This is “Working for a While,” a feature that spotlights the lesser-known jobs that our favorite superheroes have had over the years (mostly in their secret identities, but sometimes I’ll feature examples of jobs superheroes have had in their costumed identities, as well). Today, we look at when Superman had to find two new jobs after his Clark Kent gig was seemingly ruined. In the world of superhero comic books, there are few jobs quite as famous as Superman’s job at the Daily Planet in his Clark Kent secret identity. When Superman briefly revealed his secret identity to the world during Brian Michael Bendis’ Superman run, Clark had to give that job up. Interestingly enough, that was precisely the plot of a 1965 issue of Superman, Superman #182 to be precise, in a story by Superman’s co-creator, Jerry Siegel, with art by Curt Swan and George Klein (this was a few years before Klein left DC for Marvel after a distinguished run inking Swan at DC).First, Superman decides to become William Digby, an English butler, complete with a mustache (and now no longer having to worry about any pesky eyeglasses), but, of course, the first job that Digby goes to try to get hired is, of course, a famous gangster who has gotten plastic surgery, and is now pretending to be a high society guy…
This is “Working for a While,” a feature that spotlights the lesser-known jobs that our favorite superheroes have had over the years (mostly in their secret identities, but sometimes I’ll feature examples of jobs superheroes have had in their costumed identities, as well). Today, we look at when Superman had to find two new jobs after his Clark Kent gig was seemingly ruined.
In the world of superhero comic books, there are few jobs quite as famous as Superman’s job at the Daily Planet in his Clark Kent secret identity. When Superman briefly revealed his secret identity to the world during Brian Michael Bendis’ Superman run, Clark had to give that job up. Interestingly enough, that was precisely the plot of a 1965 issue of Superman, Superman #182 to be precise, in a story by Superman’s co-creator, Jerry Siegel, with art by Curt Swan and George Klein (this was a few years before Klein left DC for Marvel after a distinguished run inking Swan at DC).
First, Superman decides to become William Digby, an English butler, complete with a mustache (and now no longer having to worry about any pesky eyeglasses), but, of course, the first job that Digby goes to try to get hired is, of course, a famous gangster who has gotten plastic surgery, and is now pretending to be a high society guy…
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