Smallville Tie-ins
Lionel makes his first appearance outside of the television series in the Aspect publisher Smallville: Strange Visitors. Here, Lionel is concerned that con artist Donald Jacobi will bring too much attention to the meteor rocks in Smallville, and ruin his plans to use the rocks for experimentations. Lionel goes so far as to have the life of Jacobi's partner put in jeopardy when he threatens to alert some mobsters, who are looking for him because of some past indiscretions, as to his present location just to make sure that the pair leave Smallville immediately. He makes a brief appearance in Smallville: Dragon, only to acknowledge to Lex that he used Renata, an old girlfriend of Lex's, to get close to Lex in an effort to test him, though he does not elaborate on what reason he was testing Lex. The Smallville version of Lionel makes a brief appearance in the second volume of the internet series Smallville: Chloe Chronicles, where he threatens Chloe after she discovers that he has something to do with the deaths of several individuals.
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