{"id":3347,"date":"2021-03-12T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2021-12-02T12:39:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:39:14","slug":"599-lois-marries-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/599-lois-marries-superman\/","title":{"rendered":"599 &#8211; Lois Marries Superman?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"402\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lois-dream-1.png\" alt=\"A panel from Action Comics #206, May 1955\" class=\"wp-image-3348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lois-dream-1.png 402w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lois-dream-1-258x300.png 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Action Comics #206, May 1955<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Forty-one years before DC comics had the balls to actually make it happen, Lois tells the story of how she married Superman in Action Comics #206 (May 1955). She relates the story to the reader, a rare departure for DC Comics in which they break the fourth wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"548\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lois-dream-2.png\" alt=\"Another panel from Action Comics #206, May 1955\" class=\"wp-image-3350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lois-dream-2.png 548w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lois-dream-2-300x253.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><figcaption>Another panel from Action Comics #206, May 1955<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Readers may have been scratching their heads as to how this can actually be happening, but of course seeing Clark at the wedding with Superman should have been a dead giveaway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"346\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lois-dream-3.png\" alt=\"It was only a dream in Action Comics #206, May 1955\" class=\"wp-image-3351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lois-dream-3.png 346w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lois-dream-3-247x300.png 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><figcaption>It was only a dream in Action Comics #206, May 1955<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It was only a dream! And every kid who bought the magazine thought to themselves, <em>what a rip-off!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DC got better at this over the years, realizing they needed to tell out-of-continuity stories to keep their readers interested. In later years, they would just tell the reader up-front that this is an &#8220;imaginary story&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-one years before DC comics had the balls to actually make it happen, Lois tells the story of how she married Superman in Action Comics #206 (May 1955). She relates the story to the reader, a rare departure for DC Comics in which they break the fourth wall. Readers may have been scratching their heads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[565,271,14,488,574,11,573,43],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-565","tag-continuity","tag-dc","tag-dreams","tag-imaginary-story","tag-lois-lane","tag-marriage","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3658,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/3658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}