You all voted, now here, as part of our celebration of Lois Lane and Superman's 80th Anniversary, are the results of what you chose as the 40 Greatest Lois Lane Stories!

Enjoy!

10. "With This Ring..." (Superman #168/Detective Comics #756)

This clever crossover between Jeph Loeb/Ed McGuinness/Cam Smith's Superman and Greg Rucka/Shawn Martinrbough/Steve Mitchell's Detective Comics saw Lois Lane decide to do something about the fact that President Lex Luthor had the kryptonite ring that Superman had entrusted with Batman (after Luthor originally had it) before Luthor got his hands on it again.

I really like how McGuinness and Smith and the colorist really try to evoke the feel of a Batman story, with McGuinness doing a bit of a Tim Sale riff (the Detective Comics issue had the fill-in artists Coy Turnbull and Dan Davis as the art team).

9. "Who Killed Lucy Lane?" (Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #120)

A recurring theme in Lois Lane's solo series was the idea that there really should be something MORE to it all and so writers would regularly come up with ideas to dramatically shift the series in different directions. Few of these changes would last, but a number of them would at least make for good stories in the short term. A perfect example of this would be "Who Killed Lucy Lane?" by Cary Bates, Werner Roth and Vince Colletta, based on an idea by Irene Vartanoff.

The concept is that Lucy Lane, who had been a flight attendant in the comics for years, disappears on a flight to South America. Lois goes to look for her sister and discovers, to her shock and dismay that Lucy is a spy working for the evil organization known as The 100. She met a guy and decided to try to make a new start for herself and she was murdered. This was super hardcore stuff for a Lois Lane story of the era...

Once Lucy's murderers are taken into custody, Lois decides that she has to make changes in her life. Mostly they involve her getting an apartment with wacky roommates and tying her more into the adventures of Rose and Thorn, who starred in the backup feature in the book at the time.

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8. "Unconventional Warfare" (Adventures of Superman #627-632)

In Greg Rucka’s opening arc on Adventures of Superman, he has Lois Lane risk her life on the frontlines by reporting on a conflict in the Middle Eastern country known as Umec. Matthew Clark, Paul Pelletier and Nelson delivered the artwork for the story. The story contrasted Superman dealing with a new villain called Ruin while Lois is overseas risking her life covering the war.

When a sniper attacks the soldiers Lois is stationed with and then an explosion leaves them open targets, Lois decides that she has to risk her life to help the soldiers...

Things don't go well and there's a great issue where we see just what would happen to other superheroes when Superman's wife gets shot.

7. "Superman Takes a Wife" (Action Comics #484)

Wow, what an amazing cover, right?

The first and perhaps the best marriage between Superman and Lois Lane, this story (by Cary Bates, Curt Swan and Joe Giella) works under an intriguing premise of Clark Kent losing his memory of being Superman. No longer knowing that he has to keep his Clark Kent meek and mild-mannered, Clark becomes bolder and eventually woos and marries Lois Lane (who, in a nice twist from writer Cary Bates, discovers that Clark is Superman before Clark even realizes it!).