Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #95 for Sale - First Appearance of Superwoman - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series)
Issue: #95
Publication date: September-October 1969
Key date: 1969-09-00
On-sale date: 1969-07-08
Indicia publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
Price: $0.25
Pages: 68
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Superwoman - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Firehair - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Strange Lives of Lois Lane!	cover	1	pencils: Curt Swan; inks: Neal Adams; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Superman
2	-	table of contents	1	script: E. Nelson Bridwell; pencils: Kurt Schaffenberger; inks: Kurt Schaffenberger	Lois Lane
3	Lois Lane's Super-Brain!	comic story	9	script: Robert Bernstein; pencils: Kurt Schaffenberger; inks: Kurt Schaffenberger	Bizarro, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Lucy Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Superman, Perry White
5	The Superwoman of Metropolis!	comic story	7.67	script: Alvin Schwartz; pencils: Kurt Schaffenberger; inks: Kurt Schaffenberger	Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Superman, Perry White, Superwoman First
7	Lois Lane, Slave Girl!	comic story	9	script: Robert Bernstein; pencils: Kurt Schaffenberger; inks: Kurt Schaffenberger	Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Superman
10	For Fun in July	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: Henry Scarpelli; inks: Henry Scarpelli	Binky Biggs
11	A New Giant is Born!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	script: Sheldon Mayer; pencils: Sheldon Mayer; inks: Sheldon Mayer	Sugar Plumm, Spike Wilson
12	The Widow in Black!	comic story	9	script: Leo Dorfman; pencils: Kurt Schaffenberger; inks: Kurt Schaffenberger	Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White
13	Civilized: or Savage? You Decide!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: Joe Kubert; inks: Joe Kubert; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Firehair First
14	It's the Day of Supergirl's Electronic Romance!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: Curt Swan; inks: Murphy Anderson; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Kara Zor-El, Clark Kent, Supergirl, Superman
17	The Madam Jekyll of Metropolis!	comic story	9	script: Leo Dorfman; pencils: Kurt Schaffenberger; inks: Kurt Schaffenberger	Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Lucy Lane, Lana Lang, Jimmy Olsen, Professor Phineas Potter, Superman, Perry White
19	Lois Lane, Hag!	comic story	9.67	script: Leo Dorfman; pencils: Kurt Schaffenberger; inks: Kurt Schaffenberger	Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Lucy Lane, Lana Lang, Superman, Perry White
21	Great Sun of Krypton-- Why?	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: Neal Adams; inks: Neal Adams; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Clark Kent, Superboy
22	Orbit the Weird Worlds of...	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: Joe Kubert; inks: Joe Kubert; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Alanna Strange, Adam Strange

Plus 9.66 pages of advertisements and other matter across 13 sequences, as published.

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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