Editing Lois Lane (section)

===Golden Age===
[[Image:Superman27.PNG|thumb|The Golden Age Lois Lane and Superman, from the cover of ''Superman'' #27 (March–April 1944), art by [[Wayne Boring]].]]
In the [[Golden Age of Comics|Golden Age]] comics, Lois was an aggressive, career-minded reporter for the ''[[Daily Star (DC Comics)|Daily Star]]'' (the newspaper's name was changed to the ''Daily Planet'' in ''Action Comics'' #23 in 1940). After Clark Kent joined the paper and Superman debuted around the same time, Lois found herself attracted to Superman but displeased with her new journalistic competition in the form of Kent.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fleisher |first1=Michael L. |title=The Original Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes, Volume Three: Superman |date=2007 |publisher=DC Comics |isbn=978-1-4012-1389-3 |pages=145–162, 409–420}}</ref>

Starting early as the 1940s, Lois began to suspect that Clark Kent was Superman, and started to make various attempts at uncovering his [[secret identity]], all of which backfired because of Superman's efforts. The first such story appears in ''Superman'' #17 (July–August 1942).<ref>{{cite comic| writer= [[Jerry Siegel|Siegel, Jerry]]| penciller= [[Joe Shuster|Shuster, Joe]]| inker= Sikela, John| story= Man Or Superman?| title= [[Superman (comic book)|Superman]]| issue= #17 | date= July–August 1942}}</ref> This theme became particularly pronounced in the 1950s and 1960s [[Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver Age comic books]].

Lois gained her first series of stories (without Superman) starting with ''Superman'' #28 (May–June 1944),<ref>{{cite comic| writer=Cameron, Don| penciller=Dobrotka, Ed|story=Lois Lane, Girl Reporter story–The Suicidal Swain| title=Superman| issue=#28|date=June 1944}}</ref> ''Lois Lane, Girl Reporter'', running in the ''Superman'' comic book for a number of years, had Lois defeating bad guys and getting front-page stories on her own, without any help from Superman.

In the Golden Age comics, Lois had a niece named Susie Tompkins, whose main trait was getting into trouble by telling exaggerated [[tall tale]]s and fibs to adults.<ref>{{cite comic| writer= Siegel, Jerry| penciller= Sikela, John| inker=Dobrotka, Ed| story= Cinderella – a la Superman| title= Action Comics | issue= 59| date= April 1943}}</ref> Susie's last appearance was in ''Superman'' #95 (February 1955).<ref>{{cite comic| writer= [[William Woolfolk|Woolfolk, Bill]]| penciller= [[Wayne Boring|Boring, Wayne]]| inker=Kaye, Stan| story= Susie's Enchanted Isle| title= Superman| issue= #95| date= February 1955}}</ref> Subsequent comics presented Lois' only sibling, Lucy, as single and childless.