# Superhero headquarters **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2017, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-headquarters/794532 "2017-08-24T07:55:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-headquarters/794532/21 "2017-08-28T12:39:21Z")
Blackhawk Island, base of Blackhawk’s team: > **[Blackhawk Island](https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Blackhawk_Island)** > > There have been several different Blackhawk Islands over the years. Blackhawk Island is the home base for the Blackhawks, a paramilitary group founded during World War II. Blackhawk Island houses the members of the Blackhawk Squadron, their planes,... Challengers Mountain, HQ of the Challengers of the Unknown: [![](http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090216031442/marvel_dc/images/d/d7/Challengers_Mountain_001.png) ](http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090216031442/marvel_dc/images/d/d7/Challengers_Mountain_001.png) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-headquarters/794532/22 "2017-08-28T12:43:05Z")
The 1950s-60s DC hero **Space Ranger** had an entire asteroid as his home base: [https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-at22JqzBlYk/VxV8F3lmcxI/AAAAAAAAUhA/bYn\_7O5No5AbXrlLnRMaeriWla\_v30SkgCKgB/s1600/mis92\_005.png](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-at22JqzBlYk/VxV8F3lmcxI/AAAAAAAAUhA/bYn_7O5No5AbXrlLnRMaeriWla_v30SkgCKgB/s1600/mis92_005.png) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-headquarters/794532/23 "2017-08-28T12:46:01Z")
And the Green Lantern Corps gets the entire _planet_ of **Oa** as HQ: > **[Oa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oa)** > > Oa is a fictional planet that lies at the center of the DC Comics universe. Since its inception, Oa has been the planetary citadel of the Guardians of the Universe and headquarters of the Green Lantern Corps. It first appeared in Green Lantern (vol. 2) #1, when the Guardians summoned Hal Jordan's "energy duplicate" so they could hear of his origin. > One of the oldest planets in the universe, Oa serves as the home and headquarters for a race of blue-skinned powerful humanoids called the Guardians ... ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-headquarters/794532/24 "2017-08-28T14:20:03Z")
The New Champions in Austin Grossman’s tragicomic superhero novel _Soon I Will Be Invincible_ have a high-tech HQ in midtown Manhattan. > [@TYphoonSignal8](#): > > Because the key was also used as an aircraft guidance arrow. Pre-GPS! I did read somewhere - Atlas Obscura? - that these things actually existed… Yup: > **[Transcontinental Airway System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcontinental_Airway_System)** > > The Transcontinental Airway System was a navigational aid deployed in the United States during the 1920s. > In 1923, the United States Congress funded a sequential lighted airway along the transcontinental airmail route. The lighted airway was proposed by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and deployed by the Department of Commerce. It was managed by the Bureau of Standards Aeronautical Branch. The first segment built was between Chicago and Cheyenne, Wyoming. It was situated in t... [http://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2013/09/07/jt-washington-county-points-the-way-from-salt-lake-to-l-a-1920s-navigational-cement-arrows/#.WaQlpz6GOUk](http://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2013/09/07/jt-washington-county-points-the-way-from-salt-lake-to-l-a-1920s-navigational-cement-arrows/#.WaQlpz6GOUk) ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-headquarters/794532/25 "2017-08-29T22:47:59Z")
The Champions of Los Angeles (Marvel) had a headquarters building that, in a running gag, _nothing_ worked right. Turns out the contractor low-balled all the bids and made the headquarters with cheap materials. ---
**Author:** ![TYphoonSignal8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@TYphoonSignal8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TYphoonSignal8)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-headquarters/794532/26 "2017-08-30T04:47:57Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > And the Green Lantern Corps gets the entire _planet_ of **Oa** as HQ: > > [OA - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oa) Not quite a building, though. Didn’t though the Green Lanterns have some sort of great hall on Oa? Marv Wolfman era? The giant sized special issue with Nekron and the red robed GLs? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superhero-headquarters/794532.md?page=1)