye cartoons, if Olive Oyl said she didn't like Popeye, Popeye would cry like a wimp.
I never knew I needed a thought bubble that says IDEA until now.
The blood transfusion aspect of Lois becoming Superwoman is exactly the same as She-Hulk’s origin. It’s also reminiscent of Lois becoming super-powered in All-Star Superman. That wasn’t a blood transfusion, but it was a serum based on Superman’s DNA.
I actually would love this to be permanent and not a one shot. I love this Louise lol
Lois "I wanna marry Superman and have his babiez!" Lane, ladies and gents
Be real. You would, too.
I want a Quark's shirt like that.
Reminds me of an old Wonder Woman story where Steve Trevor received super powers, and his main objective was to force Diana to marry him... The "golden age" was a strange time...
It was me barry!
Now looking forward to a DCU retcon version of Dr Skowl.
I like how it was Lois' arms that were being shown off in her outfit... women with strong arms just have a certain je ne sais quoi
We need a comprehensive overview of Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen. Talk about two characters who most symbolize the traits of their particular era. Both Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen and Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane are totally crazy
I enjoyed this video. Lois Lane has gone through quite a bit changes over the years. I often wondered when reading the older comics, what Lois would do, if Superman ever stopped pursuing her as Clark and was just like, "She wants Superman, fine! I'll be with her as Superman!"
She married him in the golden age. This one.
Is that a Quark's Bar t-shirt mocked in the Cheers style? Haaa! Too cool! Also fun video!
"My fine feathered friend"? Didn't the 60's Penguin use to say that in the Batman tv show?
All the time. The Burgess Meredith Penguin was all about the bird references.
My mom, who was born in 1920, used that expression all the time. It was a Tom & Jerry cartoons reference. The Penguin used to call his henchmen his "fine feathered FIENDS."
@@jayzonely There is a Tom & Jerry short titled "Fine Feathered Friend," but the expression has been around way longer than that.
She actually said "fine-feathered friend", not "fine feathered friend." Indicating the feathers were fine, not the friend. Which makes me wonder if this had some meaning in the 40s we no longer know about.
EDIT: Aha - mystery solved!
www.word-detective.com/2007/07/birds-of-a-feather/comment-page-1/
I always like when people in comics get super powers and there first thought is “hey I need a costume now”
Cause with great power comes with great responsible wardrobes!!! LOL
This was a very interesting story please keep doing this it's very well researched and we'll done!
Loved this video. I wrote a paper about how the comics code effected Supes, Bats, and Wondy, but I HAD to include a big part about Lois. This is great!
Sasha, there is a DC 1950s character, Joanie Swift, that you may want to cover at some point. She was a fairly progressive character, but Johnny Quick's attitude towards her... was not. Nor did the story itself (from Adventure Comics #181) treat her all that well, either.
This was a really good analysis of Lois and Clark's perspective of each other and their behaviors in the real world and in Lois' dream.
Hahahahaha! "Romantic byplay" is now a solid part of my working vocabulary. And as often as I drop it in -- without fitting the context -- "Will you marry me? I accept."
Ha, that opening splash reminded me that Joe Shuster drew bondage porn for underground comics in the '50s as a side hustle.
Timely is what Marvel was at first previously known as in the wartime and maybe previously too.I first saw this Story of Lois Lane as Superwoman in Comix:A History of Comic Books in America during Thanksgiving time of 1974.This book was left behind in an apartment of my Father's and a few or so years ago I bought another copy of this at my local comics store this one has the outer cover while the one found previously doesn't have the outer cover.
I hope we get this in the Superman and Lois TV Show.
The Quark's shirt is awesome!!!! Geek cred at it's best or whatever the kids say. Lol
That costume IS tip-top. The Super-Heart logo is a great idea.
Former Marvel Bullpenner and DC/Vertigo editor eher. Just chiming in to say how much I enjoy your show. I am utterly addicted! Please continue not to be be boring!
40's Lois from the Fleischer Studios cartoons will always be my favorite version.
The Fleischer version influences the original creators a lot i believe.
Come to Quark’s
Quark’s is fun
Don’t walk... run!
Has anyone else noticed that one of Superman's first super-deeds was to terrorize a wife-beater until he fainted, while one of Superwoman's was to reason with a (hardy-har) husband-abuser until she agreed to be rational?
"Just yeeted right out of the panel...." Lolz! Sasha, you are low key hilarious! Love your chanel. Keep it up!
I love your take on these stories. When I read them I was a kid and there wasn't alot to do in rural USA for a 10 yr old in 1970 so I dove deep into Superman. DC character development was a priority even though they were NUTS. Along with watching Underdog etc it's a wonder we're sane at all.
Loved this vid. As a Lois fan this was just what I needed. That said, if this were to ever be canon (and not just a...won't spoil it) they'll need to take a page from Batgirl (Barbara ver.) playbook and set it up a bit better.
Your take on these older story lines and characters absolutely makes me laugh! I love it. Keep it up.
Great video, Sasha! I found it enormously entertaining. I'd not seen that early version of Superwoman Lois Lane. Interesting how that trope of Super-Lois was picked up again and again decades later, even on Smallville, and in comicbooks by DC just about ten years ago.
That costume was kinda lit! "Alternate Lois," is always a hoot since there are so many of them. I personally really liked "Lois as Red Tornado on Earth 2," during the New 52, a way better book than most people expected. She was also Superwoman for a hot second during Rebirth after she and Lana (and Kong Kenan, sorta) absorbed the energy from the dead New 52 Superman. She ate it and Lana become Superwoman. That book was actually pretty good, too. Love your channel!
I need a history of lois lane please
That shirt is, in a word, AWESOME!!
I like Clark's plaid suit!
I like also how every super hero knows how to see.
That was pretty cool, I'd never heard of that story before. There is one similar to it that I have read though. I can try and find the issue #'s if you like. It was another dream sequence for Lois and it's very much oddball and slapstick. She dreams that she is Power Girl and Clark (glasses and all) is Power Man. They both have yellow costumes with a large "P" on their chests. Lois and Clark get powers and Lois takes charge of the situation and has to tell a bumbling super-powered Clark what he should be doing.
It was Superman #125 (1958)
Fascinating! But I still want to hear more about the Silver age Superwoman Kristin Wells, including from the Elliott s Maggin novels, and her modern New 52 interpretation!
Great video! You should do an in-depth review of the DC Rebirth Superwoman series. It really doesn't get the love it deserves.
This was amazing. Thank you so much for doing this. Golden head superman bottoms off. Which you be willing to be on a podcast. I’m a bottom of my heart. Thank you for being my I’ve got the comics are awesome picture
The way you read it cracked me up, and made the silliness and sexism of the intent more blatant. I left off my GA Superman reading at Action #55, but I assume this will be in the next trade if it gets made if it hasn't been already (you should do a video on how annoying it is that DC keeps relaunching its reprints instead of finishing). You also reminded me of the time Daredevil intentionally disguised himself as Thor with plastic muscles to compensate for his leaner build. That was kind of wacky. It was a ploy to make Cobra and Mr. Hyde Daredevil opponents.
The Sandman had Dian Belmont as his partner and confidant, but she was out the door with the end of 1941 with her spot taken by her nephew starting in January 1942. I guess they thought she was hurting sales, and the character did last until 1945 without her. Doctor Fate had that, too, but he got cut off even earlier. The Flash kind of had that, but he was pretty sexist by today's standards. Joan Williams went to the same college, and everyone at the school knew about his powers (and let him use his powers to get them trophies, a serious SA no-no), but later he would have to remind her not to call him "Flash" in public. as though that weren't a common nickname. He lasted longer than anybody in the Golden Age except the trinity, Green Arrow, and Aquaman, so they may have been right about what their audience wanted.
I also preferred '40s Lois over '50s Lois for a lot of the same reasons you described. In much the same way, I preferred Phyllis Coate's portrayal of Lois over that of Noel Neill, and of pretty much every other actor who ever played Lois-- because she's believable as a tough, hard-hitting career woman, in both authorial concept and artistic design, right from the get-go. This is not to say that the others didn't do very well, but IMO Phyllis was the best and most believable as Lois (and as Panther Girl in the earlier black & white serial movies).
Also, please consider the fact that '40s Lois was, in part, originally based on a woman named Joanne Carter, whom Superman's original artist, Joe Schuster, hired, as the artist's model for Lois, and whom the original writer, Jerry Siegel, later married. Both men clearly had a lot of RESPECT for this woman as well as for the character, which is something I think the '50s Superman writers may have lacked, or had to a much lesser degree. As far as, y'know, such things go, in the headsets of men from that long-gone, anachronistic time period.
For yet another take on Lois, if you haven't already seen it, check out the Superduperman story in 1953's Mad Comics #4. It's a blast! Here's hoping you might even decide to do a video about THAT! I would *really* love to see *that!* Thanks.
Here, BTW, is a quick ref. list of places where the Superduperman story has been reprinted, from the Grand Comics Database: www.comics.org/issue/93804/
One of my favorite WTF Silver Age comics is Superman #151. One segment was about Lois and Lana scheming a highly publicized fake duel to the death in order to force Superman to make a choice of whom to marry between the two.
Clark actually catches on to this and makes robot duplicates of Lois and Lana (yes, Superman regularly made robots during this time) in order to "teach those girls a lesson."
Lois accidentally "kills" the Lana robot in one location while Lana accidentally "kills" the Lois robot in another, while Superman conspires in Jimmy to hide the robot bodies.
So in a nutshell: what looks like an attempted double homicide by Lana and Lois is actually four separate accounts of fraud from Lois, Lana, and Superman. With Jimmy as an accomplice.
This issue was wild.
Great vid! Definitly agree with your evaluation of how Lois changed over the years would love a confusing history of Superwoman vid I know so little about her
great stuff .....love these golden age issues....you really give us a new take on it
Sasha love how u review comics and making it fun for us to enjoy thank you :)
I'm enjoying the Lois marriage stories. Having seen this Super-Lois video, I realize there are many Super powered Lois issues that might be fun to talk about. I believe the 2 part story arc of issue #85 and #87(# 86 80pg. Gi.reprint) has lois not only as a super-Woman but strung out on super power drugs of some kind. I don't have the issues available, but I would be interested to see what you have say about that 60s Lois. I've read and own many of the Lois Lane issues and note that the marriage theme is seriously explored, mostly in "Imaginary stories" the precursor to Elseworlds. The imaginary stories I always find fascinating I'd be interested in more videos about imaginary super-marriages. Thank you for your entertaining videos.
This issue actually highlighted something that I'd never really thought about. The shortage of comics couples where the two are physical equals, or at least proportionately physical equals.
The closest I can immediately call to mind where the couple were equals was a sequence in The Power of Shazam! 24-27, where a timeline change causes Billy Batson's parents to become Captain Marvel and Marilyn Marvel instead of Billy and his sister.
Of course, despite the fact it would actually have been a pretty cool story, they killed Billy's parents off again, and in the DC Rebirth continuity C.C. Batson is a loser.
I'd like to hear more about Super Woman's history, especially in the case of crisis on two earths film where she's apparently a part of the shazam family
New head cannon!!!
All modern comics are now Lois Lane's isekai adventure.
Thank you for this XD
Hi Sasha love your channel, I keep seeing the Buffy book in the background and I’d like to know a bit about her, I watched the series version and wonder how it compares to the comics? Keep up the good work 😊👍❤️
Grunt - interesting word "Querk" . . . moving on loved her outfit. I'm waiting for the secret identity WIG reveal - yours that is. 👍🏻😊💓🌼
There ain't no ship like Lois x The Scoop I feel like I'm missing out so much on the history of Lois at this point! I'd be down for a recap video of that :)
Caitrin Lenartz
Hate to tell you this, but her superpower is dropping her typewriter.
She drop that thing on your foot, an it's like, ow, did u have to do that?
Ha. Behave, or I'll do it again...
Lois’s outfit goes hard.
I like the Lois and Clark episode where Lois becomes Ultra Woman thanks to red kryptonite. It helps her see that being a Superhero is tougher than she thought too. Plus it also ends with her proposing. So I bet that's a nod back to this comic. 🙂
That green wig looks really cool!
To be Fair... in regards to Lois having the Fabric on hand... Making one's own clothes was actually quite common in the 40s... IIRC you could order patterns up until the 1980s (probably today too)
Casual comics some of the hero’s you talk I now but most of the time you talk about hero’s I didn’t know existed
If you do a history of Superwoman, please don't forget to include Kristen Wells (and perhaps a little of her history as well...)
"Had Lex's baby"
Me: ¿QUEEEEEEEE?
Lois’ Super Woman costume rocks!
Oh oh, please oh please do a Superwoman/Miracle Monday video!
That Quark's shirt is awesome!
I love that at 5:59 the S-sheild is heart shaped.
keen observation about the portrayal of Clark from Lois' p.o.v. its a nice touch
Love your work! Could you do a retrospect on either Firebrand from DC, or Jocasta from the Avengers? Can't wait!
This must be where Grant Morrison got his Lois Lane Superwoman idea for All Star Superman. I always wondered about that!
This is a fun read....there is one you might want to look at superman: the nail or batman: the gauntlet
... That costume really does make her arms look great... (o.0)
You mentioned the "Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane" series. It ran for a pretty long time and you're right it went through a number of stages of growth for Lois. Can you provide a series overview on this? I think your take on this would be very interesting as well as a lot of fun!
We need more Lois as Superwoman, DC! Also, love the Quark/Cheers shirt! 🖖
That outfit really makes me think of that panel of 80s Louise lifting dumbbells