10 Great DC Elseworlds Comics EVERY Fan Must Read
3. Batman: Gotham By Gaslight
With this we enter the top three, the cream of the crop, the absolute best Elseworlds stories ever. And what better note to start with than one of the original titles to use the Elseworlds brand: Batman Gotham By Gaslight.
Unlike Wonder Woman: Amazonia, this doesn't put Bruce Wayne in Victorian England but rather Gotham City at the turn of the century. But of course, that doesn't stop Jack the Ripper from showing up anyway and messing with the Gotham police.
So, of course, it's up to Batman to bring the villain to justice.
Like Wonder Woman, the mythos of Batman is incredibly easy to fit into other time periods. Hell, Batman may actually fit a lot better into this time period because of how much he takes after penny dreadful heroes.
Self made men with their special devices that they use on daring adventures. It almost fits too perfectly, which is probably why this story works as well as it does, making for a fascinating reimagining of Gotham and its caped crusader that you want to revisit again.