2022’s Gotham City: Year One series by Tom King, Phil Hester, Jordie Bellaire, and Eric Gapstur is now available in a trade paperback edition.
Released as a hard cover collection in 2023, the six-issue mini-series takes place two generations before Batman gets on the scene and stars private investigator Slam Bradley (a Golden Age character originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster a year before Superman arrived from Krypton). Bradley quickly gets embroiled in the “kidnapping of the century” involving an infant Wayne heir.
King described the series as “… add(ing) something large and essential to the mythos of the Dark Knight, as Scott (Snyder) did with Court of Owls or Grant (Morrison) did with the introduction of Damian or Frank (Miller) did with, well, everything he touched. In Gotham City Year One, Phil and I will take you to a noir drenched past, where the secrets that made Gotham become Gotham, the sins that made Batman become Batman are finally and violently revealed.”
Gotham City: Year One consists of 208 pages for a suggested retail price of $19.99.
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