Reign of the Supermen #191: Ugly Superman

Source: Superman vol.1 #126 (1959)
Type: DisguiseIn the category "Stories in which Superman is cruel to Lois Lane"...

It all starts when Lois double-books a date. She promised a friend she'd go on a blind date with some dude, and two hours later has a date scheduled with Superman. To get rid of the blind date as quickly as possible, she makes herself ugly.
Fine, but Clark sees her in that get-up and recognizes her (he's peeped at her with x-ray vision often enough, he'd know those... bones... anywhere). Not cool, Lois, he thinks, so he'll teach her a lesson and here it is: On their super-date, he asks her to marry him. It's the happiest day of her life!!! Then he takes her to an apartment he rented that evening, and takes off his "mask" to reveal his secret identity. He's apparently Alfred E. Newman. Suddenly, Lois isn't so sure if she loves him cuz really, what an ugoid! Boo hoo!
With the Daily Planet girls laughing at her, she tries to keep the dates discreet as she gives his marriage proposal "some thought". After he gets shot in the face by thugs and quickly "puts on his mask", Lois' intuition kicks into high gear. She KNOWS! So the next day, she says YES. OOPS! Superman always has a Plan B however. He says she must show up for the wedding at a specific time, one minute late and he'll know she hesitated and the wedding is OFF. And of course when she shows up, he welds her car doors shut to keep her from reaching the chapel on time.

So that big picture of Superman getting shot in the face? (Yes, I know that's not how photography WORKS!) Lois noticed he protected his face when he got shot that night, but in her creepy wall poster, he obviously has no trouble take a handful of lead without flinching (don't you just hate it when people close their eyes during picture-taking?). It doesn't explain why she's still after him after he's toyed with her emotions though...

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