Pre-Crisis Lex Luthor Vs. Thanos the Mad Titan

Prep war.
Both Luthor and Thanos get the exact same resources, get their powers evened out, and get 1 year of prep against each other.

Who comes out on top?

Thanos

Are you insinuating that Pre Crisis Superman, is as powerful as the entire Marvel universe, written by a grown up. Cos thats what it seems.... Indirectly

Time-Ray FTW.

Lex finds a way to steal Thanos's artifacts/tech.
All in 1-3 panels.

Anyone smarter than either of the two in all of comics?

Man calm down there's a reason why all that shit was retconned...

Thanos takes this.

Metron or Darkseid would be a better matchup.

Originally posted by galactusischere
Anyone smarter than either of the two in all of comics?

Reed on a good day ... He's the only one who wasn't there as Infinity Gauntlet .... or was he ? It so bad I can't remember.

^ This is purely a prep war though. Thanos and LL get their powers evened out so neither of the two is stronger.

Thanos wins by far.His intellect is superior to that of lex and he has ways to trick people like he tricked mephisto into giving him information he needed in exchange for a non-functioning cosmic cube.

Originally posted by galactusischere
^ This is purely a prep war though. Thanos and LL get their powers evened out so neither of the two is stronger.

Its too unquantifiable. Its like debating who would win a fight ... Jerry, or Bugs Bunny.

If anyone starts debating this, then they are welcome back at mine, for a few drinks !!!!

Originally posted by Enyalus
Thanos takes this.

Metron or Darkseid would be a better matchup.

Giving Thanos prep makes it spite against the other guy.

Lex Luthor built a time machine out of a lightbulb, cans of tomato juice, and some spiral wiring.

Originally posted by quanchi112
Giving Thanos prep makes it spite against the other guy.

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Originally posted by King Kandy
Lex Luthor built a time machine out of a lightbulb, cans of tomato juice, and some spiral wiring.

Originally posted by Cartesian Doubt
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Originally posted by King Kandy
Lex Luthor built a time machine out of a lightbulb, cans of tomato juice, and some spiral wiring.

makes you realize how stupid pre-crisis feats were..

To be fair, apparently he couldn't actually figure out this ridiculously simple method, but actually cosmic king told him how to do it iirc.

Lex builds a trap that says "Trap to capture Thanos" and Thanos walks in it