Cover: Win Mortimer

Action Comics #172

Sep 1952 · DC · 0.10 USD

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“Lois Lane... Witch!”

In "Lois Lane... Witch!", Lois Lane stumbles upon a mysterious jeweled ornament while doing Clark Kent a favor—laundry duty—only to find herself caught in a series of strange coincidences that make her believe she’s cursed. Thinking she’s developed a supernatural knack for causing trouble, she takes it upon herself to go after criminals who’ve slipped through the law, aided secretly by Superman. The ornament, it turns out, was no ordinary trinket—it was placed in baby Kal-El’s rocket by his father, Jor-el, as a defense mechanism against meteors, capable of weakening iron. Art by Al Plastino, with cover by Win Mortimer.

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In actually doing Clark a good deed by taking his dirty shirts to the laundry, Lois finds a small jeweled ornament which has fallen from a pocket. Several coincidences convince her that she has become a jinx, so she decides to use her new "power" to harass criminals who are beyond the law. With the hidden aid of Superman she succeeds in intimidating several crooked characters. The jeweled ornament, we learn, was put in baby Kal-el's rocket by his father, Jor-el, to destroy any threatening meteors, as it has the property to weaken iron.

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