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Or it was New York city and nobody cared.

All that tanning you do in the middle of the night...

Obviously this wouldn't work in Los Angeles where half of the world's billionaires hang out.

Gotham looks like a New York type "centre of the world" city, with extremely wealthy people living there

Depending on the era, Bruce himself was supposed to be seen as kind of worthless as a person. I think it made a lot more sense then, you'd never look at like Barron Trump and be like yeah, that guy's really a relatively respected masked superhero.

The key of the disguise is exceptional lack of competency.

Also, i don't expect a rich guy to fight for the people alone

But who really gets to see the planes, and the tanks? And confirms that he has diamond body armor instead of super powers.

Unless you are a super villain - which in Gotham virtually guarantees severe mental illness - at best you will see one of them moments before Batman irrevocably destroys your body. He might not kill you but you will be brain dead.

Heh, me too. I was like, isn't Lois Lane the award winning journalist and Clark Kent is somewhere between her gopher and mentee? But then there's lots of different stories by lots of different authors. I guess maybe they originally thought Clark Kent was as far from Superman as you could get, being less than a woman. Dame.

That's the most forties thing I've heard about Superman.

(Only, that's not a typesetter. Seems rather to be an editor. A typesetter put letters in a printing press, or did page layout with computers in early digital era before WYSIWYG. The profession is probably obsolete now.)

I think both are a bit absurd.

Sure Batman covers half of his face and disguises his voice. But, both Batman and Bruce Wayne regularly appear in newspapers. Bruce Wayne may be reclusive for a billionare, but he still regularly goes to high society / charity events and gets his picture taken. I don't know if you could identify Batman by the similarlities fo their chins alone. But, they're the same height, same weight, etc. too. Plus, why is this billionaire ridiculously jacked? Why does he frequently have injuries? And yeah, Batman disguises his voice, but he doesn't put on what seems like a different natural voice. He doesn't do an accent or something. He just adds a bit of a growl to it.

People are obsessed with superheroes as it is, and they're fictional. Imagine how obsessed people would be with Batman if he were real. Take the obsession people have over celebrities and athletes and dial it way up. Even if a chin isn't a lot to go on, people would be obsessing over his chin and lips and neck, looking for any identifying features.

Superman is even more ridiculous. It's just glasses. Maybe his hair is a bit different, but his head and face are almost unchanged. And, AFAIK, it's not even like his glasses have real lenses in them. If he did something like wear contacts with a strong prescription and glasses with an opposite but strong prescription so that the glasses completely distorted his eyes, that might do it. But, he's basically just wearing frames.

And again, there's the body. Why does the nerdy reporter have a body like he spends every spare moment in the gym, and yet he apparently doesn't even play any sports? Why does Superman almost never save him, but is always saving his colleague at the Daily Planet? It isn't like Batman where Clark Kent's image is in the newspaper all the time. But, there are plenty of people who know Clark Kent well, and also spend a lot of time around Superman.

The one thing I can see going for Superman is that it's not clear that he actually has a secret identity. Batman goes around with a mask, which hints that there's something to see under that mask. Superman seems to have nothing to hide. People might assume that when he's not out saving lives, he's at home, or he's recharging his powers somehow, or returning to his home planet, or something else. Why would this super-being have a day job?

But, surely any Superman fanatics who wanted to spot him in person, or wanted to know more would spend all their time hanging out at the Daily Planet building. If there's one place you're likely to find Superman in Metropolis it's near the Daily Planet. So, while these superfans are staking out the Daily Planet, wouldn't they notice this guy in a suit who has Superman's build, Superman's haircut, and most importantly, Superman's face?

I have stories! I never recognize anyone.

A friend once got a haircut and it took me weeks to figure out who she was. I just thought she was a new person hanging out with someone there and wanted to be my friend because she kept talking to me.

Many years ago I looked right at my (now ex) partner at an airport when I was picking her up and kept on looking for her. We lived together at the time.

I ran into my lead singer at the store. He was wearing the same thing he always wears but had his hair pulled back. He stopped and talked to me and apparently I looked like I was trying to escape. He was telling the story at band practice when I had to admit I didn't recognize him.

This is an ongoing problem in my life. I probably have a dozen of these stories that I can remember off the top of my head and a hundred more that I could dig out. I wouldn't even want to guess how many people have talked to me that I don't realize I knew them. Clark Kent taking off his glasses and suddenly becoming unrecognizable is totally reasonable to me. Dude could look me in the eyes, take off his glasses, and it would be like a whole new person appeared.

https://youtu.be/Decj0Q4a4U4

Henry Cavill discussing Superman disguise

No. He's amazing reporter. While he delivered awesome investigative work, he's most tecognized for his human-intrest feature stories. He have great compasion that spawn great insights, and he's master of words. He win Pulitzer twice, and launched a movement for change once or twice. By all account he's one-in-a-generstion superstar reporter. And Lois is better.

OK. But you don't go: "How could Wonder Women afford invisible high-tech jet? She must be the owner of fortune 500 company". That because you know things. You have more information and assume it's general knowledge. People are just as likely to see batman as gadget-men, as magic-men or demon or mutant. Or alien. Superman have army of robots and he's poor. A lot of weird things in this world.

In a world where alien bugs and wizards give powers to children and its commong knowledge there is people living under the sea with way more advanced tech than anybody else, i dont think people can really separate if the gadgets are alien, magic or billionare tech.

Comic book nerd here.

Clark does not mingle much with ordinary people outside his parents and people who he works with. And obviously his parent know who he is and most of his close colleagues have figured it out at somepoint.

Also he acts completelly differend. The big guy at the work with bad posture and messy hair, who you have seen having hard time moving his desk at the office does not go straight to "Hey that dude must be the superman"

Also depending of the story he uses contact lenses, or his classes change the colour of his eyes. Again depending from the story from disting blue or disting green to something more normal. Newer stories have also added his glasses to have mindcontroll powers from Kryptonian tech.

If Jennergirl's disguise was just a mask, and she wore spandex while fighting crime, I think people would connect the dots pretty quickly.