Originally Posted by
Jim Kelly
With the Classic Superman, I feel that most of us had a sense of how Superman's whole life story would work out (well two possible paths). The dominant stories were set in the middle of Superman's life, but there were stories that showed him as a baby, a teen, and a college student, and there were other stories that showed his possible future. And this made it obvious that Superman was most likely to marry Lois and that Lois would get superpowers. If there had been a close-ended novel of Superman that's how it would go. And then in the distant future there would be descendents of Superman who also were champions of Earth (as many in-continuity and out of continuity stories showed)--probably related to both Superman and Lois Lane.
Of course, the other possible path was that Superman would die.
To me--given we knew it was likely Superman would marry Lois some day, once Lois had her own powers and wasn't in danger--there was no need for that to happen in the present moment of the stories. The present was about the thrilling tension between two possible outcomes--death or marriage. Once either of these happened, all the thrill would be gone.