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!

20. "Superman's Fiancee, Lois Lane" (Superman #59)

After the engagement of Lois and Lane and Clark Kent, there was then the period when she found out that Clark was Superman. So that, then, had to slowly dawn on Lois that, while she was seemingly okay with the idea, she had to at least concede that this was now a much different situation and in "Superman's Fiancee, Lois Lane," by Dan Jurgens and Brett Breeding, Lois asks Superman to take her far away so that they could have a frank discussion and allow her to really truly understand him...

Jurgens really did such marvelous work with their relationship during this period.

19. "Superman's Phony Manager" (Action Comics #6)

This Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster (and I'm sure some art helpers) story is notable as it is the first time we really get to see Lois Lane flex her investigative muscles and also see how ruthless she can be while she is chasing a story, as a man claiming to be Superman's manager prepares to have Clark Kent meet Superman, but Lois decides she needs to have that story, so she figures out a way to screw Clark over...

And, of course, when she is confronted with the story, Lois is savvy to their scheme...

That, though, leads to her being in mortal peril, but that's just what Superman is here for, people!

18. "Lois Lane's Super-Perfect Crime" (Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #59)

In this bizarre story by Jerry Siegel and Kurt Schaffenberger, Lois Lane is given a serum by aliens that will make her invulnerable, so Superman has no explanation for why he could no longer marry her. And when he PERSISTS, well, then we learn why it is a good thing that Lois Lane never became a supervillain...

The explanation for why Superman is not actually dead is a clever enough one, to be honest. In any event, this trip into Lois Lane's dark side was a real treat. A weird treat, but a treat nevertheless!

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17. "The War Within" (Superman Adventures #11-12)

Scott McCloud really had an excellent run on Superman Adventures, the comic book series based on the Superman animated series of the mid-1990s. In this classic two-parter (with art by Rick Burchett and Terry Austin), the first issue has Superman seemingly doing less and less crimefighting. Lois Lane sniffs a scoop and decides to investigate why Superman seems to be less interesting in fighting crime. She really starts to tear into the "lazy" hero in the Daily Planet until Professor Hamilton unloads on her while she is trying to get theories from him as to why Superman would stop caring. As it turns out, Superman caught a deadly Kryptonian virus from a recent Kryptonite attack by some random bad guy and he is slowly dying, with his powers weakening along the way. Hence him doing less crimefighting. There is a chance to cure him, but it involves getting a rare element that is only found in the middle of a Eastern European war. A chastened Lois Lane insists that she goes along on the mission to get the element and then she fights her way back to the United States, Nellie Bly-style (Nellie Bly's attempt to replicate 80 Days Around the World has got to be an influence on McCloud here, right? He shows Lois taking all sorts of absurd modes of travel to get back home to save Superman)....

In one last awesome twist, it seems like Superman's doctor is in the pocket of the bad guys, but will he really let Superman die?

16. "Secrets in the Night" (Action Comics #662 plus Superman #53, really)

This one is tricky, because everyone who voted for this one specifically voted for "Secrets in the Night," which is part one of the story that finishes in "Truth, Justice and the American Way," so I think we should count them together, but whatever, in any event, a few months after Clark Kent and Lois Lane got engaged, Clark finally has to reveal another little secret to Lois in this story by Roger Stern and Bob McLeod...

When did her cat get written out of the comic, by the way?