Joanne Siegel: The First Lois Lane

Above, Joanne Siegel and her daughter Laura Siegel Larson (far right) look on as L.A. County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich reads a tribute to the "Adventures of Superman" television show on its 50th anniversary in 2001. Photo courtesy of Jim Nolt.

Not too many people knew that Joanne Siegel, the widow of Superman co-creator Jerome (Jerry) Siegel, was "the first Lois Lane." Until this week.

Joanne Siegel didn't play Lois Lane on radio, television or in the movies, but she was the model that Jerome Siegel's partner Joe Shuster used when creating Lois.

Over at The Adventures Continue website, Lou Koza posted a special tribute page that provides a pretty comprehensive biography of Joanne Siegel. (Included is a story that Mrs. Siegel told Koza at the 2001 "Superman Week" ceremony on how she first met television's first Superman, George Reeves.)

At the "Superman Week" ceremony, Joanne Siegel met the screen's first Lois Lane, Noel Neill, for the first time.

Above, DC Comics Vice-President Paul Levitz and Joanne Siegel at a luncheon following the "Superman Week" ceremony at Cafe Pinot. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

To read the tribute page to Joanne Siegel, go here.