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JOURNAL OF MODERN MYTHOLOGY AND POP CULTURE INTRODUCTION PAGE 63
Left: Lois in one of DC Comics' Girlfrenzy one-shot specials appearing throughout 1998. Right: Kate Bosworth as Lois in Superman Returns, 2006, copyright Warner Brothers Pictures.
By the 1970s, as American society begins changing its attitudes toward women, Lois also changes. She appears in stories not involving Superman and fights and defeats criminals in the course of her investigations, showing skills in a Kryptonian martial art, Klurkor. Lois Lane joins the pantheon of important Modern Mythological archetypes that are attracting social awareness beyond entertainment; an Almost-Super-Human, as with Emma Peel or Modesty Blaise, later, and also a romantic in the tradition of Elizabeth Bennet or Catherine Earnshaw, before. There is a continuity between the literature of the past and the entertainment of now. Between Homer's The Osyssey and the motion picture O Brother, Where Art Thou?, to use an obvious example, many motifs remain, combining and transforming but eventually appearing in a basic original form at one time or another.
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