So, I got a question.

Where do super-heroes get all their intelligence from?

For example, the Fantastic Four have their headquarters in a big building in some city. It's distinctively styled, and kinda obvious. How do they manage to prevent some evil villain from, you know, leveling that city block? Or flying a plane into it?

With some exceptions, they can't possibly do all their legwork themselves, especially given the world-spanning escapades many supers enjoy. It seems to me that they super-heroes must employ a vast network of informers, agents, handlers, intelligence analysts (although that last set could be replaced by a self-aware megacomputer knocked together in Reed Richards' spare time, I suppose), and so forth. Not being a big comic book person, how do they get wind of the latest big plot? Or do they generally find out after the villain blows up/robs/mutates/enslaves some large portion of the super-heroes' adoring public?