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Author: Hodor

Feb 11th 2013 at 10:25:27 AM

* ''Literature/RedHarvest'' is set in one of these officially known as Personville, but popularly called "Poisonville".  The town is essentially the fiefdom of industrialist Elihu Willsson, "Czar of Poisonville", and Willsson established his control by hiring various gangs of thugs to help him "settle" a labor dispute and enforce that settlement.  At the time the story starts, this has started to backfire on Willsson, as the gangs proceeded to fight for power among themselves and bring anarchy to the town.

* There was a series of GreenArrow stories where he worked alongside GreenLantern that played off of their divergent view of law and justice, and one story had them go to a mining town in the Rocky Mountains called [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Desolation]], which was an example of the really bad type of these.  As discussed [[http://lawandthemultiverse.com/2013/01/28/green-arrow-77/ here]], the whole story is not very realistic, particularly in regard to having such a town still existing in the 1970s.