Super Wealthy Superheroes! Richie Rich aint got nuthin’ on them!

As a kid, I’ve always been fascinated with how superheroes get their funding. Riding out into the night doens’t exactly put food on the table, much less allow one to buy that super fast car you drive or supply those goddamn boomerangs that don’t seem to run out. He probably gets those from China.

Then I found out that there were millionaire superheroes. And as my interest for comics grew, I found out that there were a whole lot of them, each character made use of his/her earthly wealth differently, more often than not employing the money to that whole superheroing thing. Others just had it, and didn’t really do shit with it.

Think Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark are the only moguls? Think again.

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