| LEX LUTHOR | CHRONOLOGY |
| Created by Jerry Siegel and Al Plastino |
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CHRONOLOGY
Lex Luthor first appeared in Adventure Comics #271 (April 1960): "How Luthor Met Superboy".
Below is the definitive list of appearances of Lex Luthor in chronological order. Flashback sequences or story entries will be followed by a [Flashback] note. Stories that for some reason are no longer part of current continuity will have a comment saying this in a note following the entry.
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Lex Luthor Chronology
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| Superboy Vol. 1 #102 (January 1963): "The Amazing Tots of Smallville" |
| Adventure Comics #271 (April 1960): "How Luthor Met Superboy" [Up to Page 4, Panel 4] |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #120 (April 1965): "The Fate of the Future Superman" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #125 (December 1965): "The Bald Boy of Steel" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #139 (June 1967): "The Town That Hated Superboy" |
| Action Comics #295/2 (December 1962): "The Girl with the X-Ray Mind" [Flashback] |
| Superman Vol. 1 #173/2 (November 1964): "Tales of Green Kryptonite No. 1" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #292 (October 1975): "The Luthor Nobody Knows" [Flashback] |
| Adventure Comics #271 (April 1960): "How Luthor Met Superboy" [Page 4, Panel 5+] |
| Adventure Comics #253 (October 1958): "Superboy Meets Robin the Boy Wonder" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #86/3 (January 1961): "The Army of Living Kryptonite Men" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #91 (September 1961): "Superboy's Civil War Time Trip" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #92/2 (October 1961): "Krypto's Arch-Enemy" |
| Adventure Comics #292 (January 1962): "The Laughing Stock of Smallville" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #96 (April 1962): "The New Boy of Steel" |
| Adventure Comics #300/2 (September 1962): "The Face Behind the Lead Mask" |
| Adventure Comics #301 (October 1962): "Lex Luthor and Clark Kent: Cell-Mates" |
| Adventure Comics #308 (May 1963): "The Super-Menace of Smallville" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #107/3 (September 1963): "Clark Kent, the Super-Showoff" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #115/2 (September 1964): "The Phantom Zone Fugitive" |
| Adventure Comics #325 (October 1964): "Lex Luthor Meets the Legion of Super-Heroes" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #121/2 (June 1965): "Jor-El's Visit to Earth" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #131 (July 1966): "Lex Luthor, Imp" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #166/2 (June 1970): "The Kryptonite Conqueror" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #169 (October 1970): "No Escape for Superboy" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #173 (April 1971): "The Super-Clark of Smallville" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #177 (September 1971): "Our Traitor Super-Son" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #179 (November 1971): "Death is My Dominion" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #292 (October 1975): "The Luthor Nobody Knows" [Flashback] |
| Adventure Comics #454 (November-December 1977): "How Green is My Home Town?" |
| Adventure Comics #455 (January-February 1978): "I Can't Go Home Again" |
| New Adventures of Superboy #11 (November 1980): "Superboy's Amazing New Power" |
| New Adventures of Superboy #14 (February 1981): "Luthor's Power Ploy" |
| New Adventures of Superboy #38 (February 1983): "The Day That Lasted Forever" |
| New Adventures of Superboy #48 (December 1983): "One Super Power Too Many" |
| New Adventures of Superboy #50 (February 1984): "Dial V for Villain" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #161 (May 1963): "The Last Days of Ma and Pa Kent" [Flashback] |
| Superman: The Secret Years #1 (February 1985): "Dreams and Schemes and Feeling Proud" |
| Superman: The Secret Years #2 (March 1985): "Reach Out and Touch" |
| Superman: The Secret Years #4 (May 1985): "Beyond Terminus" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #135 (February 1960): "When Lois First Suspected Clark Was Superman" [Flashback] |
| Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #5/3 (May-June 1955): "The Story of Superman's Souvenirs" [Flashback] |
| Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #9/2 (December 1955): "The Million-Dollar Question" [Flashback] |
| Action Comics #228 (May 1957): "Superman's Super Skyscraper" [Flashback] |
| World's Finest Comics #105 (November 1959): "The Alien Superman" [Flashback] |
| Action Comics #199 (December 1954): "The Phantom Superman" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #101 (November 1955): "Luthor's Amazing Rebus" |
| Action Comics #210 (November 1955): "Superman in Superman Land" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #106/3 (July 1956): "The Super-Outlaw of Metropolis" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #110/3 (January 1957): "The Defeat of Superman" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #112/2 (March 1957): "Superman's Fatal Costume" |
| Action Comics #226 (March 1957): "The Invulnerable Enemy" |
| World's Finest Comics #88 (May-June 1957): "Superman's and Batman's Greatest Foes" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #117/2 (November 1957): "The Secret of Fort Superman" |
| Action Comics #236 (January 1958): "Superman's New Uniform" |
| World's Finest Comics #94 (May-June 1958): "The Origin of the Superman-Batman Team" |
| Action Comics #249 (February 1959): "The Kryptonite Man" |
| World's Finest Comics #100 (March 1959): "The Dictator of Krypton City" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #128/2 (April 1959): "The Sleeping Beauty from Krypton" [Behind the scenes] |
| Action Comics #254 (July 1959): "The Battle with Bizarro" |
| World's Finest Comics #104 (September 1959): "The Plot to Destroy Superman" |
| Action Comics #257 (October 1959): "The Reporter of Steel" |
| Batman #130/3 (March 1960): "The Hand from Nowhere" |
| Action Comics #267 (August 1960): "Hercules in the 20th Century" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #85/2 (December 1960): "The Impossible Mission" |
| Action Comics #271 (December 1960): "Voyage to Dimension X" |
| Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #23/2 (February 1961): "The Curse of Lena Thorul" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #144 (April 1961): "The Super-Weapon" |
| World's Finest Comics #117 (May 1961): "The Super-Batwoman and the Super-Creature" |
| Action Comics #277 (June 1961): "The Conquest of Superman" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #146 (July 1961): "The Story of Superman's Life" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #146/2 (July 1961): "Superman's Greatest Feats" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #147/3 (August 1961): "The Legion of Super-Villains" |
| Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #28 (October 1961): "The Lois Lane of the Future" |
| Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #28/3 (October 1961): "Lois Lane, Gun-Moll" |
| Action Comics #279/2 (August 1961): "Supergirl's Secret Enemy" |
| Action Comics #280/2 (September 1961): "Trapped in Kandor" |
| Action Comics #282/2 (November 1961): "The Supergirl of Tomorrow" |
| Action Comics #285 (February 1962): "The World's Greatest Heroine" |
| Adventure Comics #293/2 (February 1962): "The Good Deeds of Bizarro-Luthor" |
| Action Comics #286/2 (March 1962): "The Death of Luthor" |
| World's Finest Comics #126 (June 1962): "The Negative Superman" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #154/2 (July 1962): "Krypton's First Superman" |
| Action Comics #292 (September 1962): "When Superman Defended His Arch-Enemy" |
| Action Comics #294 (November 1962): "The Kryptonite Killer" |
| World's Finest Comics #129 (November 1962): "Joker-Luthor, Incorporated" |
| Action Comics #295/2 (December 1962): "The Girl with the X-Ray Mind" |
| Action Comics #296/2 (January 1963): "The Girl Who Was Supergirl's Double" |
| Action Comics #297/2 (February 1963): "The Forbidden Weapons of Krypton" |
| Action Comics #298/2 (March 1963): "The Super-Powers of Lex Luthor" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #179/2 (August 1965): "The Menace of Gold Kryptonite" [Flashback] |
| Superman Vol. 1 #164 (October 1963): "The Showdown Between Luthor and Superman" |
| World's Finest Comics #137 (November 1963): "Superman's Secret Master" |
| Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #74/2 (January 1964): "Jimmy Olsen and the Forty Thieves" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #167 (February 1964): "The Team of Luthor and Brainiac" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #168 (April 1964): "Luthor--Super-Hero" |
| Action Comics #309 (February 1964): "The Superman Super-Spectacular" |
| Action Comics #313/2 (June 1964): "Lena Thorul, Jungle Princess" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #170/2 (July 1964): "If Lex Luthor Were Superman's Father" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #172 (October 1964): "The New Superman" |
| Action Comics #317/2 (October 1964): "The Great Supergirl Double-Cross" |
| Action Comics #332 (January 1966): "The Super-Vengeance of Lex Luthor" [Flashback] |
| Action Comics #318 (November 1964): "The Death of Luthor" |
| Action Comics #319 (December 1964): "The Condemned Superman" |
| Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #87 (September 1965): "The Arena of Doom" |
| Action Comics #332 (January 1966): "The Super-Vengeance of Lex Luthor" |
| Action Comics #333 (February 1966): "Superman's Super-Boo-Boos" |
| Action Comics #335 (March 1966): "Luthor's First Victory Over Superman" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #135 (January 1967): "The Menace of the Mechano-Master" |
| Action Comics #354 (September 1967): "Captain Incredible" |
| Justice League of America #61 (March 1968): "Operation: Jail the Justice League" |
| Action Comics #363 (May 1968): "The Leper from Krypton" |
| Action Comics #364 (June 1968): "The Untouchable of Metropolis" |
| Action Comics #365 (July 1968): "Superman's Funeral" [Behind the scenes] |
| World's Finest Comics #177 (August 1968): "Duel of the Crime Kings" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #213 (January 1969): "The Most Dangerous Door in the World" |
| World's Finest Comics #183 (March 1969): "Superman's Crime of the Ages" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #159 (September 1969): "The Day It Rained Superboys" |
| World's Finest Comics #189 (November 1969): "The Man with Superman's Heart" |
| World's Finest Comics #190 (December 1969): "The Final Revenge of Luthor" |
| Adventure Comics #387/2 (December 1969): "Lex Luthor's Outlaw Nephew" |
| Adventure Comics #388 (January 1970): "The Kindergarten Criminal" |
| Adventure Comics #397/2 (September 1970): "Supergirl Meets Nasty" |
| Action Comics #407 (December 1971): "The Fiend in the Fortress of Solitude" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #248 (February 1972): "The Man Who Murdered the Earth" |
| Action Comics #413 (June 1972): "The Voodoo Doom of Superman" |
| Action Comics #417 (October 1972): "The Conspiracy of the Crime-Lords" |
| Action Comics #418 (November 1972): "The Attack of the Phantom Super-Foes" |
| Action Comics #423 (April 1973): "Luthor's Hammer of Hate" |
| Action Comics #428 (October 1973): "Whatever Happened to Superman?" |
| Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #162 (December 1973-January 1974): "One by One My Brothers Die" |
| Shazam! #15 (November-December 1974): "Captain Marvel Meets Lex Luthor" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #282 (December 1974): "Lex Luthor--Super Scalp-Hunter" |
| Action Comics #443 (January 1975): "At Last! Clark Kent, Super-Hero" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #286 (April 1975): "The Parasite's Power Play" |
| Superman Family #172 (August-September 1975): "The Cheat the Whole World Cheered" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #292 (October 1975): "The Luthor Nobody Knows" |
| Justice League of America #128 (March 1976): "Death-Visions of the Justice League" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #299 (May 1976): "The Double-Or-Nothing Life of Superman" |
| Action Comics #456/2 (February 1976): "Bail Out the Nutty Kid" [In disguise] |
| Action Comics #457/2 (March 1976): "Flight of the Nutty Kid" |
| Action Comics #458/2 (April 1976): "Masquerade of the Nutty Kid" |
| Joker #7 (May-June 1976): "Luthor--You're Driving Me Sane" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #302 (August 1976): "Seven-Foot-Two, and Still Growing" |
| Action Comics #464 (October 1976): "Superman, I'm Going to Re-Run Your Life" [Unrevealed] |
| Action Comics #465 (November 1976): "Think Young and Die" |
| Action Comics #466 (December 1976): "You Can Take the Man Out of the Super, But You Can't Take the Super Out of the Boy" |
| DC Super-Stars #10 (December 1976): "The Great Super-Star Game" |
| Superman Family #182/5 (March-April 1977): "The Deadly Treasure of Mars" |
| Secret Society of Super-Villains #6 (March-April 1977): "Captains Cataclysmic!" |
| Secret Society of Super-Villains #7 (May-June 1977): "Luthor's League of Super-Villains!" |
| DC Special Series #5 (1977): "The Second Coming of Superman" |
| Batman Vol. 1 #291 (September 1977): "Where Were You On the Night Batman Was Killed?" |
| Batman Vol. 1 #292 (October 1977): "The Testimony of the Riddler" |
| Batman Vol. 1 #293 (November 1977): "The Testimony of Luthor" |
| Action Comics #486/2 (August 1978): "Hero for a Day" |
| Action Comics #500 (October 1979): "The Life Story of Superman" |
| Action Comics #510 (August 1980): "Luthor's Last Stand" |
| Action Comics #511 (September 1980): "Luthor Fights for Good" |
| Action Comics #512 (October 1980): "Luthor's Day of Reckoning" |
| Action Comics #525 (November 1981): "Neutron Nightmare" [Flashback] |
| Superman Vol. 1 #416 (February 1986): "The Einstein Connection" [Flashback] |
| Superman Vol. 1 #363 (September 1981): "The Dying Day of Lois and Lana" |
| DC Special Series #26 (summer 1981): "Fortress of Fear" |
| Superman Family #214 (January 1982): "The Strange Revenge of Lena Luthor" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #416 (February 1986): "The Einstein Connection" [Flashback] |
| DC Comics Presents Annual #1 (1982): "Crisis on Three Earths" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #416 (February 1986): "The Einstein Connection" [Flashback] |
| Superman Annual Vol. 1 #9 (1983): "Villain, Villain, Who's Got the Villain?" |
| Action Comics #542 (April 1983): "Savage Awakening" |
| Action Comics #544 (June 1983): "Luthor Unleashed" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #385 (July 1983): "Luthor Rises Again" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #386 (August 1983): "Luthor Lashes Back" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #401 (November 1984): "Operation: False Front" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #410 (August 1985): "Clark Kent--Fired" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #412 (October 1985): "Luthor--Today You Die" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #413 (November 1985): "Superman--Your World is Mine" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #6 (September 1985): "3 Earths! 3 Deaths!" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #9 (December 1985): "War Zone" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #10 (January 1986): "Death at the Dawn of Time!" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #11 (February 1986): "Aftershock" |
| DC Comics Presents Annual #4 (1985): "Welcome to Luthorcon III" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #416 (February 1986): "The Einstein Connection" |
| Heroes Against Hunger #1 (1986): "A Song of Pain and Sorrow" |
| Superman Annual Vol. 1 #12 (1986): "Luthor's Ultra-Ego" |