1987 Lois Lane AMC Cartoon Celebrities Silver Round

MintAmerican Medallion Corporation AMC (Houston TX)

IssuerRobert E. Westfall Inc

DistributorRobert E. Westfall Inc

CollectionAMC Cartoon Celebrities Series

Depicts Lois Lane seated at her newsroom desk, phone receiver held to her ear as she takes notes with a pencil in her free hand. A nameplate reading "Lois Lane REPORTER" appears at the lower right of the design. The copyright notice "TM & © DC COMICS INC 1982" is struck along the upper left border.

Features the standard American Medallion Corporation Cartoon Celebrities reverse, with the interlocking-rings AMC device at center. Surrounding inscriptions read: "CARTOON CELEBRITIES," "ONE TROY OZ. .999 FINE SILVER," and "MADE IN USA BY AMC." This reverse die is shared across the AMC Cartoon Celebrities Series, appearing on other issues such as the 1987 Wonder Woman by DC Comics round.

1987 Lois Lane AMC Cartoon Celebrities Silver Round Overview

The 1987 Lois Lane AMC Cartoon Celebrities Silver Round is a privately issued one-ounce silver bullion round produced by American Medallion Corporation (AMC) of Houston, Texas, under official license from DC Comics. It was issued and distributed by Robert E. Westfall Inc. as part of AMC’s Cartoon Celebrities Series, a line of officially licensed collectible medals produced during the late 1980s featuring comic book, comic strip, and cartoon characters drawn from multiple intellectual property owners.

Lois Lane, the veteran investigative reporter for the Daily Planet and longtime supporting character in the Superman mythos, appears here in her civilian reporter identity — on the phone at her newsroom desk rather than in costume or in a Superman-adjacent scene. The design choice reflects Lois Lane’s own standing as a DC Comics character in her own right, distinct from her usual role as a love interest in Superman stories, and is consistent with AMC’s broader approach in the series of licensing individual character likenesses across DC’s roster rather than limiting itself to headline heroes.

Struck in .999 fine silver, the round combines investment-grade bullion with officially licensed comic book artwork, a pairing that characterized much of AMC’s licensed output during this period and mirrors the approach taken on other Cartoon Celebrities issues such as Wonder Woman, Brenda Starr, and Dick Tracy.

1987 Lois Lane AMC Cartoon Celebrities Silver Round Attribution

Mint: American Medallion Corporation (AMC) Issuer: Robert E. Westfall Inc. Designer/Engraver: Not documented

The obverse bears the copyright notice “TM & © DC Comics Inc. 1982,” which reflects DC Comics’ copyright date for the Lois Lane Reporter artwork and logo used in the design — not the round’s date of manufacture. This distinction matters here because, unlike the 1987 Wonder Woman round, where the struck copyright year happens to match the production year, the Lois Lane obverse carries a copyright date that predates AMC’s documented production era of 1986–1989 entirely. Read as a strike date, “1982” would place the round before American Medallion Corporation existed under either its Texas International Mint or AMC name; read correctly as an artwork copyright date, it simply indicates AMC licensed an existing piece of DC Comics character art for use on a mid/late-1980s issue, the same practice publishers commonly followed when reusing previously copyrighted illustrations on new licensed merchandise.

The example examined for this entry retains its original AMC retail packaging, and the box is explicitly marked “TM & © DC Comics 1987” — consistent with the round’s production era and with the shared Cartoon Celebrities reverse die used across the series. On the strength of the original packaging, the standard series reverse, and AMC’s documented 1986–1989 production window, this round is attributed to 1987, pending discovery of contemporary sales literature establishing a more precise release date.

1987 Lois Lane AMC Cartoon Celebrities Silver Round Notes

• Officially licensed by DC Comics.
• Part of AMC’s Cartoon Celebrities silver bullion series.
• Obverse copyright notice reads “TM & © DC Comics Inc. 1982,” reflecting the Lois Lane artwork’s copyright date rather than the round’s manufacture date.
• Original AMC retail packaging accompanying this example is dated 1987, consistent with the series’ documented production era.
• The reverse design is shared with other rounds in the Cartoon Celebrities series.
• This is the first documented Cartoon Celebrities example on the site where the struck obverse copyright year predates American Medallion Corporation’s production window, rather than matching it as seen on the Wonder Woman issue.

1987 Lois Lane AMC Cartoon Celebrities Silver Round References

• Original AMC Cartoon Celebrities retail packaging and outer box, marked “TM & © DC Comics 1987.”
• DC Comics copyright notice, 1982 (Lois Lane Reporter artwork).
• 1987 Wonder Woman by DC Comics — Texas Stacker entry, comparison example.
• Documented example examined (this entry).
• Texas Stacker Archives.

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