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Okay, I'll admit from the off - I probably bought Lois Lane mainly for the sexy drawings of her on the covers at this time, but also because it was a Superman mag in all but name. Well all right, his name was on the cover, though it was smaller than Lois's, but she sure looked good flaunting her feminine charms in these alluring images (#121 aside). Issue #113 (below) wasn't one of the 25 cents 52 pagers - it was a 35 cents 68 Giant issue, but I've included it here so as not to interrupt the numbering.
I didn't realize until I dug them out for scanning how tired, condition-wise, some of the covers are, so I'm going to have to consider upgrading to better copies in the not-too-distant future before the prices go up, but they'll do meantime for the purpose of this post. Were you brave (and lust-driven) enough - like me - to buy what was probably considered a comic for girls back in the '70s, or did you stick with the obvious comics for boys? (Superman, Batman, and all the Jack Kirby titles, etc.)
Feel free to unburden your soul for buying such near-pornography in our understanding and forgiving comments section.
Gorgeous! I'm miffed that the Lois Lane Fourth World material has to my knowledge never been collected. It's certainly worthy of a slim volume to make some significant material readily available.
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W-e-l-l.....Rose/Thorn did used to wander around in her negligee and get dressed most episodes. I'm off for my cold shower
ReplyDeleteI'd certainly buy it, RJ, so let's hope it happens before too long.
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I knew there was a reason I was such a fan of hers, SB4A. I need two cold showers.
I’m surprised at just how many of those Lois Lane comics I had (113, 114, 116,117 and 120) from your list alone. Some of the covers are classics like 121 (the "old" Lois Lane) and I was equally surprised at how many were indeed “good girl “ covers with poor Lois bound and tied waiting for Superman to save her and the cover to issue 122 is a borderline fetish cover – but they are all beautifully illustrated and I suppose geared at attracting teenage boys as much as girls.
ReplyDeleteI had a priority list of the types of comic I would pick up which I noted in one of my posts (wee plug there) which was basically superhero, barbarians, science fiction, humour, horror and lastly what would be considered “girls comics”. Of course there was also a sub set in the Superhero (and to an extent horror ) comics where certain female orientated comics would take priority like Vampirella, Satana, Black Widow etc. Lois Lane was always on that last list for me (like Supergirl)and I would only pick it up if the comic had a good back up in the case of Lois Lane that would be the “Rose and the Thorn”. Still I retain an affection for Lois Lanes comic at this time it was certainly dated compared to Marvels take on female comics/characters but Lois was just innocent silliness.
Yeah, 120 and 122 (as you say in the case of the latter) are definitely fetish covers to a degree (perhaps even more than borderline), McS, but though I was attracted to them because Lois 'looked good', I wouldn't have had a clue what 'fetish' even meant back then. Amazing to think that editors might've been specifically asking the artists to draw such covers, just to attract little pervs like us, eh? Or is it possible it was just a coincidence and the covers were merely innocently illustrating whatever peril Lois was in that month?
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting to wonder whether we sometimes bought certain comics without always being aware that it was a touch of 'good girl' art in some instances which influenced our decisions. Or was it a combination of factors? Will we - CAN we - ever know for sure?