DC Comics has announced Gotham City: Year One from Tom King and Phil Hester. The duo will team for the first time to tell the definitive origin of Gotham City from how it became a cesspool of violence and corruption to how it unleashed the sin that led to the Dark Knight. King and Hester, along with Eric Gapstur, Jordie Bellaire, and Clayton Cowles, launch Gotham City: Year One on October 4.

Private investigator Slam Bradley gets tangled in a headline grabbing kidnapping as the infant Wayne heir Hele disappears in the night. The story takes place two generations before Batman.

The debut issue features a variant cover by Ryan Sook and 1:25 variant cover by David Marquez. It debuts October 2022 and runs for six issues ending in March 2023.