Gotham Central was a police procedural comic book series that was published by DC Comics from February 2003 to April 2006. It focused on the Gotham City Police Department (GCPD) and the difficulties of its officers living and working in Gotham City, home of Batman.

Albeit an artistic success, the series was a commercial failure. The series eventually became notorious for its outstanding reviews, dedicated fanbase and poor sales and was ended on issue #40. Greg Rucka and Ed Brubaker co-wrote the first story arc together then divided the series between them with Rucka writing the GCPD day shift storylines and Brubaker doing the night shift, with artist Michael Lark for both.

The vivid, in-depth characterizations was in stark contrast to the many ongoing titles of DC at the time and Gotham Central’s debut yielded Eisner Award nominations in 2003 for Best New Series, Best Writer-Rucka, Best Writer-Brubaker, and Best Penciller/Inker-Lark. It ended up winning the Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story 2004 for “Half a Life” (Gotham Central #6-10) and the Harvey Award for Best Single Issue or Story 2004 for “Half a Life” (Gotham Central #6-10).

The entire 40-issue series is arbitrarily divided into 3 discrete single-download RAR archives. For complete details including cast, storylines, synopses, special appearances and cover galleries, there’s the DC Comics database