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.

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 ...

Harley Quinn, the popular adult animated series, is well into Season 5, where Harley and Ivy fight against Lex Luthor's evil sister, Lena, who wants to gain control of the Metropolis.

Evil transpires all in the name of a few bucks ... and just plain entertainment course through every inch of Hackman’s Lex Luthor work all because these movies gave him the wiggle room to ...

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

Superman’s first supervillain wasn’t someone like Lex Luthor or Brainiac; no, it was the evil superscientist known as the Ultra-Humanite. The Ultra-Humanite was the prototypical mad scientist ...

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

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

The late, great Gene Hackman had plenty of iconic roles throughout his acting career, including Lex Luthor in Richard ... really makes Mandible a chillingly evil character is Hackman's performance.

Hackman’s best roles were often of conflicted authority figures or surprisingly clever white-collar villains, such as the iconic, evil Lex Luthor in the “Superman” film series in the 1970s and ’80s.