Opal City

Notable characters	Ted Knight Jack Knight The Shade
First appearance	Starman vol. 2 #0 (October 1994)
Publisher	DC Comics

Opal City is a fictional city set in the DC Universe. Created by James Robinson and Tony Harris, Opal City first appeared in Starman vol. 2 #0 (October 1994). "The Opal" has been established as the home of several DC Comics characters, most notably several super-heroes who have operated under the name of Starman. Other, non-Starman related heroes who have come to call Opal City their home are the second Black Condor and the Phantom Lady, as mentioned in Teen Titans vol. 3 #20, as well as the Elongated Man. The city itself is first mentioned in Action Comics #251, April 1959 as the name of a ship, the S.S. Opal City which Superman rescues from a modern-day pirate crew. It can be inferred that Robinson named the city due to his vast knowledge of obscure comics continuity from both the Golden Age and the Silver Age.

Depictions of Opal City in the Starman series showed it as a generally Eastern-US city with a port (though not necessarily a seacoast) and being surrounded by generally flat terrain. Mid-2000s (decade) issues of the JLA series, specifically 2005's "Crisis of Conscience" arc, have explicitly established Opal City as being located in Maryland, per Robinson's longstanding opinions on the subject in various interviews with fans.

Opal City is particularly notable for several aspects of its depiction in the second Starman series. The original settlement, "Port o' Souls", was established by Puritan settlers in the early 18th century. In 1884, the town elected Brian "Scalphunter" Savage as sheriff. About the same time the morally ambiguous Shade made Opal City his home.

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