Action Comics #23, by Siegel and Shuster, featured the first appearance of Lex Luthor, or to be more accurate, Alexei Luthor, an evil scientist working with a general on a powerful dirigible warship.

Fans have seen several takes on Lex Luthor truly challenge Superman, from Gene Hackman's live-action version to numerous Elseworlds comic variants.

With James Gunn’s Superman flying into theaters in just a few months, the spotlight has been shining just a little bit brighter on some of the other characters in the Man of Steel’s world lately — ...

Nobody can lose their shit and start yelling quite like Gene Hackman. The actor, who was discovered dead in his home at the age of 95 this week ( under bizarre-sounding circumstances ), appeared in ...

Few superhero movies in the last 10 years have been as hated by fans as Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Designed to help ...

If you didn’t know he was pure evil and a total egomaniac ... him bringing the flying villains down to earth, too. Without Lex Luthor, even conquerors from another planet won’t really know ...

An actor who imbued charm or intensity to any role he played, Gene Hackman swallowed the scenery. Here are some of the ...

Hackman delivers the majority of his lines in a calm tone, which only helps to underline Mandible's threats. A character ...

Ka-Hor is an Egyptian pharaoh in Invincible. Clancy Brown voices the character.

The Blue Blur meets The Scarlet Speedster, The Ultimate Life Form meets The Caped Crusader, The Strongest Thing Alive meets The Man of Steel! As you may have guessed, this week marks the first of ...

Hackman’s best roles were often of conflicted authority figures or surprisingly clever white-collar villains, such as the iconic evil villain Lex Luthor in the “Superman” film series in the 1970s and ...