History WhereTheHellIsSpringfield / ComicBooks

*** [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] stories quite often depict Central City with prominent mountain ranges (and mountain caves used as supervillain hideouts) nearby, [[TheMountainsOfIllinois which would be inconsistent with a Midwestern location]].

*** One [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] story depicted Central City being near sizable ''salt flats'', of all things. Franchise/TheDCU's 2011 relaunch recalls that imagery; Central City and Keystone City (collectively known as "the Gem Cities") are shown to have "badlands", drawn with a Monument Valley look, "just outside Central and Keystone City."

*** Pre-ComicBook/{{Crisis|on Infinite Earths}}, Central City may have been in Ohio, and Keystone City may have been in the Keystone ''State'', Pennsylvania.

*** ''Superman2023'', in a storyline that sent Superman back in time, rather unexpectedly portrayed 19th century Metropolis as a western town, surrounded by desert and mesas.

** Coast City, home of ComicBook/GreenLantern Hal Jordan, has somewhat surprisingly ''always'' had an unambiguous state in the comic books. It's in California. Its location ''within'' California is pretty vague, though. ''The Atlas'' puts it in the north, about halfway between San Francisco and Eureka.

** To further complicate things, the setting of Leahtrah's era is modeled after the Middle East, while the setting of her ancestor Liska is modeled after ''Precolumbine America'', more accurately, in their world equivalent of the U.S., despite Liska an her ancestors never moved far away from that region. Liska's era seems to be set in an area named the Plains region, obviously modeled after the Great Plains, which extends from Texas, central U.S. to Canada. Considering the author, Carole Curtis, is from Arizona, and the fact there's many mountains on that aream it's very likely that region was modeled after Southern U.S., but Liska's homeland, the Highland tribe, is modeled after the Lakota Sioux people, which ancestral lands are located far north in the Dakotas, near Canada, when there's almost no deserts there.

* Writers never seem to be able to agree where exactly [[ComicBook/BlackPanther Wakanda]] is located. Yes, it's in Africa, that much is certain, but its exact position on the continent keeps changing under different writers. Even different adaptations can't agree; ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' depicts it as being an island nation somewhat adjacent to Madagascar, while the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse has it as a landlocked country [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/roblox-mu/images/5/5b/Wakanda_On_The_Map.png/revision/latest?cb=20181006124551 carved out of a chunk]] [[https://imgur.com/CRQtAG0 of northern Kenya.]]

** One ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' episode broke with the trend, though, with the characters finding the city of Atlantis, which is clearly not in the Pacific Ocean.

* Writers never seem to be able to agree where exactly [[ComicBook/BlackPanther Wakanda]] is located. Yes, it's in Africa, that much is certain, but its exact position on the continent keeps changing under different writers. Even different adaptations can't agree; ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' depicts it as being an island nation somewhat adjacent to Madagascar, while the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse has it as a landlocked country placed roughly equivalent to where Southern Uganda is in the real world.

*** It may or may not be very close to Metropolis. Some works (such as ''World’s Greatest Superheroes'') suggest that Gotham and Metropolis are practically twin cities. This often puts Gotham across the Delaware Bay from Metropolis, in New Jersey.

** Eventually, a “Where is Riverdale?” contest was held, which revealed that Riverdale is “[[AnytownAmerica all of America,]] including Canada and Mexico.”

** Later stories imply that Riverdale is close enough to New York to be a reasonable drive away, putting it somewhere on the East Coast. A few others, though, have implied that it’s in California.

** Eventually, a “Where is Riverdale?” contest was held, which revealed that Riverdale is “all of America, including Canada and Mexico.”

** Star City (aka [[Series/{{Arrow}} Starling City]]) has been based on Chicago at times, and more recently on San Francisco.

* Riverdale in ''Franchise/ArchieComics'':