via ComicsAlliance.com:Joanne Siegel, the original model for Lois Lane and the wife of Superman co-creator and artist Jerry Siegel, passed away yesterday at the age of 93. Joanne met Siegel and his co-creator Joe Shuster when she was a teenager in the 1930s, and responded to a newspaper ad for a model.
When Siegel saw her, he believed he had found the face of of a certain character he was working on for a comic book. "I thought she was the perfect ideal for Lois Lane," said Jerry Siegel in a 1981 documentary called Superman: The Comic Strip Hero. "She just represented my image of her."
Joanne and Jerry would later marry in 1948, and after Jerry's passing in 1996, Joanne took up the legal battle with Warner Bros to take back the copyright to the Superman character, which Siegel and Shuster originally sold for a mere $130. Joanne called regaining the copyright "a dream of Jerry's," and the Siegel family would later regain a share of the copyright in 2008.
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Sad to see her passing. Hopefully she's departed for more heavenly climes.
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