Comic Title: Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #112
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: August 1971
On Sale Date: June 24, 1971 Newsstand Date June 24, 1971
Source: House Ad, Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #111, Page 29

Copyright Date June 24, 1971
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1971

Frequency: Monthly, (semi-monthly Sept.)
Cover Price: $0.25
Page Count: 48
Editor: E. Nelson Bridwell

Title: "A Tree Grows in Metropolis"
Pages: 14

Feature(s):
Lois Lane (of Earth-1)

Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Werner Roth
Inker: Vince Colletta

Feature Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #111; next appearance in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #114)

Supporting Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Justice League of America #94; next appearance in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #114)

Villain(s)

• Rzalin (an alien tree creature; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Superman investigates a dead world formerly inhabited by a race known as the Tzols. The plant life on the planet has been killed by a blight, but he discovers one tree that is still alive. He brings it back to Earth and replants it in a park in Metropolis.

Superman brings Lois to see the tree, then he immediately falls under its spell. The tree is a sentient female. The tree reveals to Lois that it intends to mate with Superman and infect the Earth with spores that will consume human life. Lois tries to kill the tree, but her efforts are repeatedly thwarted. Eventually Lois discovers that she was seeing the mental fantasy of the tree which was feeding off her brain waves. The tree is now dying because human minds could not sustain it.