Lois Lane, Urban Cowgirl

Are you a fan of comic book stories that leap onto a cultural fad after that fad is already over? Do you enjoy absurd death traps? Than stick around for a special story that we can only call:

Our plot? Two years after Coal Miner's Daughter and Urban Cowboy swept up the nation in Country Fever, Tamsyn O'Flynn and Bob Oksner decide to take a hard look at the seamy underbelly of the Metropolis country & western scene. Brace yourselves.

Lois' old college classmate, aspiring songwriter Cassie Jo, has come to town for a visit. And Lois has proved what a friend she was by scoring tickets to a show by "the reigning queen of country," Dulcina Rae, at Rodeo Rick's. See, Metropolis WAS a thriving hotbed of country music!!

Here, by the way, is what a big-shot big city reporter wear to a C & W concert:


So, anyway, at the show, they discover that Dulcina Rae has apparently stolen some of Cassie Jo's songs!! The only solution, obviously--

Lois going undercover as Cassie Jo to investigate, of course!

Being snoopy eventually reveals that Dulcina's boyfriend/songwriter Earl Mason has had writer's block, and has been swiping the songs Cassie Jo submitted in order to retain Dulcina's love. And now, Earl has to shut Lois/Cassie Jo up:

But Lois apparently can't handle those cowboy boots, as...


A simple trip knocks her unconscious? Oh, Lois...

Then, of course, Mason decides on a ridiculous death trap (embiggen to see the full silliness):

Of course, the death trap is so stupid, it actually helps Lois defeat her foe:



So thank you, DC, for jumping on a cultural trend that was over two years earlier!!

Bonus panel: Even a mousy and shy country girl will dis poor Clark Kent:

Lois was born a xenophobic general's daughter in Superman Family #217 (1982).