Gotham City: Year One

Tom King

Sep 2023 · DC Comics

About this ebook

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, 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. Collecting Gotham City Year One #1-6.

Ratings and reviews

Like the book Good noir. The reason why I am giving this book only one star less then 5 is becuse the book could have used a wyane family tree in the front cover. I kept getting impatient because I could not figure out where I was in the Wayne family timeline. This could be corrected in another printing and the use of the bat symbols took away from the power of the story. Made it feel like so e one was afraid the story could not stand on its own two feet.