In both the movie franchises (Gene Hackman and Kevin Spacey) Lex Luthor is FAR older than Superman. However on Smallville, they are relatively the same age. Which is correct based on the comic?
2006-06-17 16:16:48 · 8 answers · asked by contrafilms 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
No...in the original comics, Lex Luthor was a school mate of Clark Kent. Lex blamed Superboy for his baldness when Lex's experiment went wrong and Superboy tried to help him by blowing out the fire in the lab.
Lex Luthor blames Superboy for his hair-loss. Art by Al Pastino.In Adventure Comics #271 in 1960 (written by Jerry Siegel), the Silver Age origin of Luthor is first revealed, along with Luthor finally gaining a first name, "Lex." It was revealed that when Luthor was a teenager, his family moved to Smallville, with Lex becoming a large fan of Superboy. In gratitude and to encourage Lex's scientific pursuits, Superboy built for Lex a fully stocked laboratory. There, Lex began an experiment in creating an artificial new form of life, along with a cure for kryptonite poisoning. However, when a fire caught in his lab, Superboy mistakenly used his super-breath to extinguish the flames. This rescue attempt spilled chemicals that caused Luthor to go prematurely bald and destroyed both his kryptonite cure and his artificial life form. Luthor attributed Superboy's actions to jealousy and vowed revenge. First, he tried to show Superboy up with grandiose technological projects to improve the life of Smallville's residents, which time and again went dangerously out of control and required Superboy's intervention. Unwilling to accept responsibility for these accidents, Lex rationalized that Superboy was out to humiliate him and vowed to spend the rest of his life proving to the world he was Superboy's (and later Superman's) superior by eliminating the hero.
This origin first made Luthor's fight with Superman a personal one, giving him a dimension beyond his previous mad scientist archetype and suggesting that if events had unfolded differently, Luthor might have become a more noble person; these elements were played up in various stories in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in Elliot S. Maggin's text novel Last Son of Krypton.
2006-06-17 16:24:02 · answer #1 · answered by Stray Kittycat 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2017-01-22 12:09:32 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes,for the most part he was a bit older.However in a Superboy comic I used to have in the 60`s,they showed a lab experiment going horribly wrong in Luthor`s lab,S blew out the flames saving L`s life but knocked over two chemicals the caused L`s baldness
and fueled his hatred of S.Notice all the important people,other then the Kents have the L.L.initials?
2006-06-17 16:45:59 · answer #3 · answered by Rich B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No if you go back to the 60's and 70's and find some old superboy comics, lex was in some of them.
He held a grudge against superboy for messing up one of his lab experiments and causing him to lose his hair
2006-06-17 16:23:30 · answer #4 · answered by mick987g 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lex Luthor is older than superman.
on Smallville Lex Luthor is also older than clark,even though he looks about the same age,Lex is betrayed to be older than clark.
by the way "Smallville".............great show!
2006-06-17 16:22:57 · answer #5 · answered by SPRING 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the golden age i think they were close in age
silver age they were the same age
the modern age superman lex was a middle aged billionaire already but was de aged into a younger body by magic
so you have a choice of which time frame you use so all are correct depends on which lex they use
2006-06-18 14:29:22 · answer #6 · answered by bigbobsmailbag 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No in a flashback in Adventure comics it was shown they were friends in Smallville and in trying to find Superboy for Kyrptonite he lost his hair and swore revenge. No really.
2006-06-18 01:35:39 · answer #7 · answered by corpusdawg2002 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO. THEY WERE ACTUALLY CLASSMATES.
2006-06-17 16:21:47 · answer #8 · answered by Raj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋