The history of the Gotham City, with images of its architecture and maps of its streets. Built on foundations of crime & concrete and given form by zealots, Gotham is a city of graveyards & gargoyles, alleys & asylums, and bats & owls. It has been the physical embodiment of urban fear from the days of its founding and has one of the most complex and rich histories of any city in comic books - or any other medium. From this nightmare metropolis arose the hero that the city deserves, a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight. The Batman.