Kirk Alyn over the poster fro Atom Man vs Superman
Lex Luthor has always been an important antagonist to the DC Universe, but his appearance in the 1950 serial Atom Man Vs. Superman is one of the strangest that has ever been seen with the character. With performances of all kinds for the villain, from Gene Hackman's playfully mad genius to Michael Cudlitz's genuinely evil Lex, Superman's arch-nemesis has been shown several different ways throughout the years. One of the earliest, however, sets a very strange template.
Atom Man Vs Superman's Plot Looks So Much Weirder Over 70 Years Later The Film Sees Lex Luthor Using A Number Of Odd Devices The story of Atom Man Vs. Superman is strange, and sees much of the technology-obsessed Lex Luthor of the Golden Age of Comic Books. In the serial, Luthor as Atom Man, with a giant, unusual mask, creates a series of gadgets to destroy Superman.
Why Atom Man Vs Superman's Plot Is So Bizarre The Format And Context Were Important To The Film Close The story of Atom Man Vs. Superman is heavily influenced and restricted by its form. Rather than telling everything at once, the film had to be broken up into 15 chapters that totaled a 252-minute runtime.
Related James Gunn's Newest DC Universe Comments Confirm That The 1 DCEU Superman Moment That Could Have Crossed Over Isn't Canon James Gunn keeps updating what is and isn't DCU canon from the DCEU, and his latest comments erase a Superman moment that could have crossed over.
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