Cleveland
One of the biggest cities in the state of Ohio.
- Cleveland is the city upon which Metropolis was based.
- Downtown Cleveland was used for key scenes in Spider-Man 3, Captain America: The First Avenger, and The Avengers.
- Cleveland was the home of underground comics maverick Harvey Pekar, who is buried there.
- It is the home of the Cleveland Indians baseball team and the Cleveland Browns football team from which Family Guy character Cleveland Brown gets his name.
- Cleveland is known for producing comic book writers; Marc Andreyko, Brian Azzarello, Brian Michael Bendis, Harvey Pekar, Jerry Siegel, and Marc Sumerak and William Ritt, among others, are all from Cleveland.
- Comic artist Joe Zabel lives in Cleveland.
- Although born in Canada, Joe Shuster moved to Cleveland when he was 10 years old.
- Key events in the history of Howard the Duck take place in Cleveland.
