World Trade Center in popular culture
The original World Trade Center, which featured the landmark Twin Towers (1 WTC and 2 WTC), was a building complex in the Financial District in Lower Manhattan, New York City. 1 and 2 World Trade Center – the North and South Tower – stood at 417 meters and 415 meters (1,368 feet and 1,362 feet) with 110-stories respectively, becoming the tallest buildings in the world from 1971 to 1973. The North Tower, with its antenna included, was the tallest building in the world by pinnacle height until the towers were destroyed in the September 11  attacks in 2001. An iconic feature of the New York City skyline for nearly three decades, the World Trade Center has been featured in cartoons, comic books, computer games, video games, television, films, photographs, artwork, and music videos. Literature. Books. In Richard Martin Stern's novel "The Tower" (1973), a breeches buoy line shot from a helicopter is used to link the World Trade Center North Tower and the fictional World Tower Building. Several people are rescued from an inferno in the World Tower Building by this method. The World Trade Center's Twin Towers appear on the cover of  Wilt Chamberlain's 1991 reissue of his book "A View From Above". Similarly, The World Trade Center can be seen on the cover of Anne Gutman and Georg Hallensleben's children's book "Lisa in New York (The Misadventures of Gaspard and Lisa)", which was published in 2002, a year after the building complex was destroyed. and in "Godzilla: Monster Apocalypse", the prequel novel of "" anime film, the giant mantis Kamacuras appeared in New York City in May 1999, and proceeded to destroy the World Trade Center and devastate much of the city, leaving 2.5 million casualties. The Towers also  appeared on the paperback cover of "Big City, Bright Lights", Jay McInerney's iconic novel of 1980s New York. The book was published in September 1984 as the first original title from the newly created Vintage Contemporaries imprint. Philippe Petit's tightrope walk in 1974 between the two towers is fictionalized in Colum McCann's novel of 1970s New York, "Let the Great World Spin". The fall of the towers forms part of the plot of Ken Kalfus' novel "A Disorder Peculiar to the Country", and the attack also appears on its paperback cover. Comic books and graphic novels. Most  of the Marvel Comics' heroes reside in New York City, so views of the towers were not uncommon. The World Trade Center complex was featured in numerous other comics as well. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center have also been depicted in several online web comics: