SUPERMAN’S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #61

This pre-1977 book has significant wear: heavy spine stress with multiple color-breaking creases and a small piece missing at the top spine edge, plus visible fraying along the left edge. There's writing/marking near the top left corner and moderate surface wear and rubbing throughout the cover art, along with soft/rounded corners. The book is in a protective sleeve; interior pages and back cover were not assessed.

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #61 is a mid-1960s installment of DC's long-running Lois Lane solo title, part of the Superman family of books that thrived on lighthearted romantic misadventure, gimmick transformations, and Lois's perennial schemes to prove her worth to Superman or unmask Clark Kent. Kurt Schaffenberger's clean, expressive linework defined the visual identity of this series through the era, giving Lois a consistent look across dozens of issues built around domestic comedy and soap-opera plotting rather than superheroics. Issue #61 carries no first appearance, death, or origin significance and is not cited in price guides as a notable cover or story; it is representative stock from a well-regarded but non-key run.

Market data reflects a typical low-population Silver Age secondary title: certified copies are scarce across the grading spectrum, with only a handful of slabs recorded at any given grade and a single 9.8 sale anchoring the top of the curve near $1,700. Pricing rises sharply and non-linearly toward the top grades, a pattern common to books with thin submission volume, where each incremental grade point removes much of the remaining competitive supply. Raw copies in lower and mid grades trade as commodity Silver Age filler, valued more for completeness of a Lois Lane or Superman-family run than for standalone demand.

This issue suits collectors assembling a complete run of the Lois Lane title, Schaffenberger art collectors, or Superman-family completists rather than key-issue investors. Lower and mid-grade raw copies move steadily but modestly through comic shops, conventions, and online marketplaces as run-fillers, while pristine 9.8 slabs command outsized premiums driven almost entirely by scarcity at the top of the census rather than story or cover significance. Expect price appreciation to concentrate at the high end of the grading scale, with little differentiation in demand across the low-to-mid raw range.