dc - Where is Gotham City located? - Science Fiction & Fantasy …
2013年5月13日 · From the Batman Wiki. Before Detective Comics #48, Batman's adventures were said to happen in New York City. Gotham is known to be architecturally modeled after New York City, but with exaggerated elements of the styles and derives its name from a sobriquet for that real world city, first popularized by the author Washington Irving in …
Do the cities in the DC Universe correspond to real world cities?
2017年6月6日 · Before Detective Comics #48, Batman's adventures were said to happen in New York City. Gotham is known to be architecturally modeled after New York City, but with exaggerated elements of the styles and derives its name from a sobriquet for that real world city, first popularized by the author Washington Irving in his satirical work Salmagundi ...
dc - What is Gotham City a metaphor for? - Science Fiction
2017年10月27日 · It seems pretty clear to me that DC's Gotham City is not supposed to represent a real place. It's far too grim to be somewhere that anyone would live, or businesses would open up in. I know Grant Morrison actually tried to make Gotham more realistic , but the current Tom King run solidifies for me that there's no way Gotham is supposed to be ...
Why was Gotham City changed from a mostly fictional city to New …
In Batman Begins, Gotham City has a futuristic/fictional and run down look: think of Oldtown, the trains built by the Wayne Corporation etc. In The Dark Knight Rises, Gotham City looks like plain old real world New York City — we don't see the trains anymore. Oldtown is …
dc - Does it always rain in Gotham? - Science Fiction & Fantasy …
2017年3月12日 · The name "Gotham City" was first used in Detective Comics #48. (1941) Gotham would start to get more character in the 1970's as Batman's writers and editors began to alter Batman from his more campy appearances in the 60s. In Detective #327 we start seeing more of Batman at night and both Gotham and the Batman take on a much darker tone.
dc - What makes Gotham work as a major city? - Science Fiction ...
2016年12月28日 · Gotham city is described since the 70's as a crime-ridden city. Corruption is rampant, thugs walk free and cops do look out for the mafia. And it rains all the time , and it's common to quite every version of Gotham since Dennis O'Neil (who wrote "Batman's Gotham City is akin to 'Manhattan below Fourteenth Street at eleven minutes past midnight ...
dc - Why is Batman restricted to Gotham city? - Science Fiction ...
2017年3月12日 · Especially for Batman Gotham and its out of control crime has always played a major role in setting the mood of his stories, from the corrpupt organized crime controlling the city, to the much more "small-scale" and psychologically characterized villains fitting to a more localized setting.
comics - Why Does DC Use Fictional City Names? - Science Fiction ...
2012年4月4日 · Then I tried 'Capital City', then 'Coast City'. Then I flipped through the New York City phone book and spotted the name 'Gotham Jewelers' and said, 'That's it,' Gotham City. We didn't call it New York because we wanted anybody in any city to identify with it. Source: Steranko, Jim (1970). The Steranko History of Comics.
dc - Are Gotham and Metropolis neighbours? - Science Fiction
2015年8月22日 · As far as I know, Gotham has always intended to be a stand-in for New York City. Any time a location for Gotham has been mentioned, it's been close to New York City. This usually means either somewhere else in New York State (e.g. one of the islands), or else somewhere nearby in New Jersey. Metropolis, on the other hand, is a bit of a moving ...
Is there a difference between Superman’s Gotham City and …
Superman doesn't live in Gotham City. Superman lives in Metropolis. It seems to be relatively near Gotham geographically (both appear to be in something like the New England area), but they're definitely different cities.