Drywood Gulch

An uninhabited ghost town in the western United States where, in May 1962, [[Superman]] defeats eight escapees from the [[Phantom Zone]]—super-powered [[Kryptonian]] criminals banished into the Phantom Zone for their “horrible crimes” sometime prior to the destruction of the planet [[Krypton]]—who are determined to lure Super man into their midst and then exile him into the Phantom Zone forever by shooting him with special “ray-guns” powered by an ingenious “phantom zone generator.” Challenged to a fast-draw ray gun showdown by the eight Kryptonian outlaws in which anyone struck by a ray-blast will be dispatched instantly into the Phantom Zone, Superman triumphs over his adversaries by melting their ray guns with a blast of his awesome heat vision and then using his own ray-weapon to propel them back into the Phantom Zone “where those evil beings be long,.,” (S No. 153/3: “The Town of Supermen!”)