Coast City

Coast City was a fictional city that appeared in stories published by DC Comics. It was the home of the Silver Age version of the superhero Green Lantern, Hal Jordan.

Coast City, which first appeared in Showcase #22 in September-October 1959, was a city located in California, making 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.

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.

In the 1990s, Coast City was destroyed, with nearly all of its residents killed, by the Cyborg Superman, a cyborg enemy of Superman. As a result of this, Hal Jordan became the villain Parallax, with the eventual result of a new Green Lantern, Kyle Rayner, emerging. A memorial to Coast City's victims was erected on the site of the city.

See also: Coast City, 1959, 1990s, Aerospace, Beach, California, Cyborg, Cyborg Superman, DC Comics