Batman: Gotham Knights – Gilded City

A mysterious virus has infected Gotham City, turning its citizens into rabid, yellow-irised maniacs driven to looting, theft, and bursts of anger. As Batman and the Gotham Knights—consisting of his protégés Nightwing, Batgirl, Robin, and Red Hood—try to contain and stop the outbreak, their search for more information about the virus leads them to uncover the story of the Runaway, an early Gotham vigilante who dealt with a similar outbreak in the 1800s.^[1]

The six-issue miniseries was written by Evan Narcisse and illustrated by ABEL.^[2] The comic was first announced at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2022,^[3] three months ahead of the release of Gotham Knights, to which it serves as a prequel.^[4] Batman: Gotham Knights – Gilded City began publishing on October 25 the same year, four days after the game was released.^[5] In addition to the United States, the series was published simultaneously in Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Spain. It was distributed as both individual issues and a hardcover collected edition, the latter of which was released in all aforementioned territories, as well as Poland, on July 25, 2023.^[6] Each issue came with a code for a Gotham Knights in-game item, as well as a seventh item given to those who purchased all six issues of the series.^[4]

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