Which movie? The recent one, with Spacey as Luthor? The Chris Reeve flick definitely put it in Kansas? As for Opal City, wasn't it Captain Fear who ran in ADVENTURE COMICS from just before the Spectre's debut there until a couple of issues in, and then years later a few more stories in the back of some other title (UNKNOWN SOLDIER?)? Opal was definitely an inland river port in James Robinson's STARMAN. Or, I ask again, has DC published something else with a completely different depiction of Opal City in it?

The placement of the various super--hero home towns in states is something that is still hotly debated here at DC, most notably by Senior Editor Julie Schwartz and Associate Editor Nelson Bridwell. It was ENB who assigned "statehood" to the various cities, despite Julie's objections that Metropolis was not in Delaware and that Gotham is right across the river from Manhattan in "Gotham State". (As readers of BATMAN FAMILY know, Barbara (Batgirl) Gordon is a congressperson from Gotham, not New Jersey!) Julie contends that Gotham, Metropolis and New York are all in the same general area, existing on Earth--One where we have no major cities on Earth--Prime, on land which is not part of any particular state...except that of imagination. [The DCU's New York is is not where it is in reality?--T.W.]
[New Paragraph] And, by the way, Ivy Town has been described as being near Boston, while Star City was placed near Hartford, putting the former in Massachusetts and the latter in Connecticut---the opposite of the way it was listed in AWODCC #14!---BR

Of most of this you can make what you will, but note that the original work under discussion is credited here to pro E. Nelson Bridwell, not then--fan Mark Gruenwald, as was said above in post #19, and Rozakis was right there at the time, and said THIS shortly afterward!

As I indicated earlier, I'm thinking that Opal was the locale of James Robinson's STARMAN, and nobody said I was wrong, confused, or anything. THAT town is well inland, on a river, and there's no chance of it being Galveston (I'm an east Texan myself, and have no idea why I failed to catch the above quote earlier). So I see three possibilities:

1: There's more than one Opal City depicted in DC Comics.
2: You've grossly misremembered that post.
3: That post is a crock.

Any idea which?

THAT WOULD BE NORTH OF METROPOLIS SURELY.

AND ON THE WAY HE ARRIVED AT SMALLVILLE!

I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING VERY WRONG ABOUT THAT.

I ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT METROPOLIS WAS NEW YORK (OR CLOSE TO NEW YORK).
I'VE HAD THE IDEA SINCE I WAS A KID THAT SMALLVILLE WAS ABOUT THE MOST CENTRAL POINT IN THE MAINLAND USA.

Since when was he not in Metropolis?

Re: Opal City

I seem to remember a usenet post explaining why Opal City couldn't really be anywhere except SE Texas, with its closest analogue being Galveston. (As a Houstonian who always wondered why a state with 2 of the 10 largest cities in the US didn't get a DCU city, this made me happy)

The Central City, OH thing is interesting to me--by the time Waid's "Chain Lightning" and Walter West stories were published, we had gotten official in-story confirmation that Keystone was in Kansas and Central was "across the bridge," making it MO by most fans' reckoning. Then the second Flash Secret Files came out, with the profile of Walt, and he was listed as operating out of "Central City, OH." Fans were dumbfounded.

And a couple others just because; we know from WWIII (the JLA Mageddon story, not the one that isn't out yet) that Vanity is in Oregon, which is really weird to me. Personally, I had it pegged as Dayton or Akron in Ohio. But then, my opinions on those areas are somewhat skewed...

And I've heard that Black Lightning's Brick City was Cleveland.

"The Earth's there all right...but everything's out of place! New York is sprawled out all over where Gotham is supposed to be...Boston suburbs cover Star City...and Metropolis is...Metropolis is nowhere to be seen!"

http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/bobro/98438400093459.htm

Wasn’t there once a Duck story where the characters raised a sunken boat by filling it with ping pong balls?

That was the previous Urban Legend that I linked to at the beginning of the Duck piece.

Really? But Manhattan IS in Kansas!

I Have a Pre-Crisis Superboy Comic "New Adventures of Superboy #22, I think), that puts Smallville as a suburb of Metropolis, which is across a river (I want to say Gotham River) from Gotham city (there was a special map section of that, and the town of Smallville). Also, an earlier issue had the Kents go to Metropolis in order to fly out to the west coast.