Oh HELL yeah…this is right up my Bat-Alley!
Longtime DC scribe Dan Jurgens (THE DEATH OF SUPERMAN) is teaming up with artist Mike Perkins for THE BAT-MAN: FIRST KNIGHT: A new DC Black Label comic set in 1939 and retells some of The Dark Knight’s very earliest adventures.
THE BATMAN: FIRST KNIGHT will be a 3-issue series that will commence in March 2024 and will feature a main cover by Perkins, with variant covers by Ramon Perez and Jacob Phillips, as well as a “pulp novel” style variant by Marc Aspinall. The official synopsis from DC…
The year is 1939. The world, still reeling from the horrors of the First World War, is on the brink of tipping into an even more gruesome conflict, as fascism is on the march – and gathering strength in America’s darkest corners. Against this backdrop, a series of violent murders has begun in Gotham, and the recent emergence of the mysterious vigilante known as The Bat-Man has the power brokers of the city living in fear of institutional collapse. All of the evidence in the murder investigation defies logic: the perpetrators are all men who died in the electric chair. But when The Bat-Man comes face to face with one of these sickening anomalies, he barely escapes with his life — throwing into question his ability to survive in a world that is brutally evolving around him!
Check out some of the sneak peek images below…
Like I said, these type of Batman stories under the BLACK LABEL banner is the best Batman stuff DC is (and has been) doing for a while. Can’t wait to read this! SO…
Can we get a live-action Batman movie set in 1939 under the Warner Bros./DC Studios ELSEWORLDS banner at some point? #bangthedrum – Bill “Jett” Ramey
