5 Silly Times Superman And Batman Swapped Identities

3. Superman Pretends To Be Batman And Batman's Ghost

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World's Finest Comics #139

Kathy Kane suspects that Bruce Wayne might secretly be Batman. She repeatedly, openly accuses him of this. Not because she’s generally observant, fights alongside Batman as Batwoman or because it’s super obvious… she suspects Batman’s secret identity because of her “woman’s intuition.”

Bruce decides to up his secret identity game and asks Superman to take his place as Batman. Bruce happily goes to a charity even with Kathy that involves “Batman” and Robin performing acrobatics. Superman dressed as Batman leaves the event early to go fight some crime with Robin. Lucky, he does, because there is a huge explosion that would have killed the real dark knight.

In a macabre and bizarrely cruel reveal we find out that no one told Robin that the Batman he’d been hanging with really was Superman in disguise. So, the poor kid cries hysterically thinking Batman is dead. Things get even weirder when Superman decides to continue fighting crime dressed as Batman’s ghost.

Fake Superman, the ghost of Batman, and the rest of the Bat family all team up. The general public doesn't seem to notice that Superman can now only fly when he’s clutching at Batman’s ghost, but soon enough all is righted. Batman and Superman go back to their normal costumed lives, and Kathy continues to be gaslit by Batman about his secret identity even though he knows hers.

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