Thread:Lucien61/@comment-24845073-20140727202116/@comment-4889195-20140728022204

Post Crisis Luthor wasn't a super-villain, per se, just a power-hungry businessman with a severe hate-on for Superman. He took to wearing a Kryptonite ring to keep Supes away. He eventually lost his hand to Kryptonite radiation poisoning. He replaced it with a robot prosthesis. Eventually, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, faked his death, passed his cloned self off as his own son & blew-up Metropolis. That covers early-to-mid 90s Luthor, not that you asked. :)