Captain Marvel's City Stories

[David Swan]

His Favorite Location

 

Starting in issue #24 of Captain Marvel Adventures C.C. Beck began his successful series of 'City Stories' in which cap would visit actual cities around the U.S. The first story was called 'The Minneapolis Mystery' followed by 'Doom in Detroit', 'Sabotage in Seattle', 'Captain Marvel Makes a Movie Hit' (Los Angeles) and so on. As far as I can tell there are a total of 28 city stories. So which state is the most well represented? Turns out it's my home state of Ohio with Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton. Dayton wins out over Akron? Dayton wins out of my home city of Cleveland? Seriously? But still it's awesome to have Ohio as cap's favorite destination.

 

One of my mini goals in my collection was to collect all three of the Ohio city stories. I have issues 37 (Cincinnati) and 41 (Dayton) but still need Columbus but not only do I have Cincy and Dayton but I have the single highest graded copies of each. One more and I have the full set.

 

Here are the list of all cities visited as far as I saw....

Minneapolis, MN

Detroit, MI

Seattle, WA

LA, CA

San Francisco, CA

Portland, OR

Denver, CO

Buffalo, NY

Dallas, TX

Omaha, NE

Oklahoma City, OK

Indianapolis, IN

St. Louis, MO

Cincinnati, OH

Chattanooga, TENN

Pittsburgh, PA

Boston, MA

Dayton, OH

St. Paul, MN

Chicago, IL

Washington DC

Kansas City, MO

Columbus, OH

Mobile, AL

Rochester, NY

Hartford, CONN

Baltimore, MD

Ft. Worth, TX

 

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