A
New York newspaper called the Daily
Planet appears. The
Daily
Planet newspaper
in New York is not to be confused with the Metropolis paper of the
same name, which employs Clark Kent, aka Superman. Dent wrote three
stories for All
Detective Magazine
in 1934 featuring Foster Fade, “the Crime Spectacularist,” who
worked for a New York newspaper called the Planet.

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Ok just to clarify in the WNU proper, are Metropolis and Gotham City separate from NYC or they all considered one and the same?
ReplyDeleteFor the purposes of the CU, I treat them as separate, since Win's story "Happy Death Men" and the Prince Zarkon books, among others, refer to Gotham as a separate city from New York.
DeleteIt's not every day that you post about a crossover in one of the original pulps! Of course, Dent did have his character Click Rush visit the Continental Detective Agency once.
DeleteI think consensus is that Gotham and Metropolis are separate cities. Dennis Power had them as stand-ins for New York in his articles:
http://www.pjfarmer.com/secret/marvelous/marvels-index.htm
Though this is probably not something worth fighting about.
Okay since they are referred to as separate in actual stories (besides in the comics that is) I will go with the idea that they are separate cities
ReplyDeleteBut didn't newspapers back then have different branches in different cities to report on local news as well as national and international? Maybe both Daily Planets belonged to a national newspaper conglomerate that had Daily Planet branches in most major U.S. cities?
ReplyDeleteIn fact the Daily Planet was shown to have branches in other cities even overseas in various zsuperman comics as well as episodes of the George Reeves TV series.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Foster Fade worked for the New York branch of the Daily Planet?
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