He's followed an hour later by DC Comics stablemate the Green Arrow, who somewhere along the line dropped the "Green" from his name in favour of solely concentrating on the 'Arrow' part. He can't run very fast but he is fairly handy with a bow which he uses to fire green arrows at people.
They are part of a superhero line-up which includes Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, about a superhero secret service with no superheroes in it, and Gotham, a Batman show that doesn't have Batman in it. Starting at 8:30pm these two shows busy themselves taking out TV2's Sunday night criminal fraternity.
Fanboy or not, that's a lot of superhero to get invested in. You'll need the superpower of time management just to keep up with them all.
And there's more coming. Just a fraction of the shows in development right now include Supergirl, about a super girl, Agent Carter, a spin-off from cinema's Captain America, and Daredevil, the blind crime-fighting lawyer who was previously so poorly portrayed by Ben Affleck.
Agent Carter.
Work has also started on bringing Marvel's merry band of mutants The X-Men out of the cinema and into the home and Seth Rogen is busy prepping a series based on one of the best comics ever made, Preacher.
Phew! That was super exhausting. And it's not even all of the super shows on their super way, there's loads more. Superheroes are taking over and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Depending where you fall on the nerd spectrum we're either entering television's very own golden age or dovetailing into a geeky abyss from which there is no escape.
It's not just the telly either. Thanks to the massive success both critical and financial - of recent blockbusters like Guardians of the Galaxy and The Avengers around 30 superhero films are planned to hit cinema screens in the next six years. 30!
Even as a comic fan this seems a ridiculous number.
Shamelessly, many of these movies will also directly tie in with all the various series screening on the telly. Truly, it's a plan hatched by a devious media mastermind whose swift and clinical execution has been almost villainous in its scope.
A scene from Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
But even the greatest foe has a weakness and the catch-22 for superhero shows is that no matter how good they are, a large chunk of the potential audience is just never going to care. People whose eyes glaze over at the mere mention of the words "super", "hero", "powers" or any combination thereof. They're not interested and never will be. Fair enough. It's not their bag, whatevs.
But how many superheroes are too many superheroes? With such a deluge of do-goodery on the horizon I fear we'll find out soon enough. There must be a tipping point for those uninterested and a burn-out zone for those that are. We are racing towards this line at super speed.
Even now the formula's beginning to fray, as super powers become super standard and variations on a theme play out again and again and again.
But all of this is missing a greater point. With so many superheroes bumbling about and sticking their nose in, how can all the super villains ever hope to get away with anything? Maybe they should just save themselves some trouble, pack it all in and move into financial banking or politics.
That's where the real crooks are these days.
