(Superman I #20) - Lois had Daily Planet pressman Carl run off a gag paper featuring an expose revealing Clark Kent as Superman in order to play a practical joke on her co-worker. Clark didn’t think it was funny, and he was aghast when Carl came down with appendicitis and without him around to stop production the paper made its way into the hands of the public. Perry White was furious that Lois had ruined his newspaper’s reputation, and wanted to fire her, but she thought he was overreacting. Clark decided to save her job, and told Perry they could play it up as a good natured hoax. Perry liked the idea of saving face and selling papers, so he told Clark to dress as Superman and keep up the act for a while. Perry let his friend Lee Brandon, head of the Third National Bank, in on the hoax, and for a publicity stunt they hired actors to pretend to rob the bank and have Clark save the day. Mobster ”Ironjaw” Grogan was in the Daily Planet building and overheard them. Realizing an opportunity for easy money, he had his gang replace the actors, and robbed the bank. Superman foiled them, then quickly changed back to Clark, and claimed he’d chickened out on the publicity stunt. The Daily Planet then revealed Lois’ article as a hoax, and Clark was happy his secret was still safe.

(Superman I #20) - Hitler’s scientist Herr Fange unleashed a sea serpent on the coastal town of Weston, and Lois and Clark went to cover the story. The U.S. destroyer Grella was deployed to investigate, and Lois insisted they stow away to observe the action. Clark bowed out, feigning timidity, and changed to Superman. Superman brought Lois aboard the destroyer, and then locked her in the brig to keep her out of trouble. Fange sicced his sea monsters on the destroyer and Weston, causing havoc, but Superman turned them away. One of the monsters snatched up Lois, and Fange took her hostage, demanding that Superman allow him to destroy a U.S. convoy if he wanted her alive. Lois couldn’t stand to see the convoy destroyed, so she tore away from Fange and leapt into the sea serpents clutches. Superman rescued her and the convoy, while the whistle Fange used to control the monsters malfunctioned, causing them to tear him to pieces.

(Superman I #20) Perry White sent Lois and Clark to investigate a report that Superman was about to jump off the Chandler Suspension Bridge, only to find that it was a publicity stunt cooked up by Herman the Heroic, a wanna-be costumed adventurer who idolized Superman. Lois locked Clark in a zoo cage to keep him out of her way, but when Herman was about to get himself killed, Clark changed into Superman and rescued him. Superman appreciated Herman’s gratitude but told him his foolishness would get him killed. Superman changed back to Clark and reentered the cage where Lois left him, but the cage and the big cats inside were stolen by the Leopard, who had a predilection for jungle cats, and his gang. Superman attacked the gang, but they sicced a number of cats on him, allowing them to make their escape. Lois and Clark covered Herman’s next stunt, wrestling a tiger at the Cosmos Circus. The Leopard replaced the old, toothless tiger with a vicious one, hoping to keep Superman occupied while he committed a robbery. Superman saved Herman again, and together they brought the Leopard to justice.

(Superman I #49) - Toyman escaped from custody on his way to prison, and witnesses at his trial for the theft of pearls started dying off, but Clark told Lois he didn't believe he was a killer. Toyman sent Lois a Toyman doll with instructions on finding him to give to Superman, and begged for Superman's help, claiming he was being framed. Superman said he'd try to clear him and save him from the electric chair, but that he'd regret any funny business. Lois snooped and followed Superman, but Toyman took her prisoner in hopes of escaping custody once his name was cleared. Superman saved the two remaining witnesses from mechanical birds and a mechanical fish, and after interviewing them realized that Arnold Langs, the victim of the Toyman's theft was his prime suspect. He'd substituted fake pearls for the real ones during trial, and wanted to sell the pearls and collect the insurance money for them, and was knocking off the witnesses because they might have seen him making the switch. Superman brought him to justice, but when he came to fetch Toyman he presented the trussed-up Lois and activated a fan that sprayed acid at her, knowing he'd have a chance to escape while Superman saved her. He flew off on a rocket-powered hobbyhorse, but Superman managed to save Lois and put him back in prison.

(Superman I #49) - Clark fled from a collapsing bridge so he could change to Superman and save the day, but a photo snapped pictures of Clark's apparent act of cowardice and Perry White fired him in disgust. Lois demanded that he find a backbone and redeem himself, and he got his chance when approached by inventor Ira Stone. Stone's competitor J.C. Quagmire had stolen his formula for a new paint, but overlooked one ingredient. Stone would prove the superiority of his paint by using it on dangerous outposts around the world and Lois and Clark agreed to accompany him. Quagmire sent his goon the Gargoyle after them, and when they painted a Himalayan mountaintop he created an avalance, but Superman saved Lois and Stone's life. He foiled the Gargoyle twice more, and managed to paint a volcano and an iceberg. Lois was happy that the story got Clark rehired, but was angry that he scooped her yet again.

(Superman I #49) - Perry White called Lois and Clark into his office concerned that circulation was decreasing because of the Examiner, which won public approval through fake scoops and phony stunts. Lois, inspired by Nellie Bly, the famous girl reporter who raced around the world in 72 days, announced her own bid to circle the globe. She'd use local transportation, and abandon her transport at midnight every day. Clark wondered if she needed Superman's help, and she was determined to go it alone, and flatly refused any aid. Clark changed to Superman to keep an eye on her, a wise choice since Examiner editor Ryall sent a thug after Lois to spoil her story. The thug was willing to resort to murder, but Superman stayed his hand and helped Lois behind the scenes, posing as a magic carpet in the Orient and assembling a crocodile team to pull her boat across the Nile. On her return to Metropolis Lois literally ran into Ryall, who was so flustered that he confessed to attempted murder. Perry didn't believe Lois' story until he saw the photos, and Lois rubbed it in Clark's face.

(Superman I #50) - Lois covered a press conference where promoter and crook Jasper Hawk offered $100,000 for anyone who could come up with a task that stumped Superman. The suggestions were all Hawk's, and all made by Hawk for financial gain. He challenged Superman to move Mt. Lincoln, because there was a gold vein underneath. Superman was wise to him and used smokestacks to create a hydraulic jet that moved the mountain, but also took the vein with it, leaving the gold for the use of local farmers. When he challenged Superman to dry a swamp so the land would become prime real estate Superman made it into a desert with an observatory lens. His final challenge was for Superman to build a harbor south of Metropolis. Superman used red-hot rocks from the deep stratum to accomplish the task, but Hawk had kidnapped the snooping Lois Lane, and Superman had to rescue her from his construction site. Hawk was led away, but Lois won $1000,000 and gave it to charity by asking Superman to reveal his secret identity, something he simply would not do.

(Superman I #50) - Prankseter committed a series of robberies themed on literal interpretations of advertising slogans, and Superman came close to catching him at a charity ball that Lois was covering, but Prankster escaped in a spring-loaded giant shoe. Superman made an ad for a pop drink that made its drinkers Supermen, knowing Prankster couldn't resist. Superman confronted Prankster at his pep-up pop stand, but Prankster had kidnapped Lois and placed her inside a giant pop bottle filled with explosives. Superman saved Lois and brought Prankster to prison. To rub his failure in his face he passed an ad for Happy Valley Subdivision, proclaiming "Your Future Home! You'll Never Leave!"

(Superman I #50) - Lois and Clark covered a presentation at the Hunters' Club where Tom Alden and his friends presented a Brontosaurus, a Mastodon and a sea serpent, beasts that Superman had helped them catch.

(Superman I #51) -Mr. Mxyztplk proposed to Lois Lane, and refused to stop causing mischief until she consented. Lois agreed on the condition that he prove he was a better reporter, thus forcing Superman to help her win and help her career. Mxy scooped her getting an exclusive interview with millionaire recluse Seymour Salmon and getting the exclusive on an experimental rocket. Perry was worried about losing his star reporter so he gave Lois and Mxy the assignment of getting Superman to answer three questions. Lois seemed a lock until Mxy assaulted Metropolis with a giant hot sauce jar, and while Superman cleaned up the mess he responded to Mxyztplk's banter and answered three questions. Lois told Superman she'd never forgive him, and the marriage ceremony started. When the preacher asked if there were any objections Superman claimed Mxyztplk was an imposter named Klptzyxm, and Mxy was irritated enough to speak his name backwards in defense of himself, sending him back to Zriff.

(Superman I #51) - The Brighton Armored Company replaced their armored cars with tanks, and Perry sent Lois and Clark to cover the story. The tanks seemed to be a big success until crime genius Mr. Ohm built a plane equipped with a super-magnet to hijack the tanks. Superman couldn't stop them because the magnet repelled a magnetic substance in Superman's costume. During their next hijack Superman built his own super-magnet to counteract Ohm's and catch the crook.

(Superman I #51) - Lois tried to raise money for a new orphan-asylum, and when the money stopped coming in Superman offered his help. The new orphan-fund contest would award Superman's services to the winner for a day. Racketeer Pudge Purdy won Superman's services, and tried to reap financial gain, but Superman outsmarted him at every turn.

(JSA #82) <March 21, 1951> Lois covered the story of Gentleman Ghost's theft of rare valuables and his clashes with Batman and Superman.

Lois, in her mid-60s, still worked at the Star when the Crisis on Infinite Earths occurred. Before Earth-2 was erased from history, Lois was rescued by Earth-3's Alex Luthor, and brought to another dimension, alongside Superman and the Superboy of Earth-Prime.

(JSA #82) -  Heaven,  Superman brought his dying wife fresh flowers from a mountaintop, then let Lois get on with chronicling the greatest news stories she d ever covered.

(Blackest Night: Superman #1-3) - Superman and Lois Lane of Earth-2 were resurrected as part of the Black Lantern Corps. They were charged with ripping out the hearts of those emotionally affected by their resurrection, gathering their emotions and using them to help Nekron return and end life in the universe. They terrorized Smallville, killing the residents and extracting their fear. Kal-L then attacked Superman and Superboy, with Lois kidnapping Ma Kent to heighten their emotions. Ma managed to escape, and Lois chased her through the corn fields. Ma burned Lois with a torch, but she kept coming. Krypto showed up, and bit off Lois' Black Lantern ring, destroying her. Superman and Superboy managed to destroy Kal-L.

Comments: Created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster.

Lois Lane received a profile in Infinite Crisis Secret Files 2006 #1.

Lois had a cameo in Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime #1.

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