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Post by dans on Jan 22, 2023 13:58:56 GMT
here's what I did:
Google: 'where did Lois Lane grow up' and got this answer:
Lois is the daughter of Ella and Sam Lane, in earlier comics, her parents were farmers in a town called Pittsdale. The modern comics depicts Lois as a former Army brat, born at Ramstein Air Base
then google: 'where is Pittsdale lois lane dc comics' and to this answer:
Iowa Located 120 miles north of Des Moines and just north west of Mason City, Pittsdale is a small farming community in Iowa. Though not much in an of itself, it has an Air Force base nearby. Pittsdale is the home town of Lois Lane and the Lane Family of Earth-One.
a little more research. Pittsdale first appears in Superboy #90 and it "isn't far" from Smallville (per Lana), but she doesn't name the state. I can't find the first time they say Pittsdale is in Iowa. However - Iowa is closer to Kansas than I remembered, so it doesn't seem so strange that Lois and Lana might attend the same summer camp. My dad took me and my brother to a summer camp a long way from our home, because it was the camp he attended as a kid. Heck, it's possible that the grandmothers of Lois and Lana met at the same summer camp, 50 years earlier...
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Post by dave on Jan 22, 2023 15:23:55 GMT
As a kid I would spend over a month in the summer with my aunt and uncle in another state.
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Post by DocQuantum on Jan 22, 2023 18:57:10 GMT
Yeah, that means the Earth-1 Pittsdale could be anywhere in the East Coast states, but not Iowa.
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Post by dans on Jan 22, 2023 19:29:18 GMT
this page located Pittsdale in Iowa. There is a reference that says the location is given in a story - I couldn't find that story - but the article is definitive about it being in Iowa dc.fandom.com/wiki/PittsdaleAgain it doesn't matter really, the problem was that I didn't remember my geography well - I was thinking that Iowa was much farther away from Kansas than it really is.
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Post by DocQuantum on Jan 22, 2023 23:20:11 GMT
Yeah, the footnote states that the Iowa location for Pittsdale came from the Atlas of the DC Universe, which I own. It is a fan-made publication that is not canonical for the Pre-Crisis Earth-1 and has a lot of problems.
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