Luthor as he appears in Action Comics #23 (1940). In Action # 23, Luthor is revealed as an insane tech genius who lives in a dirigible hovering above the Earth. And like James Gunn, Siegel and Schuster weren’t necessarily making a big political statement with this particular story. And, like Boravia and Jarhanpur, when you read Action #23, Galonia and Toran feel similarly generic. You can read Action Comics #23 as part of the anthology book, DC Finest: Superman: The First Superhero.