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 his satirical work …
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 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 ...
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 - 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.
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 ...
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.
Why does the League of Shadows target Gotham?
Gotham, specifically the central town was the burial ground of an evil Warlock in ancient times, they say his evil seeped through the earth reaching ground of Gotham city to poison it with the warlock's evil essence, Warlock came into a new being called Doctor Gotham
How does Bruce travel from The Pit to Gotham City?
2012年7月23日 · After Bruce escapes The Pit in The Dark Knight Rises he travels to Gotham City, however The Pit is located in South Africa and Gotham City is located half-way across the world in North America. At this point in the story Bruce is completely broke, and he has no access to any of his remaining resources anyways, so I don't see how he could ...
Why doesn't Gotham City execute their villains?
2018年1月26日 · Gotham city may be in New York or New Jersey which abolished the death penalty in 2004 and 2007 - last execution in 1963 in both. – M. A. Golding Commented Jan 25, 2018 at 22:44