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Issue Details

Issue #27
Published August 1961
Frequency monthly with the exception of Mar, June, Sept, Dec
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "Lois Lane's Super-Brain!"

Characters Bizarro; Lois Lane
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Letters Ira Schnapp
Reprinted in Superman in the Sixties (DC, 1999 series) #[nn]

8 page Lois Lane story "Lois Lane's Super-Brain!"

Characters Lois Lane; Lucy Lane; Professor Holt; Dr. Von Schmitt; Perry White; Garry Moore; Jimmy Olsen; Bizarro
Synopsis After tampering with Professor Holt's brain machine Lois gives herself super-intelligence, but also makes her head grow out of proportion with her body. She then tries to hide this mutation from everyone she meets.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Notes Writer identification by Martin O'Hearn. Lois appears on the real-world television show "I've Got a Secret" (hosted by Garry Moore) in this story. One panel from this story is reprinted in The Superman Family (DC, 1974 series) #169.
Reprinted in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #95 (October 1969)

Half page Little Pete story "Look -- horse rides."

Characters Little Pete; Pete's dad
Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

Half page Superman promo (ad from the publisher) "See the Many Fantastic Faces of Superman..."

Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes house ad for Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #3, on sale June 22

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "At Last!"

Genre superhero
Pencils various
Inks various
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes house ad for Secret Origins (DC, 1961 series) #1, on sale June 15

8 page Lois Lane story "The Battle of the Sisters!"

Characters Lois Lane; Lucy Lane; Superman; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Lana Lang; Bor-Jak (Kryptonian); Kandor; Van-Zee (cameo); Sylvia (cameo)
Synopsis Lois is shocked when Superman asks Lucy Lane to marry him. She teams up with Jimmy Olsen to figure out what's really going on, and it turns out to be Bor-Jak, yet another Kandorian double for Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye

Half page Batman promo (ad from the publisher) "The Inside Stories of Batman and Robin's Top Secrets"

Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan; Sheldon Moldoff; Dick Sprang
Inks Charles Paris
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes house ad for Batman Annual (DC, 1961 series) #1, on sale June 29

1 page Letters to Lois letters page

Script Mort Weisinger ?
Pencils Al Plastino ? (logo illustration)
Inks ? (logo illustration)
Colors ? (logo illustration)
Letters typeset
Notes Letters submitted by Joan Lee; Larry Mandell; Dennis Weil; Betty Makohan; Richard Gorsky; Bonnie-Jo Jacobson; Larry Gates; Joel Marks

7 page Lois Lane story "The Last Days of Lois Lane!"

Characters Lois Lane; Superman [also appears as Clark Kent]; General Horton; Professor Van Hess; Dr. Jerrold; Sam Lane; Ella Lane
Synopsis Lois believes she's got less than a week to live due to radiation poisoning and tries to get stories that no other reporter would attempt.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Notes Writer identification by Martin O'Hearn.
Reprinted in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #84 (July 1968)