10 Terrible Comic Book Covers DC Want You To Forget
3. Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane #106
When it comes to infamous DC comic books, they don't get much worse than Lois Lane #106, written during the 1970s. "Blackface" was still just as offensive in the seventies as it is today, which is why it was so odd that DC chose to greenlight this story.
In a story titled "I am Curious (Black!)," Lois was having trouble getting the people in Little Africa to talk to her on record. She asked for Superman's help, which he provided with his Plastimold Machine, which turned Lois Lane into a black woman. She was then free to interview anyone she wished.
This sort of story wasn't new when it was published and it stuck around for a long time after, but having it pop up in a Superman comic book this way was both crass and ignorant. Good intentions or not, all it did was remain as an example of what not to do when telling a story, and of one best left in the past.