No bonus points if you guess that it answers. Ever the detective, he examines the body, determining that the corpse was in a struggle before dying, and casually asks what his name was. Upon arriving back in Gotham, Bruce discovers a dying man who has been left tied up in Wayne Manor. Accompanied by his faithful butler Alfred Pennyworth and his young wards Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, and Timothy Drake, they take the cadaver-who-will-be-Freeze and head back home.Īlso: a dark omen that “the Thing is coming.” This is initially spooOOOooOoooOOoOoKy, but it, uh, doesn’t really coalesce. Freeze, and Oswald Cobblepot strip naked and join his flippered friends.Īfter twenty-some years of traveling abroad, Bruce Wayne feels the call back to Gotham City. I mean, in the first ten pages you see a giant Cthulu-esque creature frozen in ice, a new take on Mr. What initially seems like a good successor to one of my favorite Batman stories, Gotham by Gaslight, wastes no time in demonstrating just how bizarre of a story it’s going to be. Let me just get this out of the way up front: this book is weird.

That seems strange considering the pedigree and level of talent involved, but better late than never I suppose. Published in late 2000 and early 2001, the Mike Mignola penned series had inexplicably not been collected until just a few weeks ago. Taking into consideration that Arkham Asylum was named after a fictional town found in Lovecraft’s lore, and that natural fit turns into a no-brainer. Given that Lovecraft’s works were steeped in the macabre and filled with no small amount of gothic horror elements, the Dark Knight of Gotham seems a natural fit. That is the question that the recently collected miniseries Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham seeks to answer. Additional pictures available upon request, please email with comic specific request.What would Batman be like had he been written by H.P.

It spawned one sequel, Batman: Master of the Future (1991), also written by Augustyn, with art by Eduardo Barreto. While not originally labelled as such, subsequent printings of Gotham by Gaslight have incorporated the Elseworlds logo. The story revolves around a 19th-century version of Bruce Wayne making his debut as Batman just as Jack the Ripper has arrived in Gotham City.Īlthough it was not initially labeled as such, Gotham by Gaslight is considered to be the first Elseworlds story in which DC Comics characters from alternate timelines or realities are featured in stories outside of the DC Universe canon. Gotham by Gaslight is a DC Comics one-shot by Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola, with inks by P. Gotham by Gaslight spawned a sequel entitled, Batman: Master of the Future which carried the Elseworlds imprint. Arguably the first Elseworlds publication, though the first book to actually carry the Elseworlds banner is Batman: Holy Terror.

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