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Posts tagged Lois Lane
Man of Steel Behind the Scenes Featurette Debuts Online
Here’s a new featurette via Wal-Mart on Man of Steel that has lots of footage and interviews with Cavill, Snyder, Shannon and Adams who calls Superman, “a timeless story.”
A Look at Lois Lane from a Kids’ Man of Steel Book
There’s quite a few kids’ early readers out tied into the Man of Steel movie including Man of Steel: Superman’s Powers. This book not only talks about Superman’s powers it also says how he gets his name.
Here’s a look Amy Adams/Lois Lane and click for the reveal.
Newest TV Ad for Man of Steel Gives Us More Lois Lane
The third TV ad for the upcoming Superman movie gives a new shot of Amy Adams as Lois Lane flying with Superman. With Iron Man open, everything superhero movie will be Superman for the next month.
DC Unveils Superman Unchained Anniversary Variants Featuring Lois Lane
DC just debuted the variant 75th anniversary covers for Jim Lee and Scott Snyder’s Superman Unchained and they look great and feature all of Superman’s supporting cast including Lois Lane. When the news of the variant covers first was announced Lois Lane was mentioned as only having a possible shared cover. That raised the ire of numerous fans (including myself) who let DC know through a Twitter campaign they wanted to see Lois get her due as well for the 75th. Sounds like DC listened because Lois is featured on a number of the anniversary covers.
The 1930s cover is by Bruce Timm and features a nod to Max Fleisher’s animated films as Superman battles robots while Lois looks on.
The Silver Age Variant by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez features Lois Lane, Superman and a Phone Booth.
The modern day cover is by Jerry Ordway and features Jimmy, Clark, Lois and Lex Luthor.
You can see the rest of the covers along with an interview with Dan DiDio over at IGN
75 Years of Lois Lane - A Chat with Jerry Ordway
April 18 marked 75 years since Action Comics #1 landed on the newsstand. In that issue Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel introduced the world to one of the most important women in comics - Lois Lane (Superman made his debut in that issue, too). To mark this anniversary I’m chatting with some of her creators to get their thoughts on the character and her place in comic history.You can see the previous pieces here. Today’s thoughts about Lois are from writer and artist Jerry Ordway. Ordway was key creator in the early years of the post-Crisis Lois Lane. He was an artist and writer working on both The Adventures of Superman and Superman in the late 80s/90s including the issues where Lois chooses to marry Clark Kent.
So Jerry, what’s your first memory of Lois Lane?
Lois Gives Braniac a Message in Superman Unbound, Well TWO Messages
Superman Unbound hits the store shelves on May 7, but you can buy it now on iTunes. As you can see from the clip above the movie showcases a fierce Lois Lane voiced by Stana Katic.
In the movie Lois meets face to face with Braniac and delivers an important message to him.
75 Years of Lois Lane: A Chat with Mindy Newell
This month marks 75 years since Action Comics #1 landed on the newsstand. In that issue Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel introduced the world to one of the most important women in comics - Lois Lane (Superman made his debut in that issue, too). To mark this anniversary I’m chatting with some of her creators to get their thoughts on the character and her place in comic history.You can see the previous pieces here. Today I am chatting with Mindy Newell who in addition to writing Wonder Woman and Catwoman for DC Comics also wrote a much acclaimed Lois Lane mini-series at the very end of the Bronze age. Mindy’s written about Lois in her column and she drew upon some of her thoughts for this piece.
So Mindy, what’s your first memory of Lois Lane?
I think that should be “memories,” Sue, since I can’t remember issue #’s, months, and years—hey, I was a kid, after all
I grew up on the Silver Age Lois in comics, she of the “Mamie Eisenhower” hairdo and suits and hats from the late 50’s and early 60’s (suits, nylons, pumps, hats and gloves were the de rigueur style for women back then, though I don’t remember Lois wearing gloves).
I didn’t like that she was always mooning over Superman and that her main raison d’être was to prove that Superman was Clark Kent. I didn’t like that Superman always managed to pull the wool over her eyes. It made her foolish. It was insulting. It was dumb. (I liked Lana Lang; she was spunky, she was Insect Queen, she was a member of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, and she just seemed smarter and not so constantly obsessed with Superman’s secret identity. I did say constantly.)
Still, even though some part of me didn’t like the way Lois behaved, some part of me did, because I avidly read her comic, SUPERMAN’S GIRLFRIEND, LOIS LANE, whenever I could find it. SGLL always seemed to feature: (1) “imaginary” stories in which Lois was “Mrs. Superman” or sometimes “Mrs. Kent”; (2) Lois discovering that Superman was in love with some other dame, usually her “arch-rival” Lana Lang, or if not Lana, some babe from another planet who had super-powers; (3) Lois spurning Superman for some other super-dude, usually—again!—from another planet; (4) Lois transforming into some weird version of herself just as Superman was about to propose. Hmm…there’s a theme here, but I just can’t figure it out!
75 Years of Lois Lane: A Chat with Colleen Coover
This month marks 75 years since Action Comics #1 landed on the newsstand. In that issue Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel introduced the world to one of the most important women in comics - Lois Lane (Superman made his debut in that issue, too). To mark this anniversary I’m chatting with some of her creators to get their thoughts on the character and her place in comic history.You can see the previous pieces here. Today I am chatting with multiple Eisner award nominee Colleen Coover who, with Paul Tobin, wrote the last standalone non-Elseworlds Lois Lane story that has appeared in comics for Superman 80 page Giant 2011 #1. She has also declared that she would “love to do a comic of Lois Lane as basically Nancy Drew with a press badge.”
75 Years of Lois Lane: A Chat with Kelly Sue DeConnick
This month marks 75 years since Action Comics #1 landed on the newsstand. In that issue Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel introduced the world to one of the most important women in comics - Lois Lane (Superman made his debut in that issue, too). To mark this anniversary I’m chatting with some of her creators to get their thoughts on the character and her place in comic history.You can see the previous pieces here. Today I am chatting with Kelly Sue DeConnick. While she is now writing Captain Marvel and Avengers Assemble for Marvel she once wrote an arc for Supergirl for DC Comics. During Emerald City Con she talked about how she took it as an opportunity to also write Lois. DeConnick also told me that Lois Lane is the only comic related thing she’s every collected and years ago she put out a ‘zine with a hostess called “Lois Slain” a la the Cryptkeeper.
So Kelly Sue, someone asks you “Who Lois Lane?” what do you say?
75 Years of Lois Lane: A Chat with Bryan Q. Miller
This month marks 75 years since Action Comics #1 landed on the newsstand. In that issue Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel introduced the world to one of the most important women in comics - Lois Lane (Superman made his debut in that issue, too). To mark this anniversary I’m chatting with some of her creators to get their thoughts on the character and her place in comic history. You can see the previous pieces here. Today I speak with Bryan Q. Miller who has written Lois for both TV and comics. Miller was a write and executive story editor on the Smallville TV show and last year launched the digital only (and now print and traded) comic Smallville Season 11.
So Bryan, what’s your first memory of Lois Lane?
75 Years of Lois Lane: A chat with Greg Rucka
Lois Lane made her debut in comics 75 years ago this week. To celebrate I’m chatting with a number of her creators. You can see the previous interviews here. Greg Rucka wrote Lois Lane as the head writer of Superman, Action Comics and Adventures of Superman which included a highly regarded arc where Lois Lane was an embedded reporter in the middle east.
He also has pitched a Lois Lane comic to DC. As there is no such book I’ll leave it to you to figure out the response.
So Greg, what’s your first memory of Lois Lane?
75 Years of Lois Lane: A chat with Kurt Busiek
Lois Lane made her first appearance in comics 75 years ago this week and I’m speaking to a number of her creators about her and her impact on comics. Kurt Busiek has written Lois Lane many times including in the arc “Up, Up and Away” which marks Clark Kent’s return to being Superman following One Year Later.
He also wrote an “Elseworlds” Lois in Superman: Secret Identity one of favorite comic series of all time. (More about this below.)
So Kurt, if someone asks you who Lois Lane is - what’s your answer?
Probably “Superman’s girlfriend,” because that’s how she was identified so often over the years.
But after that, I’d go on to say she’s a top reporter for the Daily Planet, a never-say-die investigator, that sort of thing.
Lois Lane 75th Anniversary Celebrated by Fans and Lois’ on Twitter and the Net
The fans who wanted to trend Lois Lane on Twitter last night to gain recognition for her 75th anniversary suceeded last night as tthe Twitter hashtage #LoisLane75yrs topped the Twitter Trending listings.
The two hour event organized by several fans and the tumblr FyeahSupermanandloislane took to Twitter to tweet out facts, trivia, their favorite moments and more. But it wasn’t just fans who Tweeted. Both Dana Delaney and Teri Hatcher also took part in the event.
Hatcher tweeted out photos and other memorobilia.
In addition to the Twitter event several blogs and comics sites also recognized that the 75th anniversary of Action Comics #1 was not just a Superman event.
Comic blogger and Robot6 columnist Michael May did an exhaustive history of Lois Lane on his blog.
Comics writer and Blogger Alaisdair Stuart looked at the music of Lois and Superman. It’s a fun read.
Tom Bondurant did a nice piece on the history of Lois Lane for Robot 6.
And if you didn’t see them I interview Superman biographer Larry Tye and Superman writer and artist Dan Jurgens about Lois. And I have a half dozen other interviews ready to go over the next days.
While DC has announced their plans to recognize Superman’s 75th anniversary, they have yet to announce what they will do for Lois Lane’s 75th. I look forward to seeing what they have planned.
75 Years of Lois Lane: A chat with Dan Jurgens
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Lois Lane’s first appearance in comics, I am speaking to several of the creators who have worked with Lois through the years as well as a Superman historian. Dan Jurgens has written (and drawn) Lois Lane many times over the past three decades most famously in The Death of Superman arc and the lead up and wedding of Lois and Superman. During Jurgens’ run Lois often had her own adventures
So Dan, what’s your first memory of Lois Lane?
75 Years of Lois Lane: Interview with Larry Tye, Author of Superman
Lois Lane first appeared in comics on April 8, 1938. To celebrate her 75th anniversary I’m running a series of interviews with creators and others familiar with the character. To kick off the series I have some thoughts from Larry Tye the writer of last year’s Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero a biography of the Man of Steel.
It’s an enjoyable and detail filled look at Superman’s past that the New York Times called “exhaustive account of Superman’s creation and the fantastical increase in his powers over time is full of luscious old-school moments.” I’ve seen Tye speak about Superman and he has contagious passion for the character. But what about Lois? Read on.
Larry, I’ve heard you talk about your first exposure to Superman but what’s your first memory of Lois Lane?
I am sure I read about her in the comics but my first memory of a Lois I can still remember is Noel Neill playing her in the 1950s TV series. And to this day, when I close my eyes and envision Lois, it is Noel I see. Those memories came back in spades when I hung out with Noel last summer, in Metropolis, IL, during the annual Superman festival.
If someone asks you who Lois Lane is - what’s your answer?
She’s Noel Neill.
She’s also a dynamic, butt-kicking reporter who asked the tough questions Clark never did and always got the story even as she was getting into trouble.
