The latest issue of Forever evil got me to wondering about this. Superwoman is basically Lois so a meeting between the two of them should really have been interesting.
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I think they did meet once a few years ago when Kurt Busiek was writing JLA. I'd be pretty surprised if they met Pre-Crisis, unless it was after Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane and Superman Family were canceled.
Earth Three Lois met Captain Comet when he fought the Crime Syndicate in Secret Society of Super-Villains #14. Back then, therefore, Superwoman was not Earth Three's Lois. Wikipedia tells me post-Crisis/post-Zero Hour/pre-New 52Lois met Superwoman in Superman/Batman Annual #1.
Pre-Crisis, Earth-3's Superwoman was a renegade Amazon with a magic lasso that could turn into monsters, while Lois Lane of Earth-3 was pretty much the same as the one on Earth-1, except that she talked Alexander Luthor into becoming Earth-3's first super-hero, and then she married him. Post-Crisis, the Crime Syndicate concept got shifted to a duplicate of Earth (Earth Two) in the same anti-matter universe as Qward, and it was at that point that Superwoman became Ultraman's unfaithful wife, Lois Lane, with the standard slate of Kryptonian powers. Post-Infinite Crisis, a new Earth-3 was created, with another version of the Crime Syndicate characters (possibly called the Crime Society), plus additional, but not always memorable, members, and a long-overdue opposing force, the Justice Underground, which consisted of heroic versions of various DC villains, like the Jokester & Three-Face. As near as I can tell, from that point on, until the New 52 (have they appeared since then? I stopped reading most of those titles early on.), the Earth-Two and Earth-3 versions of the characters were used interchangeably, so I have no idea if both groups existed at the same time, or if the Earth-Two version was wiped out in the Infinite Crisis, only to be recreated on Earth-3. It did seem like the Lois Lane version of Superwoman completely replaced the Amazon version of same. It's kind of a shame, since a full-out dominatrix version of Wonder Woman would have been fun, complete with her lasso of nightmares...
The concept of an Earth where people with powers like the JL turn bad and are opposed by people with powers like say the Flash or Batman's Rogue's Gallery is one I wish they'd explore in a regular series instead of giving us just glimpses now and then. I really think that a non-powered good Lois coming face to face with an evil superpowered Lois could be a really great moment.
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I think they did meet once a few years ago when Kurt Busiek was writing JLA. I'd be pretty surprised if they met Pre-Crisis, unless it was after Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane and Superman Family were canceled.
Earth Three Lois met Captain Comet when he fought the Crime Syndicate in Secret Society of Super-Villains #14. Back then, therefore, Superwoman was not Earth Three's Lois. Wikipedia tells me post-Crisis/post-Zero Hour/pre-New 52 Lois met Superwoman in Superman/Batman Annual #1.
It'll be interesting to see if the current Lois ever meets her counterpart. What do you say to a monstrous version of yourself?
Pre-Crisis, Earth-3's Superwoman was a renegade Amazon with a magic lasso that could turn into monsters, while Lois Lane of Earth-3 was pretty much the same as the one on Earth-1, except that she talked Alexander Luthor into becoming Earth-3's first super-hero, and then she married him. Post-Crisis, the Crime Syndicate concept got shifted to a duplicate of Earth (Earth Two) in the same anti-matter universe as Qward, and it was at that point that Superwoman became Ultraman's unfaithful wife, Lois Lane, with the standard slate of Kryptonian powers. Post-Infinite Crisis, a new Earth-3 was created, with another version of the Crime Syndicate characters (possibly called the Crime Society), plus additional, but not always memorable, members, and a long-overdue opposing force, the Justice Underground, which consisted of heroic versions of various DC villains, like the Jokester & Three-Face. As near as I can tell, from that point on, until the New 52 (have they appeared since then? I stopped reading most of those titles early on.), the Earth-Two and Earth-3 versions of the characters were used interchangeably, so I have no idea if both groups existed at the same time, or if the Earth-Two version was wiped out in the Infinite Crisis, only to be recreated on Earth-3. It did seem like the Lois Lane version of Superwoman completely replaced the Amazon version of same. It's kind of a shame, since a full-out dominatrix version of Wonder Woman would have been fun, complete with her lasso of nightmares...
The concept of an Earth where people with powers like the JL turn bad and are opposed by people with powers like say the Flash or Batman's Rogue's Gallery is one I wish they'd explore in a regular series instead of giving us just glimpses now and then. I really think that a non-powered good Lois coming face to face with an evil superpowered Lois could be a really great moment.