New York City is famously the birthplace of comics; it’s where the newspaper syndicates were based, where the first comic book was created and sold, and where DC, Marvel, and most of the other publishers were based for the first seven decades of the industry’s existence. It’s also where almost all superheroes live… even if they sometimes call it Metropolis or Gotham.But the truth is that from the earliest days of comics, there was another signif…