[ The Shade simply laughed. ] Far too many, my boy. I was around when they began to make their faces known in my world, after all. [ There wasn't a mental list, but for a moment, he did think on his experience with superheroes. Flash the first and second, Ted and Jack Knight, even Mikaal Tomas. Others, of course. He was known by others, although... ]

I hardly make it a habit of inviting them over for tea, you understand. They and I have certain moral differences. The same with vigilantes, but I know fewer of them. They're always so grim. [ He says it before he takes a surreptitious sip of his own drink. ]