Rofl, while i agree in principle to the argument of no maniacal, colorful villain running amok in gotham, where do u get the NJ thing from?? Just cause the slums in BB look like jersey doesnt make it jersey...haha j/k i love jersey even though im a bostonian. I thought gotham was supposedly set in a fictitious city called gotham
According to the New Adventures of Superboy Gotham and metropolis are on oposit sides of the Delaware Bay, with Gotham City in New Jersey and Metropolis in Delaware.
There seemed to be liscense plate in "Batman: Shadow of the Bat" that said Gotham was in New Jersey.
Rhode Island was the basis of another map of Gotham City in Swamp Thing vol. 2, #53.
According to Nightwing it takes forty minutes by plane and six hours by train to get from New York to Gotham.
In TDK the License plates of the cars registered in Gotham strongly resemble that of Illinois but they say Gotham for the state.
Maybe they could have a scene where some tourists mistake Batman for The Jersey Devil.
Look at the geography section on Gotham's wikipedia article for more infomation.
I myself have always thought Of Gotham being more northern to allow for longer nights for Batman to do his work.
						

