GOTHAM CITY: YEAR ONE
Gotham Metropolis’s crime of the century…generations earlier than DC’s Darkish Knight!
Tom King and Phil Hester share Gotham Metropolis’s secret origins!
As soon as upon a time there was a shining metropolis on the water, a house of households, hope and prosperity. It was Gotham, and it was wonderful. The story of its fall from grace, the legend that will give start to the bat, has remained untold for 80 years. That’s about to alter.
Gotham Metropolis: Yr One #1 cowl by Phil Hester, Eric Gapstur and Jordie Bellaire
Eisner Award-winning creator Tom King and legendary storyteller Phil Hester staff up for the primary time to create Gotham Metropolis’s definitive origins: the way it turned the cesspool of violence and corruption it’s right this moment, and the way it housed after which unleashed it sin that led to the rise of the Darkish Knight.
“Evening is falling quick in Gotham Metropolis,” Hester mentioned. “The shadows cross each the responsible and the harmless. I really feel fortunate to be the artist to indicate you the way this metropolis received so darkish within the first place.”
King and Hester launch along with Eric Gapstur, Jordie Bellaire and Clayton Cowles Gotham Metropolis: Yr One on October 4. Set two generations earlier than Batman, personal investigator Slam Bradley turns into embroiled within the headline-grabbing “kidnapping of the century” when toddler Wayne heiress Helen goes lacking within the night time … and so begins a brutal, hard-boiled epic story of a person , residing on the sting and a metropolis that’s on hearth.
“Having written a ton of Batman comics,” King mentioned, “I can say that it’s extremely uncommon to write down a e book like this the place you may add one thing huge and vital to the mythos of the Darkish Knight like Scott did with the Courtroom of Owls or Grant did with the introduction of Damian or Frank did with every thing he touched Gotham Metropolis Yr OnePhil and I’ll take you to a noir-soaked previous the place the secrets and techniques that made Gotham turn out to be Gotham, the sins that made Batman Batman, are lastly and violently revealed.”
“Tom has crafted a narrative that may resonate with Batman historical past previous and current,” continued Hester, “and I hope that the storytelling strategies that Eric, Jordie, Clayton and I convey will improve his razor-sharp strategy. I’m honored for enjoying a small half in bringing Siegel and Shuster’s seminal creation to a brand new viewers, and in giving one in all DC’s oldest legends the white-hot highlight he deserves.”
Gotham Metropolis: Yr One #1 inside by Phil Hester and Eric Gapstur
Gotham Metropolis: Yr One by Tom King, Phil Hester, Eric Gapstur, Jordie Bellaire and Clayton Cowles will debut with a variant cowl by Ryan Sook and a 1:25 variant cowl by David Marquez. The six points shall be revealed between October 2022 and March 2023.
Gotham Metropolis PI busts Bradley Gotham Metropolis: Yr One #1
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