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Title: Lois Lane, Girl Reporter Newspaper Strip Post by: binarysunrise on January 11, 2007, 08:44:04 AM I am trying to find information on the Lois Lane, Girl Reporter newspaper strip which ran for at least a dozen strips in the winter of 1943 and spring of 1944. It was also later reprinted in 1946. It seems these strips did not run in very many newspapers at all, and were probably attached to that days Sunday Superman strip. (The Lois lane strips were only a single tier, 4 panels long, and each strip was a short self-contained humorous episode).
Has anyone seen this before? Title: Re: Lois Lane, Girl Reporter Newspaper Strip Post by: jamespup on January 12, 2007, 07:25:19 PM No, I was unaware of it.
Was it sort of like that Maw Green strip that used to run at the bottom of Little Orphan Annie? Title: Re: Lois Lane, Girl Reporter Newspaper Strip Post by: binarysunrise on January 12, 2007, 08:44:35 PM I actually don't know the Maw Green strip, but here are a few samples:
(http://www.thespeedingbullet.com/downloads/LoisLane1943125.jpg) Title: Re: Lois Lane, Girl Reporter Newspaper Strip Post by: Super Monkey on January 12, 2007, 09:04:52 PM This is an article about it here:
http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2007/01/obscurity-of-day-lois-lane-girl.html Title: Re: Lois Lane, Girl Reporter Newspaper Strip Post by: Great Rao on January 12, 2007, 10:33:38 PM I like the simple byline - "by Jerry and Joe"
Title: Re: Lois Lane, Girl Reporter Newspaper Strip Post by: jamespup on January 12, 2007, 10:41:24 PM I don't know why they called them "Toppers" when they were at the bottom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topper_(comic_strip) Title: Re: Lois Lane, Girl Reporter Newspaper Strip Post by: binarysunrise on January 13, 2007, 03:13:10 PM This is an article about it here: http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2007/01/obscurity-of-day-lois-lane-girl.html Yea, my research provoked this blog. Still haven't been able to find out much besides what was listed there. I've got a fourth one that was emailed to me today, but still it is amazing I haven't run across this before now... Title: Re: Lois Lane, Girl Reporter Newspaper Strip Post by: Uncle Mxy on January 14, 2007, 12:40:08 AM This was one of the things Jerry Siegel complained about in the '70s:
Quote Also concerned in the 1947 case was Detective Comics, Inc. publishing "Lois Lane, Girl Reporter" and carrying the byline, "By Jerry and Joe", without any compensation being paid to us. http://www.tcj.com/275/siegel1975.pdf Title: Re: Lois Lane, Girl Reporter Newspaper Strip Post by: Great Rao on January 15, 2007, 10:09:29 PM This was one of the things Jerry Siegel complained about in the '70s: Quote Also concerned in the 1947 case was Detective Comics, Inc. publishing "Lois Lane, Girl Reporter" and carrying the byline, "By Jerry and Joe", without any compensation being paid to us. http://www.tcj.com/275/siegel1975.pdf Perhaps that's why the last names were left out of the byline - in order to avoid having to pay Jerry or Joe. Title: Re: Lois Lane, Girl Reporter Newspaper Strip Post by: jamespup on January 17, 2007, 10:03:58 PM They should have hired Allen Klein
Title: Re: Lois Lane, Girl Reporter Newspaper Strip Post by: Aldous on January 18, 2007, 12:03:25 AM No matter what sort of a moral case you make for Jerry & Joe, they SOLD Superman, fair and square. What the new owners do with the character is THEIR business.
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