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SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE #20

Cover Date: October 1960
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1960-08-09

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye


Story: "Superman's Flight from Lois Lane!" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtKurt Schaffenberger
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in Action Comics #268; next in the second story in this issue)

Guest Star(s):

Superman (last in Superman Vol. 1 #140; next in the second story in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane of an alternate timeline (first appearance; see Comments)
Perry White of an alternate timeline (first appearance; see Comments)

Villain(s):

three members of a counterfeiting mob in an alternate timeline (first appearance; see Comments)

Other Character(s):

Liza Landis (first appearance; see Comments)
Liza Landis of an alternate timeline (first appearance; see Comments)
the manager of radio station WMET of an alternate timeline (first appearance; see Comments)

Location(s):

Metropolis (also of an alternate timeline)
Daily Planet
the Timestream

Comment(s):

Superman travels back upon his own timeline, to the day he first applied for a job at the Daily Planet. Under the rules of time travel in the Pre-Crisis multiverse he should only appear as a phantom due to his prior existence in the timeline. Therefore, he has entered, if not created, an alternate timeline.
Superman travels from 1960 to at least 1953, if not earlier. Based on Clark Kent's comments, it is at most 5 years after he was Superboy.

Story Reprinted in:

Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #94/2 (August 1969)
Showcase Presents: Superman Family #4 ([July] 2013)


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Second Story: "The Luckiest Girl in Metropolis" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryRobert Bernstein
ArtAl Plastino
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in the first story in this issue; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #48/3)

Guest Star(s):

Superman (last in the first story in this issue; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #48)

Supporting Character(s):

Perry White (last in Action Comics #268/2; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #48/3)

Villain(s):

"Bullet" Benson and his gang (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Daily Planet staffers
a District Attorney

Location(s):

Labrador (site of an archaeological dig)
Metropolis
Daily Planet

Story Reprinted in:

Showcase Presents: Superman Family #4 ([July] 2013)


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Third Story: "Lois Lane's Super-Daughter!" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtKurt Schaffenberger
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Lois Lane (in between issues #19/3 and #23/3)

Guest Star(s):

Superman (in between issues #19/3 and #23/3)
Supergirl (first appearance)

Other Character(s):

Miss Hart
Mrs. Clayton (an investigator for Midvale Orphanage)
Superman and Clark Kent robots
a Linda Lee robot

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814
Earth
Metropolis
Midvale
Midvale Orphanage
Unidentified Space Sector
an unidentified solar system

Comment(s):

This is an "Imaginary" Story, the second in a series following Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #19/3 (August 1960): "Mr. and Mrs. Clark (Superman) Kent!"

Story Reprinted in:

80 Page Giant Magazine #14 (September 1965) [one page cut]
Superman in the Sixties ([November] 1999)
Showcase Presents: Superman Family #4 ([July] 2013)


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