- She was hired as a model by Joe Shuster, the comic-book artist who, along with writer Jerry Siegel, was developing the character of Superman. The facial features and hairstyle of Lois Lane were based on her.
- After WWII, she met Jerry Siegel again at a fund-raiser for cartoonists. They married in 1948.
- Her Hungarian parents named her Jolan, pronounced YO-lan. Teachers and classmates who couldn't (or wouldn't) pronounce it correctly called her Joanne instead. She eventually adopted that name.
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