“Lois Lane’s Outlaw Son!” – January 1964
Okay, here we go. It’s the (imaginary) future and Lois Lane is now Lois Luthor, widow of a reformed Lex, and mother to Larry, a space buccaneer (!) called Black Luthor. Lois is suitably embarrassed by her son and spends her time crying and watching her son’s criminal exploits via a creepy peeping tom machine and hanging around with Superman, his wife, Super-Lana, and their daughter named (I shit you not) Joan Superman. Soon, Joan gets the hots for Larry and decides to reform him with magic lipstick that fails to work, leaving Joan to utter, in true Silver Age fashion, “That evil-removing chemical I put into my lipstick, then placed on my lips, should’ve reformed you instantly when my lips touched yours!” Turns out Joan kissed a Luthor robot that Larry keeps around for just such occasions. Larry captures Joan to use as a hostage while planning his revenge against Superman. You see, Larry’s hair fell out due to a rare substance Larry himself built into his own Superman detecting helmet, meaning that Superman must die, naturally. Meanwhile, Larry’s evil crew mutinies for vague reasons and they strand Larry on a desolate planet. Lois flies off in a rocket to save Larry, crashes, and almost dies. Larry saves her and is so moved that he turns good, develops an anti-evil chamber to turn him good, modifies the chamber into a ray, uses it on his crew, saves the Earth, and marries Joan. Man, I love comics.
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