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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
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Subject: re: placenames
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 06:15:36 EST
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As far as where the various DC fictional cities go, I think that everyone has
had different ideas on the subject. Unfortunately, that "everyone" has also
included the various writers at DC, and there has been no consistency about
it. Mike Ciaraldi quoted one comic which implied that Metropolis was a twin
city with New York and Gotham was a twin with Boston. I recall another (don't
remember what, though) that said that New York/Gotham/Metropolis were triplet
cities around the same bay, much like San Francisco/Berkeley/Oakland. There
was also a map of the US printed in a comic that showed the various fictional
cities, but I don't remember what corresponded to what. There was a time
when DC comics never used *any* real US cities (except Washington, of course),
so adding those complicated things. Anyways, these have always been *my* ideas
of the correspondence of fictional and real cities:

Metropolis		New York
Gotham City		New York
Central City		Chicago
Midway City		St. Louis
Star City		Los Angeles
Ivy Town		Boston

I can't think of any other of the fictional DC cities (except Smallville and
Midvale, both of which I never even thought of trying to fit someplace).

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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