(A. Bizarro #2) - LexCorp's lab found that Al Bizarro's cells, some of which were left behind in his containment unit, could be cultivated, and did not suffer from the same cellular degradation Teng's Bizarro. Lex sent his lackey Tiffany to give Beezer a visit, and after a beating he revealed that Al had contacted him. A Lexcorp copter snagged Al in a net and flew him back to Lex.

(A. Bizarro #3) - LexCorp scientists kept A. docile in a tank of super-oxygenated liquid, and confirmed that unlike Teng's Bizarro he wasn't undergoing cellular degradation, and was a viable lifeform. Lex considered making a Bizarro race, and considered his assistants Eliska and Tiffany for the position of mate, but they were horrified at the idea. So was A., who was upset enough to break out of his confinement. Tiffany chased him, and peeved that he rejected her because she was pretty she shot at him. A. found a Mother Box in LexCorp labs, and it created a boom tube that transported him to Apokolips. Lex was furious that the mother box he got from Intergang refused to come to life for his scientists, but a Bizarro got it humming.

(A. Bizarro #4) - Al became the rock star Al Pokolips, and Lex wanted him and his property seized as being owned by LexCorp. Law enforcement and LexCorp's attorneys agreed with Lex's stance, but Al's new friend, New God Seera, freed him, and they took a boom tube to Central America. They wound up in San Latte, where Lex operated the Lexigente coffee company. Lex had Presidente Kurosawa in his pocket, and reduced the populace to slavery. Clark Kent was also in San Latte, and when Bizarro and a band of guerilla's ousted Lexigente he helped. Lexigente was actually a front for LexCorp to build military armament to be sold to other Central American countries, but Lex had to cut his losses.

(JLA #34, 36-39) - To avenge his last humiliating defeat at the hands of the JLA, Lex Luthor formed the New Injustice Gang. They chose a time to strike when the JLA s resources were spread thin, and during a Belle Reve prison riot Prometheus had minor crook Red Dart steal Lantern s ring, and Prometheus tinkered with it before allowing Green Lantern to recover it. The Gang attacked the JLA Watchtower, getting the drop on the JLA because they entered via Prometheus  Still Zone. They attacked the heroes and set off massive explosions that damaged the Watchtower. The fight went against the JLA, and as the doomsday weapon Mageddon approached Earth it put the Injustice Gang in its thrall to keep the heroes from saving Earth, with Luthor completely possessed by one of Mageddon s remote senders. The JLA taunted Luthor, saying he wasn't living up to his reputation by giving into Mageddon, and Luthor freed himself from the remote sender through sheer force of will. The Gang was defeated, and Luthor swore Mageddon s influence left him amnesiac, and that he would never willingly associate with supervillains.

(Adventures of Superman #593) - Chemo, Shrapnel and Plasmus were released from Stryker's Island to be drafted into President Luthor's Suicide Squad, with Manchester Black leading the team, and they required a field test against a powerful superhuman. Black suggested Superman, and Luthor supported the choice. The Squad lured superman to Area 8, an abandoned military compound, and engaged him in combat. They were defeated by Superman, with Chemo being hurled into Earth's orbit. Luthor agreed with Black that they needed to recruit Mongul and free Doomsday to complete the Squad. Superman confronted Lex in one of his bunkers and Lex told him extreme measures were necessary during the Imperiex War.

(Superman II #171) - Brainiac sent Lena Luthor to President Luthor and told him his role in the Imperiex War could make history remember him as on of America's greatest leaders, although many would die.

(Action Comics #780) - President Luthor met with Darkseid, who arrived in Metropolis to fight against Imperiex. Superman and the JLA were present because they distrusted Darkseid, but Luthor assured them Darkseid was an ally. Luthor told the JLA they'd be instrumental in the battle against Darkseid, and sent Superman to Berlin, which was being invaded by General Zod.

(JLA: Our Worlds at War #1) - Luthor's cabinet informed the President that several Imperiex Probes landed on Earth to hollow out the planet. Luthor organized a number of superheroes, including the Titans and Outsiders, to combat the Probes.

(Adventures of Superman #594) - President Luthor ordered Superman to go to the JLA Watchtower because the Suicide Squad had freed Doomsday, but Luthor had lost all contact with the team. On the Watchtower Superman found a decimated Suicide Squad and teamed with Doomsday, whose mind had been manipulated by Manchester Black, to destroy a number of Imperiex probes in space. Imperiex Prime disintegrated Doomsday and hit Superman with an energy blast

(JSA: Our Worlds at War #1) - President Luthor gave the JSA a mission to disrupt Imperiex s link to his ship s power supply, hopefully turning the tide of the Imperiex War. Luthor was astonished when the JSA not only cut off Imperiex from his power, but they managed to blow up his ship as well.

(Action Comics #781, Superman II #173, Adventures of Superman #595) - Emil Hamilton discovered that Imperiex was going to create a new Big Bang and recreate the universe. Hamilton learned that there used to be a multiverse that was destroyed and reintegrated as a single universe during the Crisis. Because Earth was the nexus of the collapsed realities, its destruction could complete Imperiex' plan. Imperiex' command ship destroyed by the JSA so he could no longer manufacture probes, so he launched an all-out attack with his remaining Probes  on the White House. The Probes in Washington were destroyed when Major Sam Lane sacrificed his life to detonate the nuclear engine of his tank. President Luthor, the Atom and Doc Magnus devised a plan to crack Imperiex Prime's armor and channel the energies back to the galaxies he stole them from using a Boom Tube provided by Darkseid. Superman, Strange Visitor and the Blackhawks were responsible for delivering a payload of 30 hydrogen bombs to drop on Imperiex Prime. Strange Visitor absorbed Superman's energy and left him behind while she bombed Imperiex, sacrificing herself to crack his shell. Brainiac-13 stole the released energy using Warworld and used the LexCorp Towers, actually a temporal displacement cannon, to bombard Apokolips with the energy. Darkseid used this attack as a reason to declare war on Earth. Luthor rallied his forces to deal with Darkseid, and Lena Luthor appeared to him and revealed she'd manipulated for her master Brainiac-13's plans. Ignition met with Luthor as an emissary of General Zod and promised Luthor manpower to turn the tide against Darkseid and Brainiac-13 if he promised to help make Zod a world power, and Luthor agreed.

(Superman: The Man of Steel #117, Action Comics #782) - Zod and his allies helped Lex fight through Brainiac's drones and enter LexCorp Towers, where he was met by Lena. Lena attacked Lex, but couldn't bring herself to kill him. Luthor wouldn't apologize for handing over his daughter to Brainiac, he did what he had to to survive, which he told her was a trait of all Luthors. He told her he'd defeat Brainiac again, this time with her at his side. She agreed to learn about victory through manipulation from Luthor. Superman came up with a plan to deal with Warworld, but he needed Luthor to use the temporal displacement beam to fulfill it. Luthor was going to have Lena power it, but B-13 snatched her back to Warworld, so used Jimmy Olsen, who was convenient. He fired the temporal displacement beam into space the same moment Darkseid used the Omega Effect from Apokolips to create a Boom Tube in space. Steel used the Entropy Aegis to fuse the two, creating a Boom Tube that opened up to the beginning of time, which swallowed Warworld. Imperiex set off a big bang that melded with the original, allowing him to fulfill his purpose, and scattering B-13's consciousness across all spacetime. Lena was transformed back into a human infant., and Superman brought her back to Lex.

(JLA #69) - Luthor declared a state of emergency after several disasters around the world. He demanded that his staff find the JLA, who'd been missing for a month, not aware that they were trapped in Atlantis in the year 1,000 B.C.

(JLA #73) - Atlantean sorceress Gamemnae was siphoning Earth's water to Atlantis, causing a worldwide drought. The JLA confronted her, but she defeated them. President Luthor authorized several muon bombs to be dropped on Atlantis, assuming the JLA could escape in the 10 seconds he gave as a warning. They did avoid the bombs, but Gamemnae was also unaffected.

(JLA #80) - President Luthor attended the JLA s press conference announcing their new members, and he accused them of choosing minorities to fill a quota.

(JLA #84) - The Burning, who needed chaos and fear to reproduce, assaulted President Luthor with a wave of guilt, leaving him catatonic. Pete Ross and Amanda Waller contacted the JLA, and Martian Manhunter was able to repair Luthor s mind.

(Superman / Batman #1-6) - President Luthor informed his super-powered aides Captain Atom, Major Force, Black Lightning, Power Girl, Starfire, Katana and John Stewart that a kryptonite asteroid was on a collision course with Earth. Lex used nuclear arms transported by a Boom Tube to destroy it, but failed, so he called a press conference and blamed Superman's for the impending disaster, saying his very existence was attracting a piece of his home planet to Earth. He put a billion dollar bounty on Superman's head so he could face a trial for crimes against humanity. Lex had an interview with Lois Lane and promised he had proof that Superman was responsible for the asteroid. After Superman and Batman defeated a number of supervillains looking to collect the bounty, Lex sent his heroes to bring them into custody. Lex went into his White House bunker, where he kept a supply of combination venom / liquid kryptonite he was injecting himself with that boosted his strength and endurance but made him irrational and angry all the time. He showed Amanda Waller his new battlesuit that was designed on Apokolips. He told her he'd save Earth from the asteroid and repeal the 22nd Amendment limiting the terms of a President. Lex prematurely announced Batman and Superman's capture, leading the Batman and Superman Families to raid the White House. D.E.O. agents defeated the Superman Family, and when the Batman Family confronted Luthor in the oval office he knocked them out with nerve gas. Batman and Superman made their way into the White House disguised as Captain Marvel and Hawkman and freed their friends. Superman threatened Luthor, who told him to go ahead and kill him. Luthor's life would be a fair cost if his death destroyed Superman's reputation, but Superman wouldn't play into his vendetta and left. Luthor put on his battlesuit and decided he was the only one who could bring down Batman and Superman. In a public fight with Superman Luthor admitted that he knew Superman was not responsible for the asteroid, and that his presidency had ties to Apokolips. These statements ensured that Luthor would be impeached. Batman and Superman defeated Luthor, who fell from LexCorp Towers with his suit in ruins. A boom tube appeared and destroyed LexCorp Towers, covering up Darkseid's alliance to Luthor. The heroes thought Luthor dead, but he climbed from the rubble of the Towers muttering about a reckoning and a crisis coming on.

(Adventure Comics III #0) - Lex's control over Brainiac's technology allowed him to use Brainiac to kill his army guards and return the alien to his ship. The revived Brainiac grabbed Lex by his throat, and made it clear he'd only given him rudimentary control over him so he'd be reunited with his bio-shell. Brainiac made it clear they weren't leaving the ship, because they were now working together.

(Titans II #24, 25) - Threats were made on Lex's life after he was reappointed head of LexCorp, and he hired the Titans to make a fake attempt on his life during a business meeting in Midway City to ferret out the traitors. He took a limo ride with his new bodyguard Nava and fellow LexCorp board members, and threatened to have Nava kill them if no one confessed to being the traitor. The Titans attacked the limo, forcing them to flee to the sewers, where Nava revealed herself to be Façade, a LexCorp project sent to kill Lex by his board members. The Titans contained Façade, and the mutinous board members Cooper, Dyson and Monroe were killed. Lex returned Façade to LexCorps labs, and warned his LexCorp employees that if there were any more attempts on his life they would all end up as science experiments.

(Justice League of America II #0 (ff)) - Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman fought Lex Luthor after an incident involving his son.

Comments: Created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster.

Lex Lurhor received profiles in Who's Who Update '87 #3 and Who's Who In The DC Universe #13. Lex Luthor II received a profile in Who's Who in the DC Universe Update 1993 #2.

Lex Luthor had cameos in Action Comics #566, 650, Adventures of Superman #427, 435, Catwoman III #63-65, Martian Manhunter II #13, Sixpack #0 and Titans II #22.

There was a pin-up of Luthor I Superman: The Man of Steel Gallery #1.

In Bizarro Comics #1 Mr. Mxyzptlk created magical constructs of various villains, including Lex Luthor, to train Bizarro-Superman in combating villainy.

JLA #83 Superman entered Martian Manhunter s transconsious articulator for subconscious therapy. He envisioned President Luthor going to war with Quarac because they supposedly had W.M.D.s, and the American public felt betrayed that the U.S. declared war before they had proof. Superman didn't stop Luthor because he couldn't make up his mind as to the justness of the war. In the end of his vision Luthor told him patriot don't ask questions and killed him with kryptonite.

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