{"id":859,"date":"2019-04-09T08:44:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T15:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=859"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:48:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:48:28","slug":"106-luthor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/106-luthor\/","title":{"rendered":"106 – Luthor!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The first appearance of Luthor from Action Comics #23 (February 1940).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

February 1940 also brought another major character to the DC Universe with the introduction of Luthor<\/a>, probably Superman<\/a>‘s greatest villain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First appearing in Action Comics #23 (February 1940), Luthor was a mad scientist bent on world domination that used hypnotism to keep his lackeys in check. Later on in the month he also appeared in the Spring issue of Superman (#4) in two more stories. In each story, he tries to use his superior intellect to outwit Superman, of course failing every time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Luthor talks to Superman over his videophone, from Superman #4, Feb 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

All of these appearances show him as a red-headed scowling man of medium build in his late thirties or forties who employs bald, stockier henchmen, all of which look a lot like the Luthor of the 1950s and 1960s (as well as the original form of the Ultra-Humanite<\/a>). It turns out that an artist for the Superman newspaper strip would accidentally confuse Luthor with one of his henchman and ever since, Luthor has been depicted as a bald man. When DC introduced the concept of a multiverse, the red-headed criminal scientist was considered the Luthor of Earth-2… because that would make things much clearer apparently. :-\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trouble with that whole theory is that the Earth-2 Superman (Kal-L) worked for the Daily Star, and Action Comics #23 is the first time that Lois and Clark are working for the Daily Planet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first mention of the Daily Planet in Action Comics #23, February 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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