The real history of the home of Batman, Gotham City, as seen in films and comics. With images of its architecture and maps of its streets. Gotham is a city of gargoyles & graveyards, 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.