What city is this?

@grandcomicsdb.bsky.social synopsis: "Luthor gains super strength in order to battle Superman in hand-to-hand combat after Brett Calhoun announces that he is going to give away half of his fortune ($3 million) to any man who can prove he is the richest man in Metropolis."

Buscema's note to Lee on the original art (bottom of the final page): "Near Earth, still in the future."

Original art of the cover, in all its paste-up glory
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No idea.

The comments on Nicola Scott's tweet are enlightening.
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The first PANEL.

Nicola Scott: "Graphic novels are called GRAPHIC novels for a fucking reason. This bullshit is exhausting. I've worked on scripts that barely explain what's happening, sometimes with no dialogue. I have to work out what the hell’s going on, make it make sense, emotional & visually interesting."

In the dumbest ending of a time travel story ever written, the Surfer gets to future by flying past the speed of light in Silver Surfer #6, 1969.
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Splash page

"The Living Statues" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko (lettered by Artie Simek) for Amazing Adult Fantasy #12, 1962

"The Secret of the Universe" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko (lettered by Artie Simek) for Amazing Adult Fantasy #11, 1962

Three years later without any scientific basis, Marvel had at least two short stories showing time moving faster in space: