I think "Imaginary Tales" can be fun if they're well done. :-)
Jerry Siegel may have written that quote, but he is also the same guy who wrote
K-Metal- which isn't a love or marriage story, but does involve Lois learning the secret.
Seriously, even though I understand the arguments against the marriage and think they make a lot of sense- I don't have a strong feeling about it.
I do think that if DC retconned the marriage out and returned to the "Lois doesn't know" approach, I wouldn't mind at all, the stories could be a lot of fun, and I'd enjoy them. It also seems to work well in
All Star where Superman finally makes the revelation- and Lois doesn't even believe him!
But here's why I like the idea of the marriage- in all those old stories from the 1960s and 1970s, we always knew that "some day in the future" Lois and Superman would get married and have kids. We saw it in the Weisinger futures and alternate timelines and we saw Elliot lay the groundwork for it. I see the current marriage as basically fulfilling the promise of those old tales- so that we are now finally reading about the future.
However, I do not believe that the Carlin-era secret-ID revelation or marriage ever took place. That was an example of how
not to do it. In my world, it happened more like in
The Answer,
Luthor's Gift, or
Superman Takes a Wife.
I mentioned Elliot laying the groundwork- after reading
Who Took the Super out of Superman? and
Miracle Monday, it's pretty clear that Superman and Lois do have a strong love for each other and that there was a marriage coming.
At this point, trying to say that Lois wouldn't have figured it out on her own is pretty insulting to her intelligence. In reality, when Clark (or Kal) told her the secret, she probably already knew and had just been going along with it: "Well, it's about time you told me!" It really allows each of them to finally relax about the whole game and just get on with enjoying life.
I've got a lot more thoughts about this, which I'll post after the K-Metal story is done.