DC Comics has introduced the most recent addition to their Black Label line of books. Dan Jurgens and Mike Perkins will staff for The Bat-Man: First Knight, a three-issue collection reimagining a number of the darkish knight’s earliest instances.
Here’s how DC describes The Bat-Man: First Knight:
The 12 months is 1939. The world, nonetheless reeling from the horrors of the First World War, is getting ready to tipping into an much more ugly battle, as fascism is on the march—and gathering energy in America’s darkest corners. Against this backdrop, a collection of violent murders has begun in Gotham, and the latest emergence of the mysterious vigilante often known as The Bat-Man has the facility brokers of the town residing in concern of institutional collapse. All of the proof within the homicide investigation defies logic: the perpetrators are all males who died within the electrical chair. But when the Bat-Man comes nose to nose with one in all these sickening anomalies, he barely escapes along with his life—throwing into query his means to outlive in a world that’s brutally evolving round him!
Along with a essential cowl by Perkins, The Bat-Man: First Knight #1 will likely be obtainable with variant covers by Ramon Perez and Jacob Phillips, plus a “pulp novel” fashion variant cowl by Marc Aspinall.
The Bat-Man: First Knight just isn’t the primary time that the story of Batman’s earliest supernatural instances have been revisited and reimagined for a brand new viewers. Cartoonist Matt Wagner took the same tack on the 2006-2007 collection Batman and the Monster Men and Batman and the Mad Monk. Jurgens has additionally beforehand written an early model of The Bat-Man within the pages of 2021’s two-part Generations miniseries.
The Bat-Man: First Knight #1 (of three) is ready to hit shops and digitally on Tuesday, March fifth, 2024.
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