from the great white way to the dark knight: the story of gothams costumes /

"We always knew they meant New York," novelist Lawrence Block wrote in his intro to the first trade paperback of the DC Comics series Gotham Central. Block was writing both approximately the inherent New-Yorkness to Bob Kane's initial vision of Batman's Gotham City and of Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka's incarnation in Gotham Central.

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