Yes, that subtitle says it all.

Let’s face it, people have wanted to see Superman and Lois Lane get married for decades. It wound up being one of the longest courtships in the 20th century, exceeded only by Popeye and Olive Oyl. In many circumstances the marriage served as a way to trap one of Superman’s villains or as a dream, as in the Adventures of Superman episode “The Wedding of Superman”.

Not to mention the final season episode “Superman’s Wife”, in which he proposes to Sgt. Helen O’Hara during a crime probe, and to everyone’s surprise she accepts.

But it wasn’t until the 1990’s that the thought of the Last Son of Krypton settling down with Lois Lane in wedded bliss, and it actually happened in the comics and on television in 1996. DC Comics produced a lavish one-shot entitled Superman: The Wedding Album that brought together many of DC Comics’ creative talents. And on Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, guest star Delta Burke attempted to foil the title character’s heavenly nuptials in the episode “Swear to God, This Time We’re Not Kidding.”

It wouldn’t be the last time. In the series finale of Smallville, part of the subplot of the two-hour final episode dealt with Lois and Clark tying the knot. And the current CW series Superman and Lois focuses on the two leads as a married couple raising two super-powered sons.

But believe it or not, Mario Puzo also came up with the idea of Superman and Lois getting married in his second draft script from October 1975. Let’s jump back in and see where this takes us.

Picking up on page 137 of the script, we find the couple at the Fortress of Solitude, having dinner together complete with champagne and talking about his plans to give up his powers and become a mortal man.

Everything with the script—consulting Jor-El and Lara, sacrificing his powers, Lois testing him—is consistent with the first draft script, with no additions to these moments.

It is not until page 146 that the discussion of marriage comes into play. Superman informs Lois that they should get married and prepare a wedding feast. He says, “On Krypton the principals exchange vows and pledges… and I have lots of cookbooks.” They soon have a huge feast set up with various dishes of French, Chinese, Italian, and Greek foods, even with Lois insisting that they have a couple of greasy hamburgers instead.

Before they can dive into their wedding feast, Lois suggests that they should get married. They go outside and overlook the Arctic lands, and it is in the balcony that they recite vows to each other pledging their love for each other. It’s a most unusual wedding ceremony because there’s no officiating priest present. Lois comments at one point, “This sounds like a Muslim ceremony,” then at another point, “It sounds more like a joint declaration of war.” It’s a most unusual wedding to be sure.

Afterwards they indulge in their huge wedding feast. Superman is eating everything in sight like a chow hound and marveling at the fact that he’s never experienced all of these foods before. Lois just sits back, unable to eat a bite, feeling a little angry towards his newfound appetite.

The script then continues as before, with Lois bringing Superman to bed, with the two of them making love together. The next day, she proceeds to get him drunk. All of these beats are repeated, with no changes whatsoever.

So what are your thoughts about Superman and Lois getting married at this point in the script? Should they have gotten a priest to officiate the marriage? Should the plot point have even been included to begin with?

Next time, the plot of Superman II continues…