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YMMV: Lois Lane
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- Hilarious in Hindsight: On the letters page of Lois Lane #83, a Ms. Marilyn Marsh wrote in to complain about boys' fashion getting more feminine. The editor responded by saying that Superman definitely wouldn't have "shoulder-length locks". Some 25 years or so later, and The Last Son of Krypton came back from the dead with The Super-Mullet...
- Fair for Its Day: The "I Am Curious (Black)!" story was actually widely praised for being a sensitive look at racial relations... when it was first published. Similarly, there was at least one story where Lois was rendered temporarily blind, and it dealt with the subject in a non-patronising manner... by the standards of the Silver Age.
- What an Idiot: In one story, Lois gets an interview with Superman... by jumping out of a window, completely certain that he would show up to rescue her. (He does, but what if he'd been in outer space?)
- Amusingly referenced much later, when a powerless Clark does the same thing to get an interview with the new hero Supernova, and Lois berates him for taking such a stupid risk.
- Hitting on your boyfriend's father, thus almost causing him to never come to exist, isn't very smart either.
- Yeah, Lois, the world's most noble hero, not to mention your loving boyfriend, is going to reject you just because you've suddenly turned dark-skinned.
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