Welcome to April Foolishness 2025!

The Amazing Heroes Hoax Contest! – Part 1

From the April 1, 1985 Amazing Heroes, we have a challenge from Mark Waid. He and AH editor Kim Thompson DARE you to find the two hoaxes in this article!

And I DOUBLE-DARE YOU!

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Well, my friends, have you guessed correctly? Or remembered your DC lore accurately?

“The Girl of Straw” appeared in Action Comics #356, cover-dated November 1967. And Waid’s synopsis is basically correct.

“The Night of March 31st” is another non-hoax. It was the third story in Superman #145, cover-dated May 1961.

“Lois Lane’s Singing Sweetheart” is HOAX NUMBER ONE. This tale did NOT appear in a comic, and this storyline did not appear.

BUT ... Lois Lane #9 DID contain “Superman's Mystery Song,” in which Boone and Lois co-write a song about Supes.

See you on Monday!  And ... come back on Monday, April 21st, for part two of this explication!