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!

  

Oswald Got Around

If you believe papers like the Weekly World News.

Now you know the truth, kids!

See you on Thursday for the commencement of APRIL FOOLISHNESS 2025!