Comments on: Lois Lane #106: A Medical Review

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:14:41 +0000

Lana gained her transfusion-related super-powers in Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane #17. His blood being usable by all four bloodtypes was in Superman #6 (Golden Age, 1939 or 40). I haven't reviewed that one yet, I'm saving it for my "All Superman Week", which will probably be the last week of March.

By: Julian Perez

Julian Perez — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:55:18 +0000

Huh! This is interesting. I seem to remember at least one occasion in an issue of Superman’s Girl Friend Lois Lane where he gives Lana a blood transfusion and she gains superpowers temporarily. Also, I think in a Golden Age issue, Superman is said to have a Super-blood type that was usable by all four blood types.

Then again, the idea of a black Lois Lane is pretty funky. They might want to do it for the movies, provided they get a foxy enough actress.

(Jimmy Olsen of course, would have to remain white, being the whitest white kid in history)

By: Ratbat

Ratbat — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 02:57:24 +0000

I think this story was interesting for showing racism as cutting both ways, which wasn’t done a whole lot in mainstream fiction.

However, I think Lois’ question to Superman about marrying her now she’s black, while certainly sparky and confrontational, was a bit of a fizzler. He’s spent the past few decades not marrying while she was white anyway! Saying no would hardly be ‘being black changes things’ for him…

By: Jim Kosmicki

Jim Kosmicki — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 22:06:05 +0000

as i have said on other blogs when they bring this story up — I read this at a babysitter’s house in the early 70’s (I would have been 8 or 9 probably), and it had a huge impact on me. I grew up in lily-white rural Nebraska, and racism simply wasn’t a subject that I thought about. This story made me think about it and realize how much of a problem it could be. I’ll always have a soft spot for this story, no matter what anybody says about it.

By: Jim Reynolds

Jim Reynolds — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:58:12 +0000

Being O-, The Red Cross and Lifesouth always compete for my blood.

As flawed as that story may be, I wish there were more stories in the supehero mainstream addressing problems like those. Aids is the only one I can think of really touched on nowadays.

By: George

George — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:50:10 +0000

I choose to believe that Superman is a closet racist. Silver Age Superman was a dick.