Gotham City

**Gotham City**, or simply **Gotham**, is an dark city rife with corruption and crime, the home of its iconic protector Batman.

## Points of Interest

### Businesses

* Ace Chemical Processing Plant
* Monarch Theater
* S.T.A.R. Labs
* Wayne Enterprises
	+ Wayne Foundation

### Other locales

* Arkham Asylum
* Batcave
* Hall of Justice
* Justice Society Headquarters
* Toxic Acres
* Wayne Manor
* Wayne Tower

## Residents

### Heroes

* Batgirl (Barbara Gordon)
* Batman (Bruce Wayne)
* Cassandra Cain
* Green Lantern (Alan Scott)
* Huntress (Helena Bertinelli)
* Robin/Nightwing (Dick Grayson)
* Robin/Red Hood (Jason Todd)
* Robin/Red Robin (Tim Drake)
* Robin (Damian Wayne)
* Spoiler (Stephanie Brown)
* Batwing (Luke Fox)
* The Signal (Duke Thomas)
* Whistle (Willow Zimmerman)

### Villains

* Black Mask
* Calendar Man
* Catwoman
* Deadshot
* Firefly
* Harley Quinn
* Joker
* Killer Croc
* Killer Moth
* Polka Dot Man

### Others

* Alfred Pennyworth
* James Gordon
* Martha Wayne
* Thomas Wayne
* Wayne Family

## Notes

* In the early Batman stories, his home base was established as New York City. Despite the information given in *Batman* #252, the name "Gotham City" was first used in *Batman* #4.
* "Gotham" is one of the nicknames of New York City, and the city serves as an analogue to it—Dennis O'Neil has said that, figuratively, "Batman's Gotham City is Manhattan below Fourteenth Street at eleven minutes past midnight on the coldest night in November. Metropolis is Manhattan between Fourteenth and One Hundred and Tenth Streets on the brightest, sunniest July day of the year." Neal Adams, in contrast has long believed that Chicago, with its proliferation of mobsters in the 1940s, was the basis for Gotham, adding that the city, in contrast to New York, is full of alleys, "where Batman fights all the bad guys."

## Trivia

* In the Golden and Silver Age Gotham Cities, the rooftops were littered with bizarre gigantic props that were often used as staging places by villains, but by the 1970s they had all but been removed. In *Arkham Asylum: Living Hell* #3, it's revealed that Humpty Dumpty is responsible for this, as he once accidentally set off a chain reaction causing all of the props to be knocked down off of their rooftops, like a chain of dominoes. This caused the Senate to actually place a ban against giant unnecessary props, referred to as the "Sprang" Act.
* In the parallel universe of Earth-S, Gotham City is the home base of Mister Scarlet.

## See Also

* Appearances of Gotham City
* Location Gallery: Gotham City
* Catalogued images related to Gotham City

1. ↑ *Shadowpact* #5
2. ↑ Jump up to:2.0 2.1 *Batman: The Cult* #1
3. ↑ *Daily Planet Guide to Gotham City*
4. ↑ *Detective Comics* #1063
5. ↑ *Detective Comics 2022 Annual* #1
6. ↑ *Swamp Thing* (Volume 2) #86
7. ↑ *Batman: Gates of Gotham* #2
8. ↑ *Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight* #27
9. ↑ *Batman Secret Files and Origins* #1
10. ↑ *Batman* #471
11. ↑ *Batgirl* (Volume 3) #17
12. ↑ *Batman* #310
13. ↑ *Batman* #322
14. ↑ *Nightwing* (Volume 2) #19
15. ↑ *Detective Comics* #725
16. ↑ *Robin* (Volume 2) #43
17. ↑ *Robin* (Volume 2) #23
18. ↑ *Robin* (Volume 2) #107
19. ↑ The school that Zan and Jayna attended.
20. ↑ *Detective Comics* #561
21. ↑ *Detective Comics* #563
22. ↑ *Batman* #395
23. ↑ *Detective Comics* #609
24. ↑ *Batman and Robin* #25
25. ↑ *Robin* (Volume 2) #111
26. ↑ *Batman* #660
27. ↑ Jump up to:27.0 27.1 *Batman* #661
28. ↑ *Detective Comics* #616
29. ↑ *Detective Comics* #42
30. ↑ *Batman* #87
31. ↑ *Batman: Gotham City Secret Files and Origins* #1
32. ↑ *Robin* (Volume 2) #102
33. ↑ *Batgirl* (Volume 3) #1
34. ↑ *Batgirl* (Volume 3) #4
35. ↑ *Batgirl* (Volume 3) #5
36. ↑ *Batgirl* (Volume 3) #8
37. ↑ *Batgirl* (Volume 3) #21
38. ↑ *Batman: Gotham Knights* #23
39. ↑ *Robin* (Volume 2) #170
40. ↑ Atlas of the DC Universe
41. ↑ *Marvel and DC Present* #1
42. ↑ *Detective Comics* #392
43. ↑ *Batman: Streets of Gotham* #1
44. ↑ *Batman: Streets of Gotham* #2
45. ↑ *Gotham Central* #24
46. ↑ *Detective Comics* #679
47. ↑ O'Neil, Dennis. Afterword. *Batman: Knightfall, A Novel*. New York: Bantam Books, 1994. 344.
48. ↑ Dark Knight's kind of town: Gotham City. MSNBC/Associated Press (2008-07-20).
49. ↑ *Wow Comics* #1