- Script
- Frank Miller
- Pencils
- David Mazzucchelli
- Inks
- David Mazzucchelli
- Colors
- Richmond Lewis
- Letters
- Todd Klein
- Job Number
- G-3028
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He's out to clean up a city that likes being dirty.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Lieutenant James Gordon; Detective Sarah Essen; Holly; The Roman (villain); Harvey Dent (assistant district attorney); Jefferson Skeevers; Detective Flass; Commissioner Gill Loeb; Barbara Gordon (James' pregnant wife)
- Synopsis
- Batman takes on the upper echelons of organized crime and becomes allies with Gordon.
The Gordons have a baby boy.
- Reprints
- in Batman (Juniorpress, 1984 series) #14 (1987)
- in Batman (Zinco, 1987 series) #3 (Noviembre 1987)
- in Läderlappen (Semic, 1987 series) #6/1987 ([november] 1987)
- in Batman (Editora Abril, 1987 series) #4 (dezembro de 1987) [original title: Chapter 4: Friend in Need (Batman: Year One)]
- in Lynvingen (Semic, 1977 series) #2/1987 ([desember] 1987)
- in Batman: Year One (Warner Books, 1988 series) (1988)
- in Batman (Grupo Editorial Vid, 1987 series) #12 (Febrero 22 de 1988)
- in Batman: Year One (DC, 1988 series) ([June] 1988)
- in Batman: Year One (DC, 1988 series) ([October] 1988)
which is reprinted- in Batman: Ă…r ett (Semic Press AB; Carlsen/if, 1989 series) (1989)
- in The Complete Frank Miller Batman (Longmeadow Press, 1989 series) #1 (1989)
- in Batman - Vengeance Oblige (France Loisirs, 1989 series) (septembre 1989)
- in Batman - Année 1 (Delcourt, 2000 series) (avril 2000)
- in Batman: Rok pierwszy (Egmont Polska, 2003 series) ([grudzień] 2003)
- in Batman: Year One Deluxe Edition (DC, 2005 series) ([June] 2005)
- in Klassiker der Comic-Literatur (Frankfurter Allgemeine, 2005 series) #7 - Batman (2005)
- in Batman: Year One (DC, 2007 series) ([April] 2007)
- in Batman: Ă…r 1 (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2007 series) (2007) [2. translation]
- in Batman : Year One (Panini France, 2010 series) (août 2010)
- in Batman - Année Un (DVD et Blue-Ray inclus) (Urban Comics, 2012 series) (juillet 2012)
- in Batman - Année Un (Urban Comics, 2012 series) (juillet 2012)
- in Batman y Superman: ColecciĂ³n Novelas GrĂ¡ficas (ECC Ediciones, 2017 series) #13 - Batman: Año Uno (Julio de 2017)
- in Batman: Year One - The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2017 series) ([November] 2017)
- in Batman - Année Un (Urban Comics, 2020 series) (février 2020)
- in Le meilleur de Batman (Urban Comics, 2022 series) #2 - Année un (juin 2022)
Joker mentioned at end of story, placing his first story in the first year. Revamped origin of Batman.