Comic Title: World's Finest Comics #36
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Sep/Oct 1948
Approx. On Sale Date: July 28, 1948 Copyright Date July 26, 1948
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1948
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.15
Page Count: 72
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "Lois Lane, Sleeping Beauty?"
Pages: 12

Feature(s):
Superman (of Earth-2)

Writer: William Woolfolk
Penciller: Wayne Boring
Inker: Stan Kaye

Reprinted In:
Superman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 6 HC (2019)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics #124; next appearance in Action Comics #125)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Action Comics #124; next appearance in Action Comics #125)
• Perry White (last appearance in Action Comics #124; next appearance in Action Comics #125)
• Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in Superman #49; next appearance in Superman #79)

Other Character(s)

• Mr. Blanding (aka Dr. Vilodnya; a playwright; no further appearances)
• A newspaper critic (no further appearances)
• A museum curator (no further appearances)
• An egyptian man (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Blanding, a playwright, tries to kill himself in the office of the Daily Planet after an unfavorable review. Superman stops him, but Lois volunteers to help the man. The following day, Lois visits the city museum and falls victim to a sleeping curse which puts her in a coma.

Lois is taken to Dr. Vilodnya's sanitarium for care. However the doctor is the playwright, and Lois has been faking her trance. Lois intends to create publicity with her condition and build up Blanding's play. The phony doctor sends Superman on an errand to keep him from discovers Lois's true condition.

When Superman completes the impossible task of obtaining rare items needed to cure Lois, he is not permitted into the hospital. He enters as Clark, then exposes her hoax. Lois is embarrassed and leaves town. Superman then helps Blanding with his play and retrieves Lois to watch.