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.