SUPERMAN’S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #73

Cover shows moderate wear typical of a Silver Age book: some spine stress lines visible along the left edge, mild corner softening at top right, and slight surface wear/scuffing across the green background. Colors remain bright with no major fading or staining visible, and there's no evidence of tears or writing on the cover. The book is in a protective sleeve which obscures fine surface detail; interior pages and back cover were not assessed.

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #73 arrived in April 1966 as part of DC's long-running solo title built around Lois Lane's romantic entanglements, transformation gimmicks, and imaginary-story plots involving Superman. The series, edited by Mort Weisinger with scripts frequently supplied by Jerry Siegel and art handled by Kurt Schaffenberger, specialized in lighthearted melodrama rather than superhero action, and issue #73 fits squarely into that house formula without introducing any new character, origin, or story element that price guides or collector consensus treat as historically pivotal.

The certified population for this issue is small across the board, with the top recorded grade sitting at 9.6 and only a handful of sales feeding the available fair-market-value data. That scarcity of both copies and transaction history means pricing rests on a narrow data set, and the modest FMV recorded at the top of the census reflects the title's status as a durable but secondary Silver Age DC book rather than a heavily chased key. Demand is steady among Lois Lane and Superman-family completists and Silver Age DC collectors building out the run, rather than driven by first-appearance or landmark-story buyers.

Collecting activity on this issue is likely to remain concentrated among run-builders and Superman-family specialists rather than investment-driven key hunters. Lower and mid-grade raw copies should continue to trade as inexpensive backfill within longer collections, while the very top of the certified population, given its extreme scarcity, carries a disproportionate premium reflecting the difficulty of finding or grading a copy higher than what has already been certified.