Fictional populated places in New York: Gotham City, Port Charles, Batcave, Arkham Asylum, Gotham City Police Department, Wayne Enterprises

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Gotham City, Port Charles, Batcave, Arkham Asylum, Gotham City Police Department, Wayne Enterprises, Gotham Central, No Man's Land, Fabletown, Wayne Manor, Batman: Cataclysm, Blackgate Penitentiary, List of mayors of Gotham City, S.T.A.R. Labs, Gotham, Nottinghamshire, Axis Chemicals, Agloe, New York, Ilium, Bayport. Excerpt: Gotham City ( -əm) is a fictional U.S. city appearing in DC Comics, best known as the home of Batman. Batman's place of residence was first identified as Gotham City in Batman #4 (Winter 1940). Gotham city is a hybrid of the real cities New York and Chicago, with some representations favoring one over the other. Writer Bill Finger on the naming of the city and the reason for changing Batman's locale from Manhattan to a fictional city said, "Originally I was going to call Gotham City 'Civic City'. Then I tried 'Capital City', then 'Coast City'. Then I flipped through the phone book and spotted the name 'Gotham Jewelers' and said, 'That's it', Gotham City. We didn't call it New York because we didn't want anybody in any city to identify with it." "Gotham" had long been a well-known nickname for New York City even prior to Batman's 1939 introduction, which explains why "Gotham Jewelers" and many other businesses in New York City have the word "Gotham" in them. The nickname was popularized in the nineteenth century, having been first attached to New York by Washington Irving in the November 11, 1807 edition of his Salmagundi, a periodical which lampooned New York culture and politics. Irving took the name from the village of Gotham, Nottinghamshire, England, a place that, according to folklore, was inhabited by fools. The village's name derives from Old English gat 'goat' and ham 'home', literally "homestead where goats are kept", and is pronounced "goat 'em", (c.f. Chatham, -əm, a similar name whi...