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Post by MWGallaher on Oct 31, 2018 13:12:27 GMT -5
The Phantom Stranger was something of a globetrotter under Len Wein and Jim Aparo. Among the glamorous destinations were Paris:  and Rio de Janeiro: 
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Post by MDG on Oct 31, 2018 14:10:37 GMT -5
^^^^ Aparo did so many great PS covers!
Also--Anyone know if any of those Dennis issues were designed as giveaway or gift shop items for different places?
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Post by rberman on Oct 31, 2018 15:25:04 GMT -5
DC had two big exceptions to the fake city rule which jump to mind immediately: the post-crisis Wonder Woman series by Perez was set in Boston, while Mike Grell's Green Arrow was set in Seattle. Also, Byrne’s Wonder Woman series was set in San Francisco. |
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 31, 2018 16:43:49 GMT -5
I had an edition of Dennis The Menace In Hawaii. Remember something telling us to pronounce Kauai by showing a picture of a cow and an eye. I vaguely recall Supergirl being in Chicago but only got the first couple issues of that early '80s series. Asterix traveled a lot of course (Rome, Switzerland, Britain), even 'conquered' America!  |
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Post by badwolf on Oct 31, 2018 17:29:10 GMT -5
One of the last storylines in John Byrne's Alpha Flight took place at the West Edmonton Mall.  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 31, 2018 21:15:14 GMT -5
The Nightmaster 3-issue run that began in Showcase 82 in 1969 began with the protagonist, musician Jim Rook, playing in a club in the East Village.  |
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 31, 2018 21:29:16 GMT -5
Poor Detroit! I was curious about when Aquaman restarted in the later '70s after a run in Adventure Comics and found that this issue I used to have would've been the last issue of the original run... 
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Post by rberman on Oct 31, 2018 21:50:36 GMT -5
The "no more satellite" JLA with Vibe, Vixen, and Gypsy was based in Detroit. The West Coast Avengers were in L.A., as were some of Dazzler's stories and related X-arcs like Beauty and the Beast and the Gladiators stories in New Mutants.
Micronauts found that their universe connected to ours in Cape Canaveral, which also gave them an excuse to interface with Man-Thing in the Everglades. Quite a few people traipsed down to Central Florida for crossovers circa 1980.
Alpha Flight-related stories used a wide variety of real Canadian locations from Vancouver to Calgary to Toronto, etc.
Kitty Pryde-related material often included story elements in greater Chicago. Her Mekanix series with Karma takes place at the University of Chicago, and she spends X-Men: The End running for mayor of Chicago against her collegiate rival Alice Tremaine.
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 1, 2018 8:07:19 GMT -5
Black Condor, aka Senator Thomas Wright, was based in Washington, DC.  |
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Post by Crimebuster on Nov 1, 2018 9:39:06 GMT -5
Poor Detroit! I was curious about when Aquaman restarted in the later '70s after a run in Adventure Comics and found that this issue I used to have would've been the last issue of the original run... This story had a sequel - in Sub-Mariner #72, also by writer Steve Skeates, and also the final issue of its run. |
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Post by Confessor on Nov 1, 2018 11:16:04 GMT -5
I know that this thread is really focusing on American superhero comics, but I can't not mention Tintin, who is basically the World Champion of visiting real places, when it comes to comic charcters.  Although Herge did, on occasion, invent locations (such as the fictional Eastern European nations of Syldavia and Borduria from King Ottokar's Sceptre), most of the time, he sent Tintin to real places around the world, which were painstakingly researched, so that they could be depicted as accurately as possible on the comics page. Sometimes a particular location was explicit in the book title, such as in Tintin in America or Tintin in Tibet, but more often than not, the real world locations that the boy reporter passed through were only hinted at in the title or cover art. In fact, Tintin visiting real world places is such a big feature of the stories that, in my Tintin review thread, I've taken to listing all of the locations the boy reporter and his companions visit. The other thing I wanted to mention, being a Britisher, is that Silver Age (and even early Bronze Age) Marvel had little idea of how -- and/or possibly no desire to -- accurately depict Britain. It always makes me laugh when the likes of Dr. Strange, Daredevil, the Fantastic Four or Spider-Man come a-visiting to this green and pleasant land in those old '60s and early '70s comics, because Stan Lee et al clearly thought that everyone over here either lived in a creepy castle or a charming country cottage. If it was London that was being depicted, it was invariably drawn as some foggy, victorian-era street scene, like something out of Mary Poppins or Sherlock Holmes (except with then-modern cars, of course). London did not look like that in the 1960s.  I suspect that Silver Age DC was no better at depicting Britain accurately back then. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2018 12:56:41 GMT -5
Tintin ... KING of Kings in terms of visiting places ... even the Moon!
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 1, 2018 13:09:23 GMT -5
Poor Detroit! I was curious about when Aquaman restarted in the later '70s after a run in Adventure Comics and found that this issue I used to have would've been the last issue of the original run... This story had a sequel - in Sub-Mariner #72, also by writer Steve Skeates, and also the final issue of its run. Cool. I have #70-72 and the one Marvel Spotlight still in my 'to read' stack so I'll get to find that out firsthand now. I almost mentioned Tin Tin when I wrote about Asterix but I wasn't sure as I had never gotten into following those like I did Asterix. Yoko Tsuno travels a lot besides outer space. One I have is in Scotland, one in Japan, and another in Hong Kong. I wonder if continental Europeans were influenced by older strips like Terry & The Pirates which featured a lot of travel? Also Donald Duck. I think Jiggs & Maggie must've been quite popular as well as the various Tarzan artists going by the styles that developed. |
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Post by rberman on Nov 2, 2018 8:29:24 GMT -5
The other thing I wanted to mention, being a Britisher, is that Silver Age (and even early Bronze Age) Marvel had little idea of how -- and/or possibly no desire to -- accurately depict Britain. It always makes me laugh when the likes of Dr. Strange, Daredevil, the Fantastic Four or Spider-Man come a-visiting to this green and pleasant land in those old '60s and early '70s comics, because Stan Lee et al clearly thought that everyone over here either lived in a creepy castle or a charming country cottage. If it was London that was being depicted, it was invariably drawn as some foggy, victorian-era street scene, like something out of Mary Poppins or Sherlock Holmes (except with then-modern cars, of course). London did not look like that in the 1960s. I suspect that Silver Age DC was no better at depicting Britain accurately back then. See also the “When modern Europeans use torches, they use real torches” error:   If it makes you feel any better, they don’t know what America is like outside of New York City and Los Angeles either. The film Iron Man 3 depicted my hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee as a snowy, sleepy Town with one stoplight, one tavern, and no internet. In reality Chattanooga has 300,000 inhabitants and the fastest internet in the Southeastern United States. Also, snow is uncommon (it is in a valley), and accumulation of snow is rare. After enduring mockery for their cluelessness, the film makers changed both dialogue and visuals for the DVD release so that the action occurred in fictional “Rose Hill, Tennessee” which I assume is an Appalachian hamlet outside of Knoxville. |
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Post by Confessor on Nov 2, 2018 9:47:46 GMT -5
The film Iron Man 3 depicted my hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee as a snowy, sleepy Town with one stoplight, one tavern, and no internet. In reality Chattanooga has 300,000 inhabitants and the fastest internet in the Southeastern United States. Also, snow is uncommon (it is in a valley), and accumulation of snow is rare. You've also got one hell of a train service there, I hear.  |
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