Hub City (DC)

Hub City is a city that features in DC Comics.

History

Hub City was well known for over a century for its corruption long before the first appearance of the original Question. Its crime situation by the time the Question returned to Hub after years of working elsewhere made it the subject of so-called "Hubbie" jokes.

For years, the city was run by criminal elements that operated from behind the scenes. This level of corruption saw drunkard Wesley Fermin appointed as mayor who became little more than a figurehead. He later became a murderous psychopath who attempted to kill his wife Myra Connolly-Fermin where she later succeeded him as mayor.

For some years, Hub City was run by criminal elements from behind the scene, with the drunkard Wesley Fermin as the figurehead. Fermin would later turn out to be a murderous psychotic, attempting to kill his wife, Myra Connolly-Fermin, who had succeeded him as mayor. Despite his efforts, televised nationally as a consequence of the attempt happening during her acceptance speech, Connolly-Fermin survived to assume office.

Nonetheless, Hub City became worse from there. Crime, already rampant before Fermin's election defeat, was now pervasive. Less than ten police officers were considered honest, the firefighters went out armed, Connolly-Fermin faced several more assassination attempts and every single social service eventually broke down, in the wake of the state governor apparently deciding to use Hub City as an experiment to see what might happen in such circumstances.

Hub City's next major appearance in the wake of the O'Neil-Cowan Question series has been announced to be in Crime Bible: Five Lessons of Blood # 4, featuring Vic Sage's successor as the Question, Renee Montoya.

Inhabitants

• Aristotle Rodor :
• Vic Sage :

Notes

• Hub City was created by Steve Ditko where it made its first appearance in Blue Beetle v5 #1 (June, 1967).

Alternate Versions

• In The Question: The Death of Vic Sage v1 #1 (2019), an alternate version of Hub City was shown in the story within the Black Label line. It was shown that the city was home to the Hub City Elder Society that was a kind of private club consisting of men of influence in the city in the first half of the last century. The earliest references to the society were back in 1924 whilst the last known reference was back in 1952.

In other media

Television

• In Smallville, the episode "Ryan" shows Clark running to Hub City to the location of Dr Burton who had developed a new serum to treat Ryan's brain tumor.
• In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, the episode "Fall of the Blue Beetle!" identifies Hub City as being the home of Ted Kord.
• In the Arrowverse, Hub City made a number of appearances in the shared continuity setting.
  • In Arrow, Hub City was first mentioned in the live-action television series in the episode "Unchained". Roy Harper mentioned living in Hub City under an unknown alias until his identity was discovered by the Calculator. In "Genesis," Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak travel to Hub City to meet with an immortal shaman named Esrin Fortuna who was recommended by John Constantine to stop Damien Darhk's magic.
  • In Legends of Tomorrow, Hub City was mentioned in the live-action series where its name was said in the episode "Left Behind". The bounty hunter Chronos mentioned that a UFO sighting in 1960 at Hub City indicated that Captain Rip Hunter had survived the attempt at destroying them.

Appearances

• Blue Beetle v5: (1967)
• The Question v1:

External Links

• DC Database Entry
• Comicvine Entry

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