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Various enemies of Superman, as they appear on the cover of Superman Villains: Secret Files and Origins#1 (June 1998, art by Dan Jurgens). This is a list of supervillains appearing in DC Comics who are or have been enemies of the superhero Superman.
Superman's nemesis; when the Man of Steel joined the League, Luthor saw it as a direct challenge to him and formed two Injustice Gangs. Pre-Crisis, he was a mad scientist; Post-Crisis, a corrupt billionaire. The Funhouse Aliens: Justice League of America #7: Aliens that lost a war in a distant solar system 100,000 years ago.
Superman's arrival challenges Luthor's image and brings renewed interest to the Planet when he does exclusive interviews with their staff. Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen, and Lois Lane work together to oppose Luthor's power and Superman tells the public they should strive to achieve great things themselves and not wait for others to be their saviors.
Lex Luthor: Superman's adult nemesis, in Golden Age stories (1938–59), was a rotund middle-aged (sometimes bordering on elderly) criminal scientist, with no given first name, who first met and confronted Superman as an adult in Metropolis. In Silver Age canon introduced in 1958–59, Luthor was reinvented as Lex Luthor, a brilliant teenage ...
He has since endured as one of Superman's greatest enemies. The character's name is a portmanteau of the words brain and maniac. [3] In his comic book appearances, Brainiac is commonly depicted as a superintelligent android or cyborg from the planet Colu who is obsessed with collecting all knowledge in the known universe. He travels the galaxy ...
The Legion of Super-Villains is a team of supervillains who appear in comic books published by DC Comics, primarily as enemies of the Legion of Super-Heroes. [1] They first appeared in Superman #147 (Aug 1961).
Cover to Action Comics #340, art by Curt Swan. In the Pre-Crisis, Raymond Maxwell Jensen was a lowlife who got a job as a plant worker for a research center. [6] Wrongly believing that the company payrolls were hidden in storage containers, Jensen opened one and was bombarded with energies from biohazard materials (which was actually waste collected by Superman when he traveled into outer ...
In 2006, the Superman comics themselves adapted elements from the Superman movies, specifically the ice-like look of Krypton, and Jor-El banishing the criminals to the Phantom Zone. Ursa and Non made their first appearances in the comic book continuity. This was facilitated in the "Last Son" story arc, co-written by Richard Donner. [4]