SUPERMAN’S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE #93

The photographed page is the first interior/splash page bearing the indicia block (title, issue number 93, July 1969, National Periodical Publications), not the actual front cover of the book — this indicates the physical front cover is missing, making this a coverless copy. Per standard grading convention a coverless book is capped at 0.3 regardless of the apparent condition of the interior pages shown, which here display typical age tanning, some edge nicks, and a visible spine/staple area. Interior story pages beyond this splash and the back cover were not assessed.

Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #93 arrived in the summer of 1969 as part of DC's long-running solo vehicle for Superman's most persistent love interest, a title that spent the 1960s mixing romantic farce, transformation gimmicks, and Silver Age plot contrivances built around Lois's obsession with proving her worth to the Man of Steel. This particular issue is a standard entry in that run, without a first appearance, death, or landmark creative statement attached to it; it reflects the era's house style, typically pencilled by Werner Roth and inked by Vince Colletta under DC's editorial oversight of the Superman line, with covers in this stretch of the series frequently supplied by Neal Adams, whose dynamic composition work on Lois Lane in the late 1960s is now more remembered than most of the interior stories themselves.

The certified population is modest and thinly traded: roughly sixty CGC Universal copies span the grading scale, with no 9.8 yet recorded and only a handful of sales at any single grade point. Pricing sits low and relatively flat through the mid grades, with raw-equivalent 5.0-6.0 copies settling around the same $60 mark seen for 7.5 material, before climbing more steeply from 8.0 upward as the population thins and demand concentrates on the handful of high-grade survivors. That shape is typical of a common late Silver Age back issue: cheap and plentiful in reading condition, but with real separation opening up once a copy clears 9.0.

This is a book for Superman-family and Lois Lane run collectors rather than speculative buyers, and it trades accordingly — inexpensively in low and mid grade as a completist purchase, with meaningful premiums reserved for the rare high-grade certified copy where census scarcity, not story content, drives the price. Absent a documented 9.8 sale, the top of the market remains speculative and will be set by whichever copy eventually clears that grade.