Superman had been around for 20 years when Brainiac first appeared on the scene, showing up in Action Comics #242 in 1958. Writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino created him. This was at the ...

In the ‘90s, this new Brainiac became one of Superman’s most lethal enemies, one Kal-El often needed the Justice League’s help to defeat. In 2008, writer Geoff Johns revealed that all the ...

But just as consistently, the alien android Brainiac has been his second most popular villain for decades. And yet, he’s never appeared in a live-action film, even after seven Superman films.