User blog comment:Nausiated/Location Chronology Project/@comment-1713281-20120901025832/@comment-61022-20120901034119

Midville was also the location where the Human Torch (Johnny Storm) had a lot of his early solo adventures in Strange Tales. But yeah it was a "catch all" location for a small American town, a lot of early stories in the 40's took place in towns called Midville... On in particular that comes to mind involved the original Human Torch fighting crooks who were starting forest fires (Some odd issue of Marvel Mystery Comics circa 1941 I vaguely recall...) I would say that it's probably a location that would garner it's own page since it was used so often, and it was so generic that you could lump all the references together. It wasn't until the Strange Tales days that they identify Midville as being in New York State.