Author: Tom King

Illustrator: Phil Hester

Cover: Phil Hester

Once upon a time, there was a shining city upon the water, a home for families, hope, and prosperity. It was Gotham, and it was glorious.

The story of its downfall, the legend that would give birth to Batman, remained untold for 80 years.

This is about to change.

Famous creators Tom King and Phil Hester team up for the first time to tell the definitive origin of Gotham City: how it became the nexus of violence and corruption it is today, and how it housed and then unleashed the sin that led to the rise of the Dark Knight. Two generations before Batman, private investigator Slam Bradley becomes embroiled in the “kidnapping of the century” as heir Wayne disappears into the night… and thus begins a brutal, epic tale of a man living on the edge and a city on the verge of burning.