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!

40. "Lois' Super-Gamble" (Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #56)

I believe this is the only Lois vs. Lana story on the list, and it's just as good of an example as any of them, I suppose! This story has Lois try to get rid of Lana as a rival to Superman by setting her up with a new superhero in town, Ideal-Man. Lana knows that Lois is trying to manipulate her, but Ideal-Man is so, well, ideal that she goes along with it. However, there is naturally a twist that reveals that Superman knew about their scheme the whole time...

Jerry Siegel wrote it and Kurt Schaffenberger drew it.

39. "Whom Gods Destroy" (Superman/Wonder Woman: Whom Gods Destroy #1-4)

In this intriguing Elseworlds story by Chris Claremont, Dusty Abell and Drew Geraci, the conceit is that Superman and Lois Lane debuted at their original times that they did in the comics, only the two major changes are that the Nazis won the war (partially due to the Greek Gods and the Amazonians backing the Nazis) and Superman doesn't age due to him being an immortal. So now we pick up in the present, where an old Lois Lane is pulled into a scheme between the good Greek Gods and the evil ones. Lois is pretty awesome here...

She ends up gaining superpowers and becomes the new Wonder Woman.

38. "My Death...By Lois Lane" (Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #115)

In one of the oddest cameos that you can imagine, this great little Robert Kanigher story features the then-newly introduced Black Racer from Jack Kirby's Fourth World as a sort of silent guest star as Lois receives a typewriter that seemingly predicts future deaths...

The trouble gets worse when it seems to predict her OWN death!

Luckily, Superman saves her and then we learn that the mystery typewriter was an alien trap meant to kill Superman, not Lois. The crazy thing is that the story is pretty silent on who was behind this plot.

Werner Roth and Vince Colletta drew the story.

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37. "Black Dawn" (Superman #20-25)

When Superman and Lois Lane, along with their son Jon, showed up in the New 52 following the death of the New 52 Superman, they initially stayed to themselves on an isolated farm away from the rest of the busy world. Eventually, they re-adopted their Metropolis lives. This story shows how they went back to Metropolis, as it turns out that their neighbors are all actually aliens in secret who have a plot involving Lois and Clark's son.

The whole story was written by Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason, with Gleason and Dough Mahnke drawing most of the story. Lois has an awesome sequence when she discovers that her neighbors are plotting against her and, well, don't mess with Lois Lane!

36. "Who Killed Superwoman?" (Superwoman #1-7)

As noted, the New 52 Superman died, which led to the Pre-Flashpoint Lois and Clark returning to the New 52. Of course, as it turned out, it was a lot more complicated than just Lois and Clark from Pre-Flashpoint replacing their New 52 selves, but at the time, that's basically what we knew.

So New 52 Lois and Lana Lang then decided to take up the "Super" mantle in the wake of Superman's death and both became Superwoman. The problem is that it did not work out so well for Lois in the first issue (the opening arc was written and mostly drawn by Phil Jimenenz, along with Jack Herbert)...

The rest of the arc was dealing with WHO killed Lois and establishing Lana as Superwoman. It was a fun series.