Comments on: Lois Lane Friday: Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane #80

By: Jack Hare

Jack Hare — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:57:57 +0000

"Questioning Lois while he thinks she’s under the effect of a truth serum — that’s just sleazy and wrong on so many levels." Or you might even say...Superman is a dick?

By: Harvey

Harvey — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:07:13 +0000

Maybe she really is a nurse and was faking the journalism degree.

By: Melissa Gay

Melissa Gay — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 23:29:56 +0000

“As for the rest of the medicine in this issue, I just wonder what kind of transfusion can pull a man from a coma.”

A loooooooooove transfusion! :D

By: John Nowak

John Nowak — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:59:49 +0000

Hmm … suppose “Lorne” is her real name and “Lane” is her nom de plume?

Actually, I think it would be interesting for a legal historian to look at some of these old comics. Did Batman need to register the Batmobile back in the 1930s? What sort of degree did Lois need back in 1968?

By: Leigh

Leigh — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 03:14:39 +0000

“In a story we had to call… Katch Me If You Kandor!”

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:12:28 +0000

“Or Lois is supposed to be so smart and observant that she can fake her way through any other job as long as they don’t check her credentials?”

Heh. Silver Age Lois was a Pretender, huh?

“(FYI, when Lois applies for the job as nurse, the long line of candidates is all women — no men allowed in nursing in 1968 it seems). ”

Well, it is true that there were a *lot* fewer male nurses at that point in time, and you rarely saw those who existed portrayed in the media, either.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:04:38 +0000

Lois had long been described as a “volunteer nurse” — though what training this actually entailed was never mentioned. Even in her previous appearances as a nurse, she was always doing everything — from surgery to adminstering radiation therapy. I suspect the writers were tired of the “girl reporter” angle and looking for new venues to put Lois in.
(FYI, when Lois applies for the job as nurse, the long line of candidates is all women — no men allowed in nursing in 1968 it seems).

By: Kristin

Kristin — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:34:42 +0000

I can’t get past the fact that we are supposed to believe that Lois has a ASN or BSN in addition to her journalism degree(s). At this point Lois is potrayed as someone in her mid-twenties, she must have been super-student. And while maintaining her thriving journalism career she completed the necessary continuing education to keep a nursing license active.

In the past comics didn’t have to worry about continuity, they couldn’t even keep up with reality. Looking at the clothes I date this as a 1960s/70s comic. Perhaps the writer thought that nursing was one of those “women’s jobs” and therefore didn’t require specialized training or expertise. Or Lois is supposed to be so smart and observant that she can fake her way through any other job as long as they don’t check her credentials?