Now that you remind me I do remember it being mentioned that he was working in Dinah’s shop. I never did follow Green Arrow in his own title, though. Just as a member of the JLA.
Not really.
He ignored it until it was stolen out from under him. It was still going strong even after he’d been forced out.
I don’t know about regular hours and reporting to someone else, but wasn’t he a mayor for a while?
David/Bruce Banner, except that he’s on the run.
Underdog could shine the hell out of a shoe in his alter ego job!
I think that throws a little suspicion on their competency, really…
That depends on the writer; a lot of Marvel Crossovers started with him being sent to take pics of something happening outside NYC. Sometimes he’s taking pics of normal information when his Spidey-sense starts tingling - those times it doesn’t don’t get shown “on screen”, as it were.
Let’s bring in the corollary to this trope…that J. Johan Jameson is too stupid to realize that Spider-Man only appears in cities other than New York when he’s sent Parker to that city to cover a story…
He was like a trust-fund baby or something.
And he lost it in some scam that was less sophisticated than “I’ll give you 5 magic beans for your entire fortune”. (Brave and Bold 85, IIRC). Green Arrow was never the sharpest arrow in the quiver.
There were a number of stories in the 2000s, by Waid, Morrison and a few others talking about how Atom was considered by students to be the single coolest teacher at Ivy U. (One thing he did was have (something like) a block of lucite on his desk, and inside was microscopic desk with an even more microscopic copy of the answer key to this term’s final. Figure out how to read it and get an automatic “A”.
Thinking about it, most Superheroes seem to be able to balance their Super heroics and their occupations. It is their personal lives that always get the short end of the stick.
Actually, there was a pretty good Sub-Mariner mini-series from the mid-late 80s period based around the idea that Namor was in fact not a good monarch, and that he basically ignored important administerial duties to go off on adventures with (sometimes against) the FF, the Defenders and such, to the extreme detriment of the people of Atlantis. The series concludes with Namor’s own royal advisors asking him to abdicate his crown, and he is forced to leave Atlantis in disgrace because he has failed his subjects. (At least he had his stock portfolio to fall back on!) This was shortly before he joined the Avengers in their own series. The series is worth reading if you ever happen to find back issues of it.
One twist: There was a storyline in which the Kingpin learned Daredevil’s secret identity and used it specifically to destroy Murdock’s personal life.
‘I like it here. Four of my students have crushes on me. Three of them are girls.’
Incidentally, how about the classic Stage-Magician-Using-Genuine-Powers day job, as worked by Zatanna and Sargon and et cetera back to Mandrake?
They could go for a whole decade until a writer needed a hook. A number of times the dethroning came from political intrique inside Atlantis. IMHO, most of the better stories for either of them came while they were in absentia from their realms.
Sure, but he’s a terrible real-estate investor – all his properties are completely under water.
Company?? Batman’s changed since I was a kid: back in the 1960s, Bruce Wayne was simply a “millionaire playboy.”
He couldn’t have been a very good playboy, though, at least not in the Hugh Hefner sense of the term. Can you imagine his being in the sack with some babe when the Bat-Signal shines?
I always assumed the public perception of Bruce Wayne was that he was a just an empty, spoiled rich kid, basically a male Paris Hilton. That was what made his identity so secret. It was unfathomable to people that he could do anything right, let alone be Batman. Would you believe it if someone told you Paris Hilton was really a super competent secret agent?
Prof. Pepperwinkle:
Not to mention turn invisible, walk through walls, and adopt any disguise he could imagine.
Amongst those not mentioned:
Doctor Mid-Nite (both Charles McNider and Pieter Cross) was an excellent physician.
Wildcat was a champion boxer.
Green Lantern Alan Scott was good at running a radio station.
First mention of the Wayne Foundation was in 1966. It was established two years earlier, in '64, but was originally called The Pennyworth Foundation, in memory of Batman’s beloved butler Alfred, who was dead at the time. He got better a few years later, prompting the name change. By '69, Bruce had abandoned Wayne Manor and moved into the penthouse on top of the Wayne Foundation skyscraper in downtown Gotham.
Bill Katt’s Greatest American Hero had one promotion as a high school teacher.