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  • Batman: Gotham Noir
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Trivia
  • * Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips would later team up again to work on the Gotham Central series.
Letterer1
  • Bill Oakley
Inker1
  • Sean Phillips
Inker1
  • Sean Phillips
Writer1
  • Ed Brubaker
Penciler1
  • Sean Phillips
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  • Virgin
Colourist1
  • Dave Stewart
Writer1
  • Ed Brubaker
StoryTitle
  • Gotham Noir
Editor1
  • Ivan Cohen
Penciler1
  • Sean Phillips
Appearing
  • Featured Characters: * * Supporting Characters: * * * * * Adversaries: * :* :* Louis Santoro :* Mayor Artie DeHaven * Other Characters: * Judge Pitt * Mickey O'Malley * Rachel Hollingsworth Locations: * :* :* :* James Gordon's office :* Kitty Kat Club :* O'Malley's Bar
Letterer1
  • Bill Oakley
Colourist1
  • Dave Stewart
Editor1
  • Ivan Cohen
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CoverArtist
  • Sean Phillips
Country
  • USA
Executive Editor
  • Mike Carlin
Issue
  • 1
Speaker
  • [[W:C:dc:James Gordon
Links
  • * Batman: Gotham Noir at IGN Comics * Batman: Gotham Noir at Ed Brubaker's site
Volume
  • 1
Title
  • Batman: Gotham Noir
Month
  • March
Synopsis
  • Gotham Noir is an Elseworlds story that reimagines Batman in a setting. The story takes place in Gotham City in the year 1949, and is told through the character of James Gordon, written non-traditionally as a hard-boiled alcoholic private detective. They are caught up in a massive conspiracy involving the corrupt Mayor's office and connections to Gotham Organized Crime when a beautiful young woman turns up dead and Gordon is framed for her murder.
Image
  • James Gordon Gotham Noir 02.jpg
Notes
  • * 's appearance in this story is ambiguous and open to interpretation; it is left unclear whether he is secretly Bruce Wayne, or a creation of Gordon's imagination. Batman is only ever seen in Gordon's presence, and the first time they meet Gordon wonders aloud whether or not he's cracking up. Harvey Dent mentions at the end of the story that he created Batman as a rumor, and he never existed at all, but it is unclear whether or not he is joking. Selina Kyle mentions that Bruce has a habit of disappearing at social functions, alluding to his double identity. Batman rarely interacts with other characters, but he does knock out some thugs chasing Gordon and fight the Joker briefly. There is a moment when Gordon has been shot where Batman seemingly appears in the same room as Bruce Wayne in different locations without possible explanation, although they are never shown in the same panel. If Batman is indeed merely a hallucination from alcohol and post-traumatic stress disorder, this casts the story into a weird light... as the narrative for most of it is Gordon explaining everything to Batman in flashback while his family is in danger. This would mean that the Joker was holding his family hostage and Gordon spent a good forty pages standing in an alley talking to himself before going to help them.
quotation
  • All I had figured out was that things were definitely not going my way, and I had no real idea why. And that's when the world decided to get even weirder...
Publisher
  • DC Comics
Year
  • 2001
OneShot
  • Batman; Elseworlds