From master storyteller Frank Miller (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City) comes the most incredible Batman story of all...one that at last reveals the truth behind the Dark Knight's very first year as a crimefighter! Batman's origin is re-told, as only Frank Miller can. Lieutentant James Gordon takes up a new post in the crime-ridden and corrupt city of Gotham, while billionaire Bruce Wayne returns to the scene of his parents' deaths, intent on punishing the criminal element. Each faces trials and challenges of their own, only for their lives to become irrevocably and potentially tragically intertwined. And as the shadow of the bat falls on Gotham, so a legend is born.