Superheroes are everywhere you look these days — and if you ’re in the correct city , the same can be said for their preferred meeting spots . From Avengers Mansion to the Super Friends ' Hall of Justice , many of the menage , central office , and repair of comics ' most famous icons were inspired by genuine - reality localisation . Here are some of the most notable heroes ' home office that have serve up double - duty in both comics and the material world .
1. Avengers Mansion
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First appear in 1963’sAvengers # 2 , the mansion that Iron Man , Thor , Hulk , and the eternal rest of “ Earth ’s Mightiest Heroes ” called home is locate at 890 Fifth Avenue in the Marvel Universe ’s version of Manhattan . Here in the real world , that address corresponds to the Henry Clay Frick House ( above and top ) , a monumental mansion that occupies much of the city pulley where Fifth Avenue meets East 70th Street , and now serves as a museum . Avengersco - Maker Stan Lee and Jack Kirby modeled the superhero squad ’s sign of the zodiac after the Frick House , which Lee go along each day on his commute .
2. The Sanctum Sanctorum
The lair of Marvel ’s sorcerer supreme , Doctor Strange , is locate at 177A Bleecker Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan . Often at the center of various magic passing - on in the Marvel Comics existence , the substantial - world apartment construction at that address is significantly less impressive — though it does have a far-famed connection to the funnies universe . In the 1960s , Marvel Comics writers Roy Thomas and Gary Friedrich shared an flat at 177A Bleecker , which explains how the address finally discover its way into funnies canon . ( The fact that there ’s now a Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt workshop on the ground floor of 177 Bleecker is a detail the strip seem to have ignored , for some cause . )
3. The Hall of Justice
Anyone who spring up up watching the sense - salutary animated risky venture of Hanna - Barbera’sSuper Friendswill recognize the unique architecture of the Hall of Justice , the HQ for Superman , Batman , and the remainder of the DC superheroes feature in the programme . The unique art - art deco way of the construction was inspired by the Union Terminal in Cincinnati , Ohio — a former train station that now serve as a museum and library . A background supervisor on the series , Al Gmuer , mock up the Super Friends ' iconic cornerstone of operations on the terminal , and the fictional construction was later on incorporated into the DC Comics macrocosm as the headquarters of the Justice League .
4. TheDaily PlanetBuilding and Metropolis
Supermanco - creator Joe Shuster once worked as a carrier , and the inspiration for the fictionalDaily Planetnewspaper edifice where Clark Kent works is believed to amount from the former HQ of theToronto Star , which was called the Daily Star when Shuster worked there . Shuster himself has suggest that Toronto was the ocular inspiration for Metropolis , though there is n’t anything even remotely resemble the iconic Earth that pass theDaily Planetheadquarters to be found in the Toronto horizon .
5. Peter Parker’s House
Right from the start , Spider - Manco - creators Stan Lee and Steve Ditko choose the Forest Hills neck of the woods of Queens , NY , as the house of everyone ’s favorite webslinging hero , Peter Parker . However , it was n’t until a 1989 issue ofThe Amazing Spider - Manthat his exact address was specified as 20 Ingram Street . While the actual - world house at 20 Ingram Street is significantly larger than the modest plate Peter Parker subsist in with his Aunt May in the comics , the buildings do deal one very illustrious , mind - blowing connection : they ’re both the home of the Parker family . For more than a ten before Peter Parker ’s habitation reference was out in comic , a house with the “ Parker ” cognomen had lived in the sign of the zodiac at 20 Ingram Street . It ’s unknown whether the series ' author at the time , David Michelinie , was aware of the coincidence when he chose that address for Peter Parker .
( incentive : One of the Parker family ’s neighbour on Ingram Street in veridical - Earth Forest Hills is the Osborne class , who are obviously friendly with the Parkers . )
6. Nightwing’s Cloisters HQ
In the late 2000s , former Batman sidekick Dick Grayson ( who had switched from Robin to the more adult - sounding moniker of Nightwing when he move solo year to begin with ) , take up mansion at The Cloisters Museum in New York City ’s Washington Heights locality . serve as the museum ’s curator by day , he prowled New York by nighttime , and even had sealed portions of the construction remodeled to befit his secret - base needs . In the substantial mankind , the medieval - style Cloisters has n’t served as the house to any superheroes that we know of , but it still strike an telling silhouette at the northern tip of Manhattan .
7. The All-Star Squadron’s Perisphere HQ
The World War II - era dangerous undertaking of DC ’s superheroes were rewritten in this early-’80s series which had the old - school versions of Superman , Batman , Wonder Woman , and a long inclination of other Golden Age submarine sandwich manoeuvre out of the Trylon and Perisphere in Flushing Meadows , Queens . Built for the 1939 World ’s Fair , the futurist pyramid and sphere shapes of the Trylon and Perisphere , respectively , seemed like appropriate headquarters for the squad of classical characters — though they were dismantled at the end of the case . All - Star Squadron suffered a standardised fate , with the series ending in 1987 .
8. Yancy Street
The Fantastic Four ’s rock and roll - bark , gloomy - eyed heavyweight The Thing has never shy away from an opportunity to prompt referee that he came from Yancy Street , a hard neighbourhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan . While there is n’t any Yancy Street to be found in the real - world rendering of that neighborhood , there is a Delancey Street — which just so happen to be in the locality whereFantastic Fourco - Lord Jack Kirby grew up . Given how many real - world details from creators ' lives made it into these former Marvel strip , it ’s assumed by many comics experts that Yancy Street was indeed a bandstand - in for Delancey Street , which spans the Lower East Side from the Bowery to the East River .
Bonus! Address On File, No Such Resident
Some other famous fictional landmarks that have addresses in the actual reality but were n’t pep up by any subsist edifice let in theFantastic Four ’s Baxter Building , located at the corner of 42nd Street and Madison Avenue ; Iron Man ’s Stark Tower , near Columbus Circle in Manhattan ; and the Justice Society of America ’s former headquarters in Morningside Heights , Manhattan .
