We begin with our cover-story, "When You're Dead, You're Dead" by Robert Kanigher, Irv Novick and Mike Esposito. While covering an international parade of rare animals for the Daily Planet, Lois Lane meet is rescued from an attacking tiger by the turbaned Rajah Satdev from Nepalunda. He invites Lois to dinner, which she agrees to as long as she can interview him as well. He tells Lois that back in his home, he is worshipped and admired but that no woman has ever moved his heart, till he laid eyes on Lois,.
ON their way to dinner they hear a bulletin of how Clark Kent has scooped another Superman story and Lois comment that she would sell her soul to the devil for such a scoop. Just then a lightning bold appears out of nowhere and destroys a sky-scraper in front of them. Superman appears and puts the sky-scraper back together. Lois gets photos and asks Rajah to take her to the Daily Planet so she can file her scoop.
That night while Lois and Rajah are enjoying dinner, the city is hit by a blackout. Rajah suggest that perhaps if she made another wish to the devil, the lights would go back on. Suddenly the lights in the restaurant go back on, but the rest of the city remains dark. Meanwhile, Superman has repaired the power grid and while waiting for the lights to go back on, is drawn to the only place where they are working and sees Lois and Rajah together. For dessert Lois gets a flambé that will not light until she wished it would and Rajah gets Devil's Food Cake.
The next day the two go to the beach and Rajah has Lois go in the water first while he removes his slippers. In the water Rajah kisses Lois and she suddenly feels chilled. While Rajah continues swimming, Lois goes back to the beach where she sees cloven-hooved footprints in the sand that suddenly disappear in the blowing wind. When he gest back to the beach, Rajah drinks what he says is a special elixir made just for him. When Rajah nods off, Lois takes a sip to see what it is like and suddenly feels light-headed.
Wanting to see what Rajah looks like without his turban, Lois removes it to find Rajah 's head adorned with horns. As she takes off his slippers, revealing his hooved feet, Rajah awakens and tells Lois she will pay for what she has done and blasts her with some sort of beam from his ring. A look in a mirror reveals that Lois now has horns as well.
Just then, Superman is flying by with Lana Lang. A fight ensues between Superman and Rajah and when Rajah shoot Superman with the same lightning bolts that toppled the sky-scraper, they bounce off of Superman and kill Lois. This brings us to our cover and the story is concluded next issue.
We follow that with "The Cry-Baby of Metropolis" drawn by Kurt Schaffenberger and reprinted from Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #10. Lois dreams that Superman has left her and upon awakening realizes she has not dated him in weeks and worries that she might be getting too old to attract him. The next day, she and Clark visit Metropolis Research Laboratory to see Professor Lockhart's new invention, a machine that can restore youth to animals. Clark disappears and Superman arrives to look at another invention of the professor's, leaving Lois alone with the youth machine.
Lois Lane uses the machine on herself in hopes that it will make her look a few years younger. Only then does she overhear that the problem with the machine is it never stops making you younger. Only a massive dose of x-rays seems to shop the machines effects.
Lois wakes up the next day as a teenager teenager. Lois tries to get Superman to use his X-ray vision on her secretly, which would restore her to normal, but nothing she plans actually results in x-rays being used. Finally she decides to confess to Superman, but she has grown too young to speak. Superman then tells her that he knew what she had done all along, and had faked the conversation she overheard. His x-rays do noting to affect the youth-plunge she now finds herself in, but that he has the real antidote and gives it to her hoping that Lois has learned her lesson.
Edited by Mort Weisinger.
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