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She is Superman's chief romantic interest and a reporter for the Metropolis newspaper, the Daily Planet. She debuted in Action Comics #1 ( 1938). Her physical appearance was originally based on a model hired by Shuster and Siegel named Joanne Carter .
Though an accomplished journalist, the social climate of the era and the fact that rival reporter Clark Kent got an amazing number of exclusive stories about Superman, led to her demotion to "lovelorn" columnist. This led to her rivalry with Clark Kent and a penchant for taking more risks in the pursuit of news stories.
She is one of several Superman characters with the initials "LL", including Lex Luthor, Lana Lang, and Lori Lemaris (the Mermaid).
As the audience for comic books began gravitating towards young boys, stories shifted in focus from investigative journalism, political corruption and mobsters to fantastic plots involving aliensExtraterrestrial as an adjective, refers to something that originates, occurs, or is located outside Earth or its atmosphere. As a noun, the term is used to refer to any life form which comes from outside Earth and its atmosphere. The term has been widely, fantasy creatures and bizarre, often contrived, plots. Lois's main interests became vying with rival Lana Lang for Superman's affections, attempting to prove Clark Kent and Superman were one and the same, and tricking or otherwise forcing Superman into marriageMarriage is a relationship that plays a key role in the definition of many families. Precise definitions vary historically and between and within cultures, but it has been an important concept as a socially sanctioned bond between people who (usually) are. Her popularity rose during this period and she gained her own comic book though with her role clearly delineated in the title as Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane. Eventually as attitudes towards women changed in the 1970sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Years: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 Events and trends, Lois was increasingly depicted as being very capable in dealing with more mundane dangers and more respectful of Superman's privacy. For example, in her solo stories in Superman Family, she regularly battled criminals in her investigations and defeated them with quick wits and considerable skill in martial arts.
Lois underwent a serious character alteration with the 1986 revamp of CrisisCrisis on Infinite Earths was a 12 issue comic book mini-series produced by DC Comics in 1985 in order to clean up their 50-year-old, convoluted and confusing continuity. Written by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by George Perez, Dick Giordano and Jerry Ord (which included " rebootingReboot in series fiction, means to discard all previous continuity in the series and start anew. Effectively, all previously-known history is declared by the writer to be null and void and the series starts over from the beginning. It is analagous to the" Superman for the modern world). This time around, Lois was a tough-as-nails reporter who rarely needed rescuing. She was depicted as strong, opinionated, yet sensitive. She's every bit as comfortable in fatigues as she is in an evening gown. One important change in Lois is that she did not fall head over heels in love with Superman. A reason for this is because the nature of the Superman/Clark Kent relationship had changed. Whereas before he was Superman and Clark Kent was essentially a pair of glasses that helped him blend in, now he was Clark Kent and Superman was just the cape and costume that let him help people. After some time, Lois and Clark began dating. Later they became engaged and Clark revealed the secret of his dual life.
DC had planned on Lois and Clark being married with Superman #75, slated to come out in January 1993. However, with the upcoming TV show , DC decided they did not want to have the two married in the comics and not married on TV (and they had dreams of doing the two stories concurrently). Partially as a result of this, Superman was killed in the comics, dying in Lois's arms after a battle royal with the monster Doomsday. The subsequent months of comics, which did not have Superman, were some of the best examples of characterization for Lois. Superman returned to life and he and Lois resumed their relationship. With the TV show going full steam, the engagement dragged on for several years, resulting in a number of problems ( Lori Lemaris being one, Clark's old college flame) and Lois actually broke it off for a while (for reasons not adequately explored). But then, in the course of a single issue, Lois decided she couldn't live without Clark. She and Clark were married in the spectacular Superman: The Wedding Album , which featured the work of nearly every artist who had ever worked on Superman and was still living.
Lois is either attractive in a simple girl-next-door sort of way or the most georgeous supermodel-level woman who ever lived depeneding on who draws her. Typically, she falls somewhere in the middle. One thing to note is that the comic is constantly being put under pressure to parallel other forms of media: i.e. Lois got a hair cut to look more like Teri Hatcher when Lois and Clark began airing and her eyes were typically violet to match the Lois on after that show began airing.
Lois is the daughter of Sam and Ellen Lane. Her father, Sam Lane, was a grizzled old soldier who always wanted a son and ending up with two girls improvised. Consequently, Lois was trained in hand to hand combat, could operate firearms, and could even throw knives with her toes. The somewhat estranged relationship she had with her father was exacerbated when he was recruited into President Luthor's cabinet. When he died in battle, she was devastated however, and part of her wanted to blame Superman for not being able to save him. She has one sibling, her younger sister, Lucy Lane-Troupe .
Arguably the best Lois Lane story is to be found in Adventures of Superman #525.