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More "Superman Is A Dick" (Part 2)
Read the previous entry first for an explanation.


Clark takes a break from tormenting Lois for awhile. This time he's trying to "help out" a woman who lives in a run-down tenement building. While researching for this story on poor tenement conditions, he comes across a particularly dirty racket:

Note that rather than take out the loan himself, he has her do it. I doubt she'd have been so eager to help, if she'd known his big plan was to purposely lose all the money. And how does Clark respond when she is justifiably concerned about what just happened?:




A little tidbit I bet you never knew -- at one point in the early days, Superman actually got tired of saving Lois all the time, and started giving her crap about it:



This directly follows the previous strip:



Note the title above of the strip, if you didn't already see it. I guess a woman's place is dangling from a chandelier?

Perhaps Lois has some special abilities of her own, because somehow she manages to escape from that:



But only for her to manage to get in the way again (just after Superman issues the villain a particularly violent threat):



I'd scan the next strip, where she manages to get away from the guy on her own...but it's only for her to immediately fall in the path of a tank and need saving anyways -- pfft. ;-P