Next week, DC Comics launches a brand new Year One series unlike any other. The publisher, famed for Batman Year One, has dived in to the histories of many characters. But this time around, under the watchful eye of writer Tom King, we’re diving deep in to the history of one of DC’s most legendary locations. Gotham City.
Gotham City: Year One #1 hits comic book stores and digital platforms on October 4, 2022. The issue arrives with main cover from series’ artists Phil Hester (pencils), Eric Gapstur (inks) and Jordie Bellaire (colours). The main variant comes from superstar artist Ryan Sook and the book also has a 1:25 variant from David Marquez.
Here’s a sneaky peek at the synopsis:
There once was a shining city on the water, a home for families, hope, and prosperity. It was Gotham and it was glorious. The story of its fall from grace, the legend that would birth the Bat, has remained untold for 80 years. That’s about to change.
Superstar creators Tom King and Phil Hester team up for the first time to tell the definitive origin of Gotham City: how it became the cesspool of violence and corruption it is today, and how it harbored and then unleashed the sin that led to the rise of the Dark Knight. Two generations before Batman, private investigator Slam Bradley gets tangled in the “kidnapping of the century” as the infant Wayne heir disappears in the night…and so begins a brutal, hard-boiled, epic tale of a man living on the edge and a city about to burn.
Next up, let’s take a look at several preview pages from the issue:
Gotham City: Year One #1 hits comic book stores and digital platforms on October 4, 2022.
