Lois Lane Adventures

Thinking on Superman's past, the time when he was a boy in Smallville...you wouldn't think of Lois Lane.  

Yet, oddly enough, even though Superboy's time then was more spent with Lana Lang, still Lois Lane did end up in SuperBOY's life a little bit!

How Clark Kent Met Lois Lane

In Adventure Comics #128 (May, 1948) with a cover by Win Mortimer, and story by Bill Finger, Al Wenzel and George Roussos, here is where Clark and Lois first met.  Clark had begun to write for his school newspaper, and won a contest to be a cub reporter for the Daily Planet in Metropolis for a week.  There, he met another winner, a young girl from the midwest, Lois Lane.  

The two became involved in a competition to get a story printed (and for an ice cream), and, Lois, wandering into trouble, needed to be saved by Superboy, allowing her the time to get the story, so she got two scoops!

For completeness' sake, including this cover to Adventure Comics #211 (April, 1955) by Win Mortimer, but Lois is only in this one in a dream as an adult, and one flashback to the story above.  

Lois is  also in a few Superboy issues, but....those will be tales for another day.

Superboy Meets Lois Lane!

Superboy and Lois met again in Adventure Comics #261 (June, 1959) with a story by Otto Binder and George Papp, under a Curt Swan and Stan Kaye cover.  Here, Lois comes to Camp Hiawatha, which is near Smallville, with hopes of meeting Superboy.  She ends up with Lana Lang as a roommate (who is infatuated with Superboy).  Clark is also staying at the camp on the boys' side, and comes across the girls whose lunch attracted a bear.  

Changing into Superboy, he saves the girls and talks to Lois and Lana, where Lana is convinced Superboy is one of the boys at the lake.  Lois joins with Lana, but to prevent Lana from finding out Superboy's identity.  The two have some interesting adventures, with Clark thinking fast on how to preserve his identity (including calling on Krypto).  Lois even earns an acceptance to a dance.  Lana, furious, thinks of exposing Superboy to Kryptonite to find out his identity, but decides against it.  For that, Superboy accepts her invitation to the dance too!  But, Superboy is shrewd, he ends up going with neither girl, as he saw that during their time in the forest, the two were exposed to poison ivy, so they both can't go!

From these simple beginnings, a romance blossomed, and if you want to read the stories, look to these issues for reprints!