Obituary: Joanne Siegel, model for Superman character Lois Lane, dies at 93 - latimes.com

Joanne Siegel, who played a role in the creation of the Superman saga in the 1930s as Joe Shuster's teenage artist's model for Lois Lane and later married the Man of Steel's co-creator, writer Jerry Siegel, has died. She was 93.

Siegel, a longtime resident of Marina del Rey who successfully fought a long legal battle to regain her late husband's copyrights to Superman and related characters, died Saturday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, said her daughter, Laura Siegel Larson. The cause of death has not yet been determined.Obituary: Joanne Siegel, model for Superman character Lois Lane, dies at 93 - latimes.com: "Joanne Siegel, who played a role in the creation of the Superman saga in the 1930s as Joe Shuster's teenage artist's model for Lois Lane and later married the Man of Steel's co-creator, writer Jerry Siegel, has died. She was 93.

Siegel, a longtime resident of Marina del Rey who successfully fought a long legal battle to regain her late husband's copyrights to Superman and related characters, died Saturday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, said her daughter, Laura Siegel Larson. The cause of death has not yet been determined."
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Now that takes me back to my youth, when I used to listen to Superman at 4:45 pm on Springbok Radio on washing day, because we didn't have mains electricity and that was the day my mother ran the generator to run the washing machine, and Clock Kent (that's what his name sounded like) used to desert Lois to change in a phone booth or somewhere.