Destiny calls... I must again become... The Black Racer... The one who is... Death! 
Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #115 is an issue of the series Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1971.
Synopsis for "My Death ... By Lois Lane"
Lois is visiting the home of an injured Willie Walker. Once she leaves, Willie transforms into the mysterious Black Racer. Lois heads to her apartment where she receives a gift from a secret admirer. Lois opens the package to find it contains a typewriter. The attached note explains that the typewriter is guaranteed to type only scoops. Lois is then mysteriously compelled to start typing. She types an obituary that predicts that Dr Reginald Taylor will jump off Metropolis Bridge at 11:00pm. Lois looks at her watch and sees that the time is 10:40. She rushes out the door and heads to the bridge. She arrives just in time to see Dr Taylor fall from the bridge into the water.
After summoning the police, Lois heads to her apartment once again. She examines the typewriter as her fingers are compelled to start typing. When finished she sees that she has typed another obituary. This time it states that Maria Kalder, an opera diva was found dead of asphyxiation at 1AM. Lois calls the opera star who answers and seems to be fine. Lois then realizes that her watch is 5 minutes too fast. She heads to the opera stars apartment to find her dead as a result of escaping gas from the fireplace. The mysterious Black Racer is seen flying away in the distance.
Lois returns to her apartment a final time. She is drawn to the typewriter once again and begins typing. To her horror, she finds that she has typed her own obituary. It reads that she will die of an explosion in her own apartment at dawn. Lois decides to get away and she attends an all night theater. As she watches the movie, a fire breaks out. Lois is trampled by panicking patrons that rush towards the exit. She passes out and awakes to find herself in her own apartment. She finds that she was rescued by her neighbors that happened to be in the theater. They leave and Lois realizes that she is in her apartment just as her obituary foretold. At that point, Superman flies in to check on Lois. She is unable to talk due to her medication but Superman is able to read her lips as she recants the details of all that has happened.
Superman is then drawn to the diabolical typewriter and types out his own obituary. It reads that he will be killed in an explosion at the Jewel Theater but before Superman finishes typing the last line he realizes that the letter J has not been used in any of the past obituaries. Superman carries off the typewriter and hurls it into the sky as he uses his heat vision to cause it to explode. It is revealed in the story that the typewriter was created by scientists of Apokolips in an Intergang effort to assassinate Superman.
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Synopsis for "The Computer Crooks"
Thorn witnesses members of the 100 distributing drugs at a drive in. She subdues the gang members as detective Danny Stone shows up at the scene. The next day finds Vince Adams and Rose watching Lois Lane on tv as Lois extends an invitation to Thorn for an interview. Adams asks Rose for a date but Rose indicates she already has a date with Danny Stone. Adams takes a rain check and heads to the funeral home basement where he meets a scientist that has hijacked an intergang computer called K.A.R.L. 1. The scientist demonstrates the computer in front of members of the 100. They ask it for a plan to trap Thorn. After the computer produces the answer, the scientist who assembled KARL1 is executed by Vince Adams to keep him quiet. After the body is dumped in the river we find out that the computer plan for trapping Thorn requires that the 100 hire the villainous Poison Ivy.
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- The 100
- Vince Adams
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- Poison Ivy
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Synopsis for "The Shakespeare Clue!"
reprinted from Sensation Comics Vol 1 84
Social debutante Valerie Vaughn attempts to secure a job as a reporter at a local paper. The City Press employee demands that she produce a scoop before getting hired. Vaughn visits the office of Gary Grath private investigator. As Vaughn walks in she finds Grath being threatened by thugs that want him to lay off the Greer case. Vaughn and Grath succeed in running off the thugs. Grath leaves to follow the crooks and Vaughn stays behind. As she waits in the office she receives a call from Rita Greer, niece of the murdered George Greer. Rita Greer states that she has received a threatening letter from Albert Leeds, a former secretary who stole $50,000 from the family bank. Leeds also confesses to Greers murder. The letter makes reference to a possible clue located in a Shakespeare bust. Vaughn travels to the Greer mansion where she learns that Greer kept Leeds employed even after the theft to repay the stolen money but Leeds betrayed her uncles trust by murdering him and stealing an additional $50,000 from the family safe. As they discuss the details further they are interrupted by a gunman who claims he has been sent by Leeds to retrieve a Shakespeare bust. Vaughn surprises the gunman and hits him over the head with the bust. It shatters in pieces and reveals a hidden note. The note turns out to be a page from Greers appointment book showing that he had an appointment with a gambler named Wolf Lupas on the night he was murdered.
Vaughn leaves the Greer mansion and heads to a nightclub owned by Lupas. Upon arriving she finds that Gary Grath has been taken prisoner and is being held in the nightclubs basement. The basement also contains a second prisoner that turns out to be Albert Leeds the accused killer of George Greer. Both men are being held there by Wolf Lupas who confesses to killing Greer and was trying to make Leeds take blame for the murder. Vaughn is taken prisoner along with the other two men but she then uses a tear gas bomb to subdue the villains. Vaughn then takes her typed up scoop and uses it to claim a position at City Press.
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