Star City is a fictional city that appears in stories published by DC Comics, best known as the traditional home of the superheroes known by, or affiliated with, the shared alias of the Green Arrow. Beyond that, it is also known to other characters of the DC Universe as both a port city and a haven for artists in many of the media, from print to audio/visual to music. FicTioNaL is a Gaming Legend. ... DC Comics is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. ... Batman and Superman, two of the most recognizable and iconic superheroes. ... Green Arrow is a fictional character, a DC Comics superhero. ... Cover to the History of the DC Universe trade paperback. ...

Established history in the comics

According to several published accounts, Star City was incorporated as a city under its current name over 200 years ago.

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The first costumed vigilante to serve as mayor was Thomas "Steelclaw" Bolt, who adopted an undercover persona as a costumed criminal as part of his efforts to bring local crime under control. He died in office of that attempt.

During the years that Green Arrow spent outside of Star City, at least one other costumed crime-fighter operated there: Chase Lawler, one of the several known Manhunters. Secret Origins #22 outlined the history of the Manhunters, as to tie in with Millennium. ...

The final Green Arrow storyline before One Year Later featured Doctor Light and Merlyn detonating explosives, leaving nearly a third of Star City in shambles in what becomes known as the "Amsterdam Avenue Disaster". Merlyn is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. ...

In the One Year Later storyline, Green Arrow becomes the mayor of Star City. 52 is the title of a comic book limited series published by DC Comics, which debuted on May 10, 2006, one week after the conclusion of the seven-issue Infinite Crisis. ...

Locations through the decades

Star City's location, like those of Metropolis, Gotham City, and other cities in the DC Universe, was uncertain for many years, with varying depictions over the decades, including the Great Lakes in the 1960's and Massachusetts Bay from the 1970's until the late 1980's. In one 1970s reference, it was stated that Star City was in Connecticut. Currently, northern California has been settled upon as its location, specifically in the coastal regions north of San Francisco Bay. For other usages of Metropolis, see Metropolis. ... The Gotham skyline with the Bat-signal. ... Cover to the History of the DC Universe trade paperback. ... The Great Lakes from space The Great Lakes are a group of five large lakes in North America on or near the Canada-United States border. ... Massachusetts Bay is one of the large bays of the Atlantic Ocean that form the distinctive shape of the coastline of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. ...

At least one map has been published in 1985 and was occasionally modified by Mayfair Games during the years that the company held the license for role-playing game adaptation rights for the DC Comics universe, detailing Star City's geographical layout. Though the Atlas placed Star City on California's Pacific Coast, north of San Francisco, the layout used for the city map resembled the geography of metropolitan Chicago, but reversed, so that it would be on the Michigan side of Lake Michigan: So the neighborhood of "East Gary" was approximately where the real Gary, Indiana, is, but it was on the Pacific Ocean instead of Lake Michigan. Mayfair Games is a publisher of board and roleplaying games in the United States and United Kingdom. ... Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, City of the Big Shoulders, The 312, The City that Works Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Incorporated March 4, 1837  - Mayor... This article is about the city in Indiana, for other uses of Gary, see Gary (disambiguation). ...

Established city characteristics

Landmarks

Among the more notable landmarks established by various Green Arrow creative teams include the following:

Star Bridge

This suspension bridge is one of city's primary visual landmarks, known for a giant star sculpture atop each tower in the span of the bridge, connecting Star City's various regions.

The Grell Museum

Named after Mike Grell, who wrote and drew a definitive era of Green Arrow in the 1980s

Papp Stadium

Named after George Papp, one of Green Arrow's original co-creators from the 1940s

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Neighborhoods

Known neighborhoods include:

The "Triangle"

Long fought over by the city's various organized crime factions until the intervention of the freelance criminal Deadshot as depicted in his second mini-series.

Lamb Valley

Detailed in the pages of the Green Arrow collected edition "Straight Shooter."

The South End

Introduced in Green Arrow v.3 # 60, in the wake of the events of Infinite Crisis and 52.

The Glades

Named in Green Arrow v.3 # 61. One of the districts directly abutting the Sound End.

Orchid Bay

The downtown section, and site of City Hall. Named in Green Arrow v.3 # 63.

Adams Heights

Named in Green Arrow v.3 # 67. Possibly named in honour of artist Neal Adams, long associated with Green Arrow.

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Statistics

Star City's population was given in Green Arrow (City Walls Pt.3) as being 5 million.

Sports Teams

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Star City Thunder: Basketball, they play in Tinder-Smith Garden. Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005. ...

Other Media

Star City was briefly mentioned by Lex Luthor in the Smallville sixth season episode "Reunion". In "Freak", Tobias is sent to Star City because Oliver Queen said he would be given a cornea transplant. A computer generated panorama of Star City can also be seen in the first episode in the online Smallville spinoff short "The Oliver Queen Chronicles" Smallville is an American television series that follows the adventures of a young Clark Kent (Tom Welling), as a teenager living in Smallville, Kansas, during the years before he becomes Superman. ...