10. Year One (1987)
The most obvious source among McKenzies lot is Frank Millers seminal Batman origin tale Year One. Focused as much on James Gordon as on Bruce Wayne, Year One depicts the lengths both men will go to and some they wont in order to fight crime in Gotham. A greenhorn as far as the way things work is concerned, young Gordon finds Gotham to be a horrible place to raise a family. The politicians are corrupt, the cops are corrupt, and just about everyone seems to want to impede Gordon from doing what he knows is right. Theres plenty of police station drama here, and characters like Flass will hopefully crop up in the show. Year One features some of the most significant Gordon moments in the history of his character. While the common conception of him is of the grizzled, determined, trenchcoat-wearing commissioner who stands on top of GCPD headquarters flicking the Batsignal on and off, Gordon paid his dues as a detective in his own right. He deals swiftly and awesomely with police corruption in Year One, and its that Gordon were most likely to see in the Gotham series.