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Issue Details

Issue #40
Published April 1963
Frequency monthly with the exception of Mar, June, Sept, Dec
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "Lois Lane's Old Age!"

Characters Lois Lane; Superman; Lana Lang
Genre superhero
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Letters Ira Schnapp

9 page Lois Lane story "Lois Lane, Hag!"

Characters Lois Lane; Superman; Lana Lang; Madam Mimi; "Rocky" Rhodes; Perry White; Dr. Sharpe; Lucy Lane
Synopsis Lois sets out to expose a fountain-of-youth formula as a hoax, but then she is turned into an old hag.
Genre superhero
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Reprinted in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #95 (October 1969); in Superman Family, The (DC, 1974 series) #169 [one panel only]

1 page public service announcement "Salute to Our Fellow Citizens of Puerto Rico!"

Synopsis Information about the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and brief profiles of famous people from there.
Genre fact; celebrity
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Morris Waldinger ?
Inks Morris Waldinger ?
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly

8 page Lois Lane story "Lois Lane, Foreign Correspondent!"

Characters Lois Lane; Duke Rinaldo d'Laslo [Hangman of Brozna]; Superman
Synopsis Lois is made to believe that she married a duke while on assignment in Brozna, but the duke turns out to be a murderer who is seeking to escape to the United States as the husband of an American citizen.
Genre superhero
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger

Half page Peg story "I heard you had a big fight with Arthur!"

Characters Peg; June
Genre teen
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

1 page Letters to Lois letters page

Script Mort Weisinger ?
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger (logo illustration)
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger (logo illustration)
Colors ? (logo illustration)
Letters typeset
Notes Letters submitted by Steve Carter; Evie Brotman; Fred Bronson; Gregg Way; John David; Jack Kirkness; Darrell Lehman; Madge Evans

8 page Lois Lane story "The Lana Lang of 500 B.C.!"

Characters Lois Lane; Lana Lang; Achilles; Circe; Ilya; Clark Kent (cameo)
Synopsis At a museum opening, Lois finds Circe's magic wand and is accidentally transported into the past where she meets the hero Achilles, who has Superman's invulnerabiity, and Ilya, a girl who resembles her rival Lana Lang.
Genre superhero
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger