Wednesday, May 9, 2007

"Hello, May I Speak with Lois Lane please?"


Written by Kal-El

Lois Lane started working in the Daily Planet (previously called The Daily Star) since the early golden age of the Superman Comics in the 1940’s; Lois was featured as an aggressive, career-minded reporter. after Clark Kent joined the paper and Superman debuted around the same time, found herself attracted to Superman, but displeased with her new journalistic competition in the form of Kent. Starting in the late 1940s or early 1950s comics, Lois began to suspect that Clark Kent was Superman, and started to make various attempts at uncovering his secret identity, all of which backfired, due to Superman manages to out smart Lois Lane.

By the end of the 1960s, as attitudes toward women's role in American society began to change, Lois did as well. 1970s stories featuring Lois depicted her as being fully capable of taking care of herself, engaged in more solo adventures without Superman being involved, and her being much less interested in things such as discovering Superman's secret identity.

Lois underwent a character alteration beginning with John Byrne's The Man of Steel miniseries, which was designed to rewrite Superman's origin from scratch. In the modern version of events, Lois was a tough-as-nails reporter who rarely needed rescuing. She was depicted as strong, opinionated, yet sensitive.

Another major change made was that Lois did not fall head over heels in love with Superman (though she may have harbored a slight crush at first). One reason for this was the changed nature of the Superman/Clark Kent relationship: before Superman had been the man who disguised himself as Clark Kent, but now Clark Kent lived a life in which his activity as Superman was decidedly secondary. After some time, Lois and Clark began dating. In the early 1990s, they became engaged and Clark revealed to Lois the secret of his dual life.

However, with the then-upcoming show Lois and Clark: the New Adventures of Superman, DC decided they did not want to have the two married in the comics and not married on TV. Partially as a result of this, Superman was killed in Superman #75 instead, dying in Lois' arms after a Monstrous Battle with the monster Doomsday. After a period of time, Superman returned to life, and both he and Lois resumed their relationship.

In 1996, coinciding with the Lois and Clark television program, Lois and Clark were finally wed in the one-shot special Superman: The Wedding Album,which featured the work of nearly every then-living artist who had ever worked on Superman. The Wedding Album itself.

Lois quite often has been played by number of famous celebrities.
Check the list below:

1) Rollie Bester originated the role of Lois Lane for a radio series with Bud Collyer as
Superman in the 1940s.
2) Phyllis Coates as Lois Lane on Adventures of Superman (1940’s)
3) Noel Neill as Lois Lane on Adventures of Superman (1948 and 1950’s)
4) Patricia Marand in Broadway musical It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman (1966)
5) Lesley Ann Warren in the TV version of It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman (1975)
6) Margot Kidder as Lois Lane in the Superman movies (1970s and 1980s)
7) Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane on Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993)
8) Dana Delany, voice of Lois Lane on Superman and subsequent Justice League cartoons.
(1990s – 2000)
9) Erica Durance as Lois Lane on Smallville (2001 – Current)
10) Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane in Superman Returns (2006 - Current)

Today, Lois and Clark in an apartment at 1938 Sullivan Lane in Metropolis.
May they live happily ever after.

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