Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
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Batman: Gotham by Gaslight is a DC Comics graphic novel by Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola. It spawned a sequel Master of the Future also written by Augustyn but with art by Eduardo Barreto.
Although not labeled as such, Gotham by Gaslight is now considered to be the first Elseworlds story, where DC Comics heroes are taken out of their usual setting and put into alternate timelines or realities.
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[edit] Gotham by Gaslight
The book features Batman in the 1880s, fighting Jack the Ripper when the serial killer comes to Gotham City.
[edit] Master of the Future
In the sequel Batman has to battle Alexandre LeRoi.
The story is similar to Master of the World, a film which combined two novels by Jules Verne: Robur the Conqueror and its sequel Master of the World.
[edit] Publication
The stories have been collected in a couple of trade paperbacks.
Gotham by Gaslight was released as a single volume:
- Gotham by Gaslight (by writer Brian Augustyn, with pencils by Mike Mignola and inks by P. Craig Russell, 48 pages, 1989, Titan, ISBN 1-85286-265-3, DC, ISBN 0-930289-67-6)
Both stories have been collected in one volume (confusingly with the same name and cover as the earlier release):
- Gotham by Gaslight (by writer Brian Augustyn, 112 pages, 2006, Titan Books, ISBN 1-84576-403-X, DC, ISBN 1-4012-1153-4) collects:
- Gotham by Gaslight (with pencils by Mike Mignola and inks by P. Craig Russell)
- Master of the Future (with art by Eduardo Barreto)
[edit] Trivia
- In Gotham by Gaslight, the Joker makes a cameo appearance.
- In the Elseworlds series 2 action figures, there is one of Batman with the costume from the novel.
[edit] See also
- List of Elseworlds publications
- List of steampunk works
- From Hell, Alan Moore's Ripper-based graphic novel
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Moore's Victorian-era tales of derring-do
Other Elseworlds that involve Jack the Ripper:
- Batman: Two Faces
- JLA: The Island of Dr. Moreau
- Wonder Woman: Amazonia
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