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Gotham City ( ) or Gotham is a fictional American city appearing in American comic books published by 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). ''New York Times'' journalist William Safire described Gotham City as "New York below 14th Street, from SoHo to Greenwich Village, the Bowery, Little Italy, Chinatown, and the sinister areas around the base of the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges."〔Safire, William (July 30, 1995). ("ON LANGUAGE; Jersey's Vanishing 'New'" ). The New York Times.〕 Batman artist Neal Adams sees the 1940s mobster history of Chicago as the basis for Gotham,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dark Knight's kind of town: Gotham City )〕 while writer/artist Frank Miller has stated that Metropolis is New York in the daytime and Gotham City is New York at night. Locations used as inspiration or filming locations for the urban portion of Gotham City in the live-action ''Batman'' films have included Hong Kong,〔http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2012/jul/04/top-10-films-hong-kong〕 Pittsburgh, and New York City. English country house locations in Nottinghamshire, Hertfordshire, and Buckinghamshire, as well as Stevenson Taylor Hall in New York, have been used to depict the less urban setting of Wayne Manor in live action films. ==Origin of name== Writer Bill Finger, on the naming of the city and the reason for changing Batman's locale from New York City 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 New York City phone book and spotted the name 'Gotham Jewelers' and said, 'That's it,' Gotham City. We didn't call it New York because we wanted 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 became popular in the nineteenth century; Washington Irving had first attached it to New York in the November 11, 1807 edition of his ''Salmagundi'',〔Burrows, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace. ''Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898''. (Oxford University Press, 1999), 417.〕 a periodical which lampooned New York culture and politics. Irving took the name from the village of Gotham, Nottinghamshire, England, a place inhabited, according to folklore, by fools. The village's name derives from Old English ''gāt'' 'goat' and ''hām'' 'home', literally "homestead where goats are kept", and is pronounced "goat 'em", (cf. ''Chatham'', , a similar name where the letters ''th'' represent a "t" sound followed by a silent "h" rather than a "th" sound). The Joker references this etymology in ''Detective Comics'' #880, in which he tells Batman that the word means "a safe place for goats". In contrast, "Gotham" as used for New York has a different pronunciation by analogy to other words spelled with "th" and is pronounced as ,〔 〕 like the word ''Goth''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gotham City」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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