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4. SUPERMAN'S ENEMIES:
ULTRA-HUMANITE:
Mad scientist, enemy of Superman that appears in the first issues of the saga. He is bald, in an age that Luthor has red hair. First appearance in ACTION COMICS NO.13 in June 1939.
LEX LUTHOR:
The principal Superman's enemy or at least the most classic and durable, that appears for the first time in ACTION COMICS NO.23 in April 1940, wearing red hair becomig bald in SUPERMAN NO.10/1 in May-June 1941. Afterwards, in ADVENTURE COMICS NO.271 in April 1960, it is explained that Luthor becomes bald cuando when he weas young making and experiment in which his laboratory blows up and produces a fire and when Superboy arrives and extinguishes the fire with his super-breath, disperses unintentionally a chemical product over Luthors head that becomes bald and this is why Luthor hates Superboy. In the post-Crisis, Luthor also wear red hair at the begining although afterwards becomes bald. Instead of beig the mad scientist of the pre-Crisis version, is a multimillionaire that move the Society lines as he wants having the better scientist to perform his criminal ideas, albeit he always pretends to be a benefactor in his public appearances. Afterwards, the real Luthor is his brain that is inside a clone with long hair until...
THE PRANKSTER:
Superman enemy that makes his crimes with jokes. In the Novaro version he is known as "El Bromista". First appearance in ACTION COMICS NO.51 in August 1942.
THE TOYMAN:
Superman enemy that makes his crimes using toys. In the Novaro version he is known as "El Juguetero". First appearance in ACTION COMICS NO.64 in September 1943.
LEGION OF SUPERVILLAINS:
Luthor thinks that if there is a Legion of Super-Heroes in the future, there also must be a Legion of Super-Villains and traveling to the future he finds that it is true. They are Cosmic King, Lightning Lord and Saturn Queen. The four villains agree in eliminating Superman but they cannot do it. First appearance in SUPERMAN 147/3 in August 1961.
MR. MXYZPTLK:
Fifth dimensional imp that comes to the Earth every 90 days causing all kind of problems to Superman, until he is able to return it to his dimension making that the imp pronunces his name backwards, the only way to get over him. First appearance in SUPERMAN NO.30/1 in September-October 1944. In the last picture of the adventure, the editorial ask the readers that if they want to see more Mr. Mxyzptlk adventures, send a postacard. The "TP" of his name became "PT" in SUPERMAN NO 131/1 in August 1959. Of all Superman's enemies, becomes the worst at the end of the pre-Crisis era, killing some of the best Superman's friends, and almost kills the Man of Steel (ACTION COMICS NO.583 and SUPERMAN NO.423 in 1986, reprinted in oneshot issue recently).
BRAINIAC:
The second worse enemy of Superman after Luthor. In fact, in many occasions, Lex Luthor and Brainiac are associated to kill Superman. First appearance in ACTION COMICS NO.242 in July 1958 when miniaturice an entire city, among others, the Kryptonian city of Kandor. In the post-Crisis version appears again in ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN NO.438. At the begining is an extraterrestrial, afterwards a human super-computer created by the tiran inhabitants of the planet Colu, in their trying to conquer the universe. The new Brainiac in the post-Crisis era is different as at the begining is the union between hte body of a person with some mental powers, with the consciencie of the dead Vril Dox, a scientist of the planet Colu. Afterwards, with the help of Luthor, Brainiac will get a replica of his original Coluan body.
METALLO:
A robot-man, enemy of Superman. His heart is maintains alive with a piece of green Kryptonite and this is why he becomes a great danger to the Man of Steel. First appearance in SUPERBOY NO.49 in 1956.
TITANO:
At the begining a chimpanzee of a zoo named Toto. Sent in a satellite that collides with two radioactive metorites, one of uranium and another of Kryptonite. When he returns to Earth is transformed in a gigantic ape that emit Kryptonite radiations. Because of a strange fixation, he is docile with Lois Lane. First appearance in SUPERMAN NO.127 in February 1959.
PARASITE:
Character that absorbs the energies of the human beings, even the one from Superman. First appearance in ACTION COMICS NO.340 in August 1966.
TERRA-MAN:
A child sun of a Western era outlaw that is kidnapped by an extraterrestrial and educatedas a criminal from outer spaceo. He looks like a Western gunman. First appearance in SUPERMAN NO.249 in March 1972.
VARTOX:
Extraterrestrial of the planet Valeron, that at the begining is a Superman enemy, but later becomes friends. Valeron blows uo, like Krypton and Vartox came to Earth where Superman gave him a secret identity, having a romance with Lana Lang that ended bad and because of that Vartox finally left the planet Earth looking for another world to live in and use his super-powers. First appearance in SUPERMAN NO.281 in November 1974.
MAXIMA:
Extraterrestrial woman from the planet Almerac, looking for an appropiate husband for her faculties, falling in love with Superman and coming to Earth looking for him, but she does not get her intentions. In one of the possibles futurs of Superman, they become friends after the death of Lois Lane and finally she lives on Earth joining the Justice League of America. First appearance in ACTION COMICS NO.651 in March 1990.
ERADICATOR:
Kryptonian device that survives the explosion of the planet Krypton that comes to the Superman hands. When the Man of Steel realizes that is very dangerous, he through it to the Antartic ices. The device, that was programed in Krypton to recreate the environment of that planet, it builds the Fortress of Solitude of this new era and continue trying to transform the Earth in a Krypton duplicate. In its trying, transforms Superman in a though Kryptonian personality (Krypton Man), but fails as puts in danger the adoptives parents of Superman, he throws the Erradicator to the Sun in order to destroy it permanently. However, the Erradicator survives getting the form of a human being named Krypton Man and transforming in a new enemy. First appearance in ACTION COMICS ANNUAL NO.2 of the Byrne era.
DOOMSDAY:
Brutal creature that destroys everything and a being you cannot reason with. He is the apparent reason of the Superman death (several editions. Text in Spanish), in a great battle in wich both of them apparently die. (SUPERMAN NO.75 in January 1993). First appearance in SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL 17 November 1992.
