What is the setting in Frank Miller’s Sin City the Hard Goodbye?

The graphic novel's setting is Sin City, a corrupt desert town with the official name of Basin City. The setting is modern to the 1990s, when the graphic novel was written, neither futuristic nor set in the past, but The Hard Goodbye evokes the past with its stark black and white imagery and a style that borrows heavily from film noir. Marv himself constantly refers to the past, sticking to his idea that the best things (coats, cars) were all made in the past, the forties and fifties. This is the time period of film noir, the setting in which Marv most comfortably belongs. He is a character displaced in time.