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DaibhidC Wizzard Since: Jan, 2001
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Aug 29th 2015 at 4:42:01 PM •••

I'm not sure I buy the explanation that Luthor's infant daughter Lena was retconned into being his adult sister Lena.

There was already a "Luthor's sister Lena" counterpart in Post-Crisis continuity; his dead foster-sister whom Baby Lena was named after. There's no reason why she couldn't have been named after a living sister, and there's no indication these stories didn't happen post-Infinite Crisis, beyond the fact she never gets mentioned. (The DC wiki lists the two Lenas as niece and aunt, so they think they co-existed.)

In any event, Baby Lena makes her last appearance more than a year before Infnite Crisis, and is notably absent from the Superman/Batman story that closed out the Luthor presidency, so being retconned out in IC (whether or not she "turns into" the older Lena) doesn't explain where she went before that.

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