Originally Posted by
Jim Kelly
The bio you give is the one that has slowly developed over the last couple of decades (with some exceptions for shifts in continuities and realities). So it might now be time for a writer to sit down and look at all the collective material and bring it together in a comprehensive back story.
This Lois Lane is a new version of the character. Other Loises Lane have had different histories.
It seems to me the original Lois was just a normal city girl, who got herself on the local paper. She was good, but not all that successful given the male prejudices of the day. Her life didn't really change until a certain Mr. Kent, with no experience, beat her out for a plumb job on the paper, while she was forced to write for the sob sister page. On the same day that Kent guy elbowed her, a circus strongman showed up on the streets of the city, juggling gunsels and cars like they were Indian clubs. Now there was a real man, not some simp like that no-good Kent--and a fella she could write stories on, if she sidled up to him real cute and wheedled tales of his adventures out of him. That guy, that Super Man, he was her ticket--and so as of ACTION COMICS No.1, the origin of Lois Lane, girl reporter, begins.
We can assume that this Lois had an older sister married to a guy named Tompkins, as they had a young daughter named Susie Tompkins. I get the impression that Lois grew up in Metropolis--and that maybe her father was a newspaper man, which is why she was hungry to work in the same field.
A few later comics from the 1950s and 1960s (re Clark Kent's younger days) have various contradictory stories of how a young Clark and/or Lana met the young Lois, from Pittsdale, who wanted to someday be a reporter. This Lois grew up in a house that had a small farm out back, but was within the town limits of Pittsdale, which was near an air force base--but Sam and Ella Lane seem to have made their living from their farm. As Lois' younger sister, Lucy, would become a flight attendant, the sisters may have hung around the air force base and pilots, giving Lucy the bug for flying.
Again this version of Lois Lane presumably had a regular sort of life up until the day she met Superman. It's after meeting Superman that she acquires many skills--like learning Kryptonian martial arts--and her investigations cause strange transformations. A lot of beefcake from across time, space and other dimensions beat a path to her door--hoping to win her affections away from the Man of Steel. She's constantly going on time trips, wandering into other dimensions, leaving for other worlds. But all this is a consequence of knowing the Man of Tomorrow. He's the cause of her strange existence.