Batman: Gotham Knights

Batman: Gotham Knights is a monthly

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Batman: Gotham Knights began in the wake of the Batman: No Man's Land event, a year-long crossover event that had involved all main Batman titles. No Man's Land was followed by a soft relaunch of the main Batman titles, with new creative teams and new editorial direction; as part of this shakeup, the series Batman: Shadow of the Bat was cancelled and replaced with Batman: Gotham Knights. The original creative team consisted of writer Devin Grayson, the first ongoing female writer on a main Batman title, and alternating pencillers Dale Eaglesham and Paul Ryan. Meanwhile, the eight-page black-and-white backup stories were each written and drawn by different writers and artists. Issue #1, titled "Constraints", was published on January 19, 2000 (with a cover date of March). Ongoing penciller Roger Robinson began working on the series from issue #8, "Transference Part 1".

Issues #25–31 were integrated into the Bruce Wayne – Murderer? and Bruce Wayne – Fugitive crossover storylines. Grayson's run as writer ended at issue #32 with the critically-acclaimed one-issue story "24/7" showing a full day in the life of Batman. Scott Beatty then took over as writer from issue #33, with Robinson remaining as penciller. Beatty departed the series after issue #49, at which point the "Batman: Black and White" backup stories also ended.

The series was reinvented from issue #50 under the new creative team of writer A.J. Lieberman and penciller Al Barrionuevo: where previously the series had focused on Batman and the wider Bat-family of superheroes, the series shifted focus to examine Batman's relationships with his villains. Batman: Gotham Knights ultimately ran for a total of 74 issues with the last issue cover-dated April

Collected editions

Although Batman: Gotham Knights was originally uncollected at the time of publication, the majority of Devin Grayson's run as writer of the series has since been collected into two trade paperback volumes. The first story arc written by A.J. Lieberman was also collected in trade paperback form around the time of its original publication.

Issues of Batman: Gotham Knights have also been included in collections of crossover events involving multiple Batman-related titles:

• Issue #13 was included in the paperback collection Batman: Officer Down, published August 2001.
• Issues #25–32 were included in the original collections of Batman: Bruce Wayne – Murderer? and Batman: Bruce Wayne – Fugitive, published 2002 to 2003, and the new editions published in 2014.
• Issues #56–58 were included in the original collected editions of Batman: War Games, published in 2005, and the new editions published 2015 to 2016.

Additionally, individual stories from Batman: Gotham Knights have been included in other collected editions. Issue #10, "Guardian", was included in Legends of the Dark Knight: José Luis García-López, published in November 2021. Issue #23, "Fear of Success", was included in Batman: Scarecrow Tales, published April 2005. Issue #32, "24/7", was included in the first volume of Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told, also published April 2005. Several stories were also included in the Batman: Arkham trade paperback collections, published 2017 to present:

• Batman: Arkham – Hugo Strange included the four-part story "Transference" from issues #8-11.
• Batman: Arkham – Mister Freeze included "Fire & Ice" from issue #59.
• Batman: Arkham – Clayface included the four-part story "The Shape of Things to Come" from issues #68-71.

The "

• Detective Comics
• The New Batman Adventures

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