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'''Coast City''' is a [[fictional city]] created by [[John Broome]] and [[Gil Kane]] that appears in stories published by [[DC Comics]]. It is depicted most often as the home of the [[Silver Age of Comics|Silver Age]] version of the superhero [[Green Lantern]], [[Hal Jordan]]. |
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Coast City, which first appeared in ''Showcase'' #22 in [[September]]-[[October]] [[1959]], was a city located in [[California]]. This made it one of the few fictional cities in the [[DC Universe]] to have a specifically given location from the start. Coast City was usually portrayed as an analogue of [[San Diego]] or [[Los Angeles]]. |
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Features of Coast City included Ferris Aircraft, an [[aerospace]] company which [[Hal Jordan]] worked for as a test pilot; his romantic interest, [[Carol Ferris]], was the company's manager. Coast City also included an extensive [[beach]], and was a popular spot for [[surfing]]. |
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In the [[1990s]], Coast City was destroyed, with nearly all of its residents - then numbered at seven million - killed by former astronaut Hank Henshaw, better known as the [[Cyborg Superman]], an enemy of [[Superman]]. One of the results of this was Hal Jordan becoming the villain Parallax. This led in turn to the appointment of a new Green Lantern, [[Kyle Rayner]]. A memorial to Coast City's victims was erected on the site of the city with the help of most of the major superheroes of the period. |
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More recently, Coast City was rebuilt in the wake of Jordan's apparent return to the ranks of the living. Repopulating the rebuilt city became one of the latest initiatives of [[Jonathan Vincent Horne]], then-current president of the [[United States of America|United States]]. Thus far, Coast City has remained a ghost town due to its reputation as the site of a mass murder. Among the exceptions depicted to date is the resurrected Hal Jordan, who lives in Coast City when he isn't working at nearby [[Edwards Air Force Base]] as one of their test pilots. |
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The [[United States Navy|American Navy]] is also establishing a presence in the region in the wake of its reconstruction, as both a domestic security and economic stimulus measure, as depicted in ''Green Lantern''(fourth series) # 4-5. |
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