Lois was investigating the power blackout on her own, and learned that the first site of the power grid failure was at the Vanderworth residence location across the river - Luthor""s mansion! Immersed in her work, she had forgotten to pick up her boy Jason at school, around 3:15 pm.He was apparently a ""kept man"" in servitude to the miserly, nagging, aging beauty queen - she displayed several nasty personal characteristics: she was a feisty, shrewish, broken-down (invalid and bed-ridden) moll - possibly a retired whore? She complained that she was "nobody""s hunchback," and reminded him of his 24/7 duty to her:You work for me, Lou! The cigarettes you put in your mouth, I pay for..." - the Joker was incensed: "I have given a name to my pain and it is Batman." Meanwhile, Knox discovered in newspaper archives that young Wayne as a child saw his parents murdered ("Thomas Wayne Murdered.As he turned, a pitchfork was hrust into his stomach(# 4 death).Loco reached around and felt the sharp pronged teeth of the pitchfork extending out of his back, and then grabbed the handle in front before slowly falling to his knees and collapsing.