One of Stan Lee's many innovations as Marvel Comics editor-in-chief was setting the publisher's superhero stories in the real-world location of New York City. That greater sense of reality and ...

Batman is comics’ most popular character, but would he be without the urban hellscape of Gotham City? Gotham City has taken root in the minds of fans for decades, a city of impossible scale filled ...

Tim Burton's Batman (1989) is a landmark film that redefined the superhero genre. The movie starred Michael Keaton as the DC Comics Caped Crusader and Jack Nicholson as the Joker. It gave comic book ...