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Gotham City
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Gotham City
Gotham City
( ) or
Gotham
is a fictional
American
city appearing in
American comic books
published by
DC Comics
, best known as the home of
Batman
. Batman's place of residence was first identified as Gotham City in
Batman
#4 (Winter 1940).
New York Times
journalist
William Safire
described Gotham City as "
New York
below
14th Street
, from
SoHo
to
Greenwich Village
, the
Bowery
,
Little Italy
,
Chinatown
, and the sinister areas around the base of the
Manhattan
and
Brooklyn Bridges
." Batman artist
Neal Adams
sees the 1940s mobster history of
Chicago
as the basis for Gotham, while writer/artist
Frank Miller
has stated that
Metropolis
is New York in the daytime and Gotham City is New York at night.
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