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 …

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 ...

2014年10月30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.

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 …

2017年10月27日 · Opinions may have differed for different writers, but when Gotham City was created by Bob Kane and Milton Finger, they clearly meant it to be New York City. "Gotham" (no "City") was a long-standing moniker for NYC.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.