All articles by Mark Clapham
Mark Clapham
On superheroes and the American city
Why do superheroes feel so at home in cities? Writers and artists were telling stories about the skylines outside their windows.
Where are Gotham City and Metropolis – and what do they have to do with New York?
If Gotham and Metropolis are both aspects of New York, then is there a New York in DC Comics? And where are all these made-up New Yorks anyway?
