Thursday, July 7, 2016

LANE PASSING

RIP to the ever-perky Noel Neill, passed on at 95


Neill was the first screen Lois Lane, playing the role opposite Kirk Alyn in the movies and George Reeves on TV. Just a few weeks ago I happened to be reading this Giant Lois Lane Annual #2 from 1963…


…and among the wonderfully bizarre (and deeply condescending!) stories, reprints from Superman’s Girl Friend, Lois Lane, was a full-page bio of Neill, noting that, ironically, her original ambition was to be a journalist.

Anyway, in Neill’s honor…

Monster-of-the-Week: …this week the nod goes to this off-the-wall creature, probably drawn by DC’s Kurt Schaffenberger, from the set of a sci-fi movie in one of the tales in that comic...



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