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July 1, 2017


FFF Results Post #480—Places To Be, Places To See

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Towns Or Bigger Places From The Comics That Don't Exist At All In The Real World -- Not A Different Version Of A Place, But An Actual Different Place."

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BK Munn

1. Duckburg
2. Supertown
3. Smallville
4. The Habitat
5. Limbo Town (Klarion the Witch Boy)

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Mário Filipe

1. Palomar, Love and Rockets
2. Champignac, Spirou et Fantasio
3. Central City, The Spirit
4. Urbicande, La fièvre d'Urbicande
5. Jadencourt, La ville qui n'existait pas

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Nazilia, Thimble Theatre.
2. Metropolis, Superman-related comics.
3. Hicksville, Hicksville.
4. The Savage Land, Ka-Zar comics.
5. The City-State Of Iest, Cerebus.

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Katherine Collins

* The Kingdom of Myopia - King Aroo
* Lost Valley of Pal-Ul-Don - Tarzan
* Duckburg - Barks's Donald Duck
* Coconino County - Krazy Kat
* Oz - the Oz books

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Katherine Collins Part Two

* The Misty Isles - Prince Valiant
* Slumberland - Little Nemo
* Toonerville - Toonerville Trolley
* Dingburg - Zippy the Pinhead
* Riverdale - Archie

that's right, Katherine gets two

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Sean Rogers

1. Daltokyo, Jimbo
2. Moominvalley, Moomin
3. Slumberland, Little Nemo in Slumberland
4. Dominion, Clyde Fans
5. The Unifactor, Frank

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Stergios Botzakis

1. Duckburg, Donald Duck/Uncle Scrooge-related comics
2. Cynosure, Grimjack
3. Asgard, “Tales of Asgard”
4. Ylum, Nexus
5. Palomar, Love and Rockets

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Michael Dooley

1. unnamed city, Julius Corentin Acquefacques, prisonnier des reves
2. The Land of the Lost, Brick Bradford
3. Bangalla, The Phantom
4. Zahir, Valerian: World Without Stars
5. Hell, Hellboy

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Mike Pfefferkorn

1. Argo City, home of Supergirl
2. Slaughter Swamp, haunt of Solomon Grundy
3. Skartaris, home of the Warlord
4. Gorilla City, home of Gorilla Grodd
5. Sorrow's End, home of the Sun-Folk (Elfquest)

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Dave Knott

* Urbicand - Fever In Urbicand (Francois Schuiten is the master of this FFF topic)
* The Blue Area Of The Moon - Fantastic Four
* Duckburg - Donald Duck comics
* The Hole - Dorohedoro
* Genosha - X-Men comics

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Steve Harrick

1. Dogpatch, Li'l Abner
2. Crepe City, Henchgirl
3. Oa-Green Lantern-related comics
4. Vulture City, Vulture City Stories
5. Bangalla, The Phantom

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Andy Mansell

1. Opal City (Starman)
2. Myopia (King Aroo)
3. Destiny's Garden of Forking Ways (Sandman)
4. Opak-Re (Planetary)
5. The Blazing World (LoEG)

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Dan Morris

1. Duckberg, Carl Barks' Duck comics
2. Hicksville, Hicksville
3. Monster Island, various Fantastic Four comics
4. Palomar, Love and Rockets
5. Gotham City, Batman

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Marty Yohn

1. Lovecraft, Massachusetts - Locke & Key
2. Nanda Parbat - Deadman comics
3. Dogpatch, USA - Lil' Abner
4. Keystone City - The Flash
5. Opal City - Starman comics

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Oliver Ristau

1. Soft City, from the eponymous comic by Pushwagner
2. Radiant City, Mister X comics
3. The jungle of Palombia, Spirou and Fantasio/Marsupilami comics
4. The Smurf Village, Smurf comics
5. The Cursed Earth, Judge Dredd comics

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Sean Kleefeld

1. Wakanda, Black Panther/Fantastic Four
2. Attilan, Inhumans/Fantastic Four
3. Slumberland, Little Nemo
4. Latveria, Dr. Doom/Fantastic Four
5. That nameless surreal desert, Krazy Kat

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Marc Arsenault

1. Radiant City, Mister X
2. Jadencourt, The Town That Didn't Exist
3. Celesteville, Babar The King
4. The subatomic world of K'ai, The Incredible Hulk
5. Skartaris, The Warlord

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Chris Duffy

1. Myopia -- from King Aroo comics by Jack Kent
2. Wakanda -- from Marvel comics, created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee
3. Neopolis -- from Top Ten comics series, created by Zander Cannon and Alan Moore.
4. Gorilla City -- from DC comics, created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino
5. Goonia -- from Squirrel Cage comic strip by Gene Ahern

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Buzz Dixon

1. The Bottle City of Kandor
2. Old Town, Sin City
3. The nameless island where The War That Time Forgot was fought
4. Latveria
5. Barrelhaven, Bone

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Matt Silvie

1. Flowertown USA, Doofus
2. The Unifactor, Frank
3. Gooseneck Hollow, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
4. Echo Fjord, Eartha
5. The Hive, Last Look

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Tim Hayes

1. New Eden, Kane
2. Pacific City, Nocturnals
3. Paradise Island, Wonder Woman
4. Opal City, Starman
5. The Cursed Earth, Judge Dredd

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John Parkin

1. Latveria (Fantastic Four and other Marvel Comics)
2. Skartaris (DC's Warlord)
3. Astro City (Astro City)
4. Mega-City One (Judge Dredd)
5. Basin City, aka Sin City (Sin City)

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Mark Brodersen

* Cynosure, Grimjack
* Astro City, Astro City
* Mega-City One, Judge Dredd
* Riverdale, Archie Comics
* Deadside, Shadowman

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thanks to Mário Filipe for sending multiple images

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