| Silver City | |
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The silver city as depicted in the Lucifer series. Art by Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | More Fun Comics #52 (February 1940) |
| Created by | Jerry Siegel (writer) Bernard Bailey (artist) |
| In story information | |
| Type | Dimension |
| Notable people | The Presence |
| Notable races | Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominions, Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Archangels, Angels |
The Silver City is a fictional location in stories published DC Universe. It is the home of beings known as Angels and of the The Presence, the primary deity of Judeo-Christian theology in the DC Universe. The Silver City debuted in More Fun Comics #52, (February 1940), and was created by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Bailey.
The original form of the Silver City is referred to in More Fun Comics #52, (February 1940), and was created by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Bailey.
The modern Silver City was re-imagined for Neil Gaiman's Season of Mists storyline in The Sandman, when the angels Duma and Remiel are dispatched to the Dreaming to observe the events there following Lucifer's abdication of the throne of Hell. The Silver City is emphatically not the same place as Heaven. It exists "outside the created order of things" and apparently predates the rest of Creation. These same traits are attributed to the Christian Heaven.
Gaiman used the location again in his short story "Murder Mysteries", which is set in the Silver City, and features the angel Raguel's investigation of the first murder ever. In 1999, comics author Mike Carey started The Sandman-spinoff series Lucifer, in which the Silver City is an important and frequently displayed location.