SUPERMAN’S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #57

Cover shows moderate wear consistent with a mid-1960s book: soft corners, mild edge wear along the right and bottom edges, and a subtle vertical crease/waviness visible near the spine area. Colors remain bright with no major fading or staining visible, and there's a small stress mark near the top-left binding edge. Interior and back cover were not assessed, so overall grade could shift with additional information.

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #57 (DC Comics, cover-dated May 1965) is a standard entry in DC's long-running Silver Age spin-off title built around Lois Lane's romantic entanglements with Superman and her recurring rivalry with Lana Lang. The series specialized in imaginary-story premises, transformation plots, and light domestic melodrama, with Kurt Schaffenberger serving as the title's signature artist through most of its 1960s run, giving these covers and interiors their distinctive, clean house style. No major first appearance, origin, or landmark creative milestone is associated with this specific issue.

Market data shows a typical mid-run Silver Age demand curve: modest, steady pricing through the mid grades (7.5 through 9) followed by a sharp premium climb at the top of the census, where only a handful of copies exist above 9.2 and none have been certified at 9.8 or higher. The jump from 9.4 to 9.6 nearly doubles value on a single recorded sale, reflecting how thin population reports at the top end can move price disproportionately even without a large sales sample. Demand is driven less by any key-issue narrative and more by Silver Age Superman-family completism and Schaffenberger's collector following.

This book trades as a bread-and-butter title-run issue rather than a spotlight key: raw copies in low and mid grades serve completists filling out the Lois Lane series, while high-grade certified copies attract registry-minded buyers chasing census-topping slots given the scarcity of anything above 9.4. Expect steady but unspectacular movement at lower grades and stronger, more volatile pricing at the top of the grade scale as the handful of 9.6 copies (and any eventual 9.8) change hands.