Move over Metropolis and Gotham! Now for a fictional comics city no one ever talks about! Everytown, U.S.A.!
The "map" appeared in Uncle Sam Quarterly #1 (1941) and is apparently meant to be Sam's stomping ground, though he really traveled all around the country and abroad. I think my favorite part of Everytown is its industrial sector...
...a factory next to a river, with a farm across the way. I know this kind of pollution was just known as "Industry" in the 40s, but it feels contemporary to me somehow.
Everytown is timeless, really. It's everywhen.
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With Uncle Sam having his own pocket dimension in modern accounts, this becomes a more fascinating interpretation.
Is there a connection between that dimension and the America Shade the Changing Man visited in the Mature Readers series?
Another thought worthy of exploration.
I had this very same idea for a RPG campaign on which I am working. The characters will be playing legacy characters from the golden, silver and modern age in DC. One of the characters wanted to play a character that has the same 50s all-American attitude all the way through (although he is playing three different characters). When I learned of Everytown, I thought that it could be a community that is located in the Heartland and therefore the attitudes there are the same as they were in the 50s.
That's pretty cool!
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