SUPERMAN’S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #67

This pre-1977 Silver Age issue shows moderate wear consistent with a mid-grade copy: visible spine stress lines and a couple of small ticks along the spine, soft/rounded corners, and light edge wear along the cover borders. There is a vertical crease running through the upper right portion of the cover near the CCA stamp area, and general handling creases are visible across the surface. The book appears to be in a protective sleeve, which limits full assessment of surface gloss; interior pages and back cover were not visible and were not assessed.

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #67 arrived in August 1966 amid the long DC run built around Lois Lane as the perennial pursuer of Superman's secret identity and hand in marriage. The series was a mainstay of DC's Silver Age line, mixing romance-comic conventions with superhero plotting, and by the mid-1960s had settled into a formula of imaginary stories, disguises, and schemes involving Lois, Superman, and supporting cast members like Lana Lang. Issue #67 is a representative entry from this stretch rather than a storyline with a first appearance, origin, or other landmark event, and it is best understood as a solid example of the title's house style during its most prolific creative period, with Kurt Schaffenberger's clean, expressive linework typifying the era's cover and interior art.

Market data for the issue shows a typical Silver Age back-issue curve: modest, thinly traded values through the mid grades, a meaningful step up entering the 9.2-9.4 range, and then a pronounced premium at 9.6, the highest grade currently certified, where recent sales have clustered tightly around $340-350. That tightening of recent sale prices at the top of the census, paired with a complete absence of any 9.8 to date, points to real scarcity in top-tier survivors rather than heavy across-the-board demand. Demand for the book is driven primarily by Lois Lane and Silver Age Superman-family completists and by cover-art collectors drawn to Schaffenberger's work, rather than by first-appearance or key-issue buyers.

As a collecting target, the book trades as a bread-and-butter Silver Age title: readily available in low and mid grades at modest prices, with value concentrating sharply in high-grade certified copies where population thins out. Set builders assembling a run of the Lois Lane title will find raw copies an inexpensive fill, while grade-focused buyers chasing census-topping examples should expect a steep premium once above 9.4, with any future 9.8 likely to command a strong price given the current absence of one on the census.