The year is 1939. The world* still reeling from the horrors of the First World War* is on the brink of tipping into an even more gruesome conflict* as fascism is on the march--and gathering strength in America's darkest corners. Against this backdrop* a series of violent murders has begun in Gotham* and the recent emergence of the mysterious vigilante known as The Bat-Man has the power brokers of the city living in fear of institutional collapse. All of the evidence in the murder investigation defies logic: the perpetrators are all men who died in the electric chair. But when the Bat- Man comes face to face with one of these sickening anomalies* he barely escapes with his life--throwing into question his ability to survive in a world that is brutally evolving around him! Legendary writer Dan Jurgens and superstar artist Mike Perkins return to the earliest days of the Dark Knight* retelling one of his most infamous cases through an acutely modern lens* depicting a world paralyzed by anxiety and a desperate populace crying out for release!