When you’re as strong, fast, invulnerable and flat-out powerful as Superman, it’s hard to find a nemesis of sufficient menace to actually provide you with a workout. Enter Lex Luthor, the bad guy’s bad guy. He doesn’t (usually) have superpowers, but then he doesn’t need them, even against the Man of Steel. No prison can hold him, it seems, no setback is too great to overcome, and there’s pretty much no scheme too outlandish for his considerable brain power to cook up. Since Superman remains reluctant to just break Luthor’s neck, there’s always tomorrow for this perpetual rebounder. Talk about try, try and try again – Robert the Bruce’s Spider had nothing on Luthor.

FIRST APPEARED IN ACTION COMICS #23
CREATED BY JERRY SIEGEL AND JOE SHUSTER