This week DC Comics returns to 1940’s Gotham as a new serial killer stalks the streets. Writer Dan Jurgens returns to The Dark Knight for The Bat-Man: Second Knight, the sequel to last year’s hit The Bat-Man: First Knight series, created alongside artist Mike Perkins and colourist Mike Spicer. Today we’re getting a closer look at the first issue with an extended preview.
The publisher has revealed a lengthy synopsis which tees up how the story of Second Knight has moved on and the new threat facing Gotham City:
The year is 1940. Most of the Western world is embroiled in a war against a fascist regime whose march across Europe shows no sign of defeat. With the specter of global war looming, it’s a time of fear and paranoia for those living in Gotham. It’s only been a few months since the city was rescued from undead monsters by the masked vigilante known as The Bat-Man, but a vicious killer has been on a murder spree that’s taking the city to its breaking point. Bodies are turning up in theatrically gruesome ways… all staged with the killer’s calling card: a hangman’s noose. While The Bat-Man endeavours to solve the spate of murders, a young reporter from the Daily Star named Lois Lane arrives in Gotham. Meant to cover a movie premiere, it doesn’t take long for Lane to find herself caught in the grips of a new villain in Gotham. One whose mastery of fear will plunge the city into chaos!
Main cover art for Book One comes from series artist Mike Perkins with variant designs by Marc Aspinall, Fabrizio De Tommaso and Jorge Fornés.
DC has debuted an extended preview featuring eight fully-lettered interior pages from the series debut. You can read each of those pages below:
Pre-order your physical copy of The Bat-Man: Second Knight #1 from Forbidden Planet now. Or grab your digital copy from Amazon Comixology UK.
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