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The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is one of the largest suspension bridges in the world. Its huge towers can be seen from all the boroughs of the city. The bridge connects two boroughs of New York City - Staten Island and Brooklyn.Photo city-dark-ne
Even though Superman has superpowers, he needs an accommodation, like ordinary people do. Wheredid Clark Kent live? According to the comic book, most of the time he lived here, on Clinton street.Photo Clark Kent cosplayer.jpg by Flickr_upload_b
Due to its specific shape, Morgan's house is known as "The Corner". In the first half of the 20th century, this was the site of Morgan's bank head office. One day somebody detonated a bomb right in front of the entrance of the bank. A lot of pe
New York City is an astonishingly beautiful city. No wonder that it inspired the creation of multitudeparallel worlds. Even if Batman and Superman exist in one of the parallel universes, everybody cansurely become a bit of a superhero by helpin
Everybody in New York knows the World Trade Center, mostly because of bleak events of September 11, 2001. That day Twin Towers were destroyed in terrorist attacks. Those who watched 2016's "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" remember its begin
Everybody knew, that the Waynes were the richest family in Gotham, but for some reason, instead of going by car with a personal driver or taking a taxi they decided to walk through a dark alley, where a robber attacked them and killed Bruce's p
It's DC Comics to whom we owe the creation of the Multiverse in the 1960s. The essence of this notion is that there're many parallel universes in the same physical space, separated from each other by a unique resonant vibrational plane.Photo DC
Sometimes an actor plays a role and sometimes a role takes over. 421 Broome Street is notorious toevery Heath Ledger fan. He was found dead here soon after the shooting of 2008 The Dark Knight where he played the Joker was finished.Photo In mem
Clark Kent and Lois Lane's address after they got married is a peculiar matter. Some sources claim that their apartment was at 1938 Sullivan Street. And this apartment was a wedding gift from... Who would have guessed? From Bruce Wayne himself.
Generally, every new generation opposes the rules of the previous one. The Comic Books industry is no exception. The Silver Age with its self-censorship and 'Comics Code Authority' was replaced by theBronze Age, the age of more adult comics.Pho
Those who never saw the Empire State Building certainly must have heard about it. This skyscraper was built in New York City in the middle of the 20th century and was holding the title of the tallest building in the world for forty years.Photo
Juvenile delinquency rates increased in the 1950s in the USA after the war and the society linked thatwith comic books. At that time there were a few comic-book publishers already and stories full ofviolence and cruelty were the most popular.Ph
If you were a villain, which place would you chose for your headquarters? Certainly the one, where noone would even look for you. Who would think of looking for you in the busiest place of any city – in arailway station?Photo Image-Grand centra
The Golden Age of Comic Books began in the 1930s when Superman and two more iconic characterswere introduced – Batman and Wonder Woman, fighting criminals in their own ways.Photo Detective Comics No. 27 - The First Appearance of Batman by Jim,
The superhero world remained male for a long time. But everything changed after an article, written byWilliam Marston, a feminism theorist. In the article he was arguing that a significant drawback of comicbooks is that they aim only at the mal
You are in the central square of Manhattan – Times Square. It is also called the crossroads of the world because more than 400 000 people cross it every day. In fact, it is one of the main New York City landmarks. So what does Times Square have
The character called Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 and struck a chord with the readers right away. Because he was just an ordinary person called Bruce Wayne and didn't possess any superpowers, so fans could easily relate to it.P
Both Gotham City and Metropolis were created in New York City's image and likeness. And such animportant feature as skyscrapers just had to be reflected in the DC Universe. A perfect example could be Trump Tower in front of you.Photo Trump towe
The concept „superhero" itself appeared in the late 1930s. The first comic, featuring Superman, waspublished back then, telling a story about an alien who looked like a human and had supernaturalpowers. He used them to protect citizens from cri
It is usual that superheroes like to observe the surroundings from a high point. The Queensboro Bridgeis such a point for Batman. The Queensboro Bridge is more than a century old; its history began in themid-19th-century.Photo Queensboro Bridge
As is known, New York City became the prototype of Metropolis – a bustling city where Superman lives. And which city can do without its own park? Here you can see Central Park which is one of the biggest parks in the U.S. It is world-famous tha
The founder of DC Comics was a pretty interesting person. His name was Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson.He was an excellent rider from an early age so that neither of his relatives was surprised when he joined the U.S. Cavalry where he became one of t
The first office of the publishing house which released stories about Superman and other superhumanswas situated here, at 1700 Broadway. The publishing house was founded in the middle of 1930s andinitially bore another name – National Allied Pu
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