Comic Title: Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #81
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: February 1968
On Sale Date: December 21, 1967 Newsstand Date December 21, 1967
Source: House Ad, Metal Men #30, Page 19

Newsstand Date December 21, 1967
Source: Direct Currents, Metal Men #30, Page 32

Copyright Date December 21, 1967
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1967


Frequency: Monthly, with the exception of March, June and December
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mort Weisinger

Title: "No Witnesses in Outer Space"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Lois Lane (of Earth-1)

Writer: Leo Dorfman
Artist: Kurt Schaffenberger

Feature Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #80; next appearance in Action Comics #359)

Supporting Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #80; next appearance in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #108)
• Perry White (last appearance in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #80; next appearance in Action Comics #361)

Villain(s)

• Strangler and several convicts (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Commander Rand Kirby (last appearance in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #80; no further appearances)
• Dr. Culver (last appearance in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #80; no further appearances)
• Mr. and Mrs. Kirby (Rand's parents; no further appearances)
• Several space program officials (General Stone named; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Jimmy Olsen (in flashback)
• Lana Lang (in flashback)

Comments:
Part II:"Lois Lane's Extreme Space Peril"

This story is continued in part from Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #80.

Synopsis:
Lois has moved to Coral City and started a new life. Superman misses her and decides to go back in time to repair their relationship. He plans to arrive at the birthday party he missed, but circumstances cause him to be delayed again. After concluding once again that the past can't be changed, Superman returns to the present.

Lois, in her new job as a nurse, assists Dr. Culver with an experimental gas test performed on death row convicts. Some of the convicts break loose and take Lois as a hostage. Superman arrives to stop them, but Lois is exposed to the gas. The gas gives Lois limited E.S.P. and allows her to read Superman's mind. She finds out that he does love her, but his excuse that she would be a target if they married is a real fear he has.

Lois realizes that she can't marry Rand Kirby as she had planned, but also can't bear to hurt him. When her E.S.P. gives her a vision of the future in which Superman is trapped by Kryptonite in space, she sees Rand rescue him. However, her vision shows Rand dies in the process.

Lois stows away on Rand's rocket and saves Superman herself. When the Man of Steel is free of the Kryptonite, he appears to snap Lois's lifeline in space. Lois blacks out thinking that Superman has killed her. When she recovers on Earth, Superman explains that her lifeline was tangled and he broke it to save her life. Lois then breaks off her romance with Rand and returns to Metropolis with Superman.