Yeah, Disco Collar Lex rules!

I don't know much about DC, and fashion choices aside, I'm impressed by the hater energy in discovering a means of victory over the immutable concept of aging, and -- rather than using that to influence public opinion or launder your reputation -- going "this is how I win a fistfight with the opps"

If I remember correctly, he didn't really turn them into kids.

Even better, dude saw his shot and took it

Bummer. Every time I think I might be interested in comics, the full context disappoints me.

Superman does use an actual (albeit temporary) youth serum to protect his secret identity, though.

Luthor shot Superman with a ray but lied about its power to regress age, and built robots of young Batman & Flash to sell the lie. Because Superman believed the lie, his body regressed itself subconsciously via "Super Power of Suggestion." That, good sir, makes Lex a bigger hater than you thought.

Agree to disagree RE: hater size. I admired the choice to ignore the potential good in a miracle breakthrough of medical science; instead, subverting and debasing it to serve his irrepressible hater nature (like the Spider-Man pterodactyl meme) If that miracle didn't even exist, I'm not impressed

Well, Luthor's done plenty of that, over the years. In this case, he managed to discover a form of hypnosis so powerful it caused physical changes to the subject, which is quite an achievement. And then he never used it again.

That story was SO confusing. Did he replicate their origins with kids, or make them younger, somehow? The story wanted it both ways. I get the feeling it went through some rewrites but it wasn't fixed consistently.

I re-read it recently and was reminded of the deep feeling of frustration younger me felt over the inconsistencies.

If I remember correctly, this was a case of Neal Adams drawing the cover first, and Cart Bates being told to come up with a story for it.

It’s better than the armor.