Whats the Statue of Liberty doing in Gotham city in “Off Balance”?
• The DCU as a whole doesn’t really have a New York City, so maybe the statue is a Gotham landmark in this continuity. • Isn’t Metropolis meant to be the New York analogue? As for the presence of the statue, perhaps it’s the doing of some sort of space-time warping supervillain or something. • DCU logic often says that both Gotham and Metropolis are NYC, albeit below and above 125th Street, respectively. A one-time Atlas of the DCU placed Metropolis in NJ, with Gotham in Delaware. Take That! Waynes World. • Actually, it’s Metropolis in Delaware, and Gotham in New Jersey. • New York exists in the DCU and several heroes have been based there at some point, from Kyle Rayner to Wally West. It’s just not as crowded as its Marvel counterpart. • I always thought Metropolis was New York during the day and Gotham was New York at night. • Frank Miller once said something similar. Batman writer and editor Dennis O’Neil once said, “Batman’s Gotham City is Manhattan below Fourteenth Street at eleve
