Batman: City of Crime Deluxe Edition Hardcover – March 17, 2020

Batman tries to catch the parties responsible for giving a teenager with wealthy, but absent parents an overdose of drugs. It leads him to Park Row,AKA crime alley. A fire that consumes several buildings, killing many people breaks out. In trying to save lives an illegal baby selling ring, where pregnant women are kept hostage untill they give birth and their babies are sold,is discovered. Then a woman claiming her pregnant daughter is missing attracts media attention so Batman decides to help her. The things he then discovers are mind blowing.

Batman City of Crime (IMO) is probably one of the best Batman Story I have ever read. Its dark, moody, seedy, gritty and pretty much every adjective that could be associated with the Batman. Written by David Lapham of Stray Bullets fame, City of Crime is detective story in every sense of the way. There's this weird atmosphere in the writing and the amazing art by Ramon Bachs is just the cherry on top. City of Crime is about how Bruce Wayne's careless dismissal of a young woman at a party would start off a chain reaction of events which would lead Batman into the seedy heart of Gotham to face a horrific villain.The trade paperback went out of print for a very long time and I am so glad that DC decided to bring this back in print and in a Deluxe Edition hard Cover no less. There is a second cover by Jock which is also a treat for the eyes. But I wish there were some more extra features in it like a writer's interview or something but no matter. This book is back in print and if you like a more detective style batman story where clues are to be found and a crime is to be solved then I cannot recommend this book enough.

A good story but the most ‘adult’ Batman I‘ve read yet: dark themes for the dark knight.

Such a fantastic dark, gritty, mystery story. This one, for me, is taking Batman to some very real and very dark crimes that we don't normally get. It has some excellent use of some rogues that aren't overused and are done really well. It was hard to put down. I really just wanted to keep reading it till I finished it. Great artwork. David Lapham tells an amazingly good story here.

This is an awesome hardcover with a great story and enjoyable artwork.

I loved the graphics, and now it takes it's place of honour in my precious collection

This book is horrible. The plot is so murky and allover the place there are too many Characters to keep straight. I was really looking forward to reading this book and was hugely dissapointed.