"In this thrilling origin story of Black Canary, the titular hero uses everything she has--including her voice--to fight against a world where women have no rights"-- Dinah Lance was seven years old when she overheard the sound of a girl singing. It was something she was never meant to hear, not in Gotham City, taken over by the Court of Owls. The sinister organization rules Gotham as a patriarchal dictatorship, all the while spreading their influence...

In the year 2088, the doomsday clock inches towards midnight. The Command, synonymously the World Destroyer, is on the loose. Not even Lamont Cranston, the Shadow's alter ego, knows who he is, but the clock is ticking as people around the world drop dead by the day, with the attack at the World's Fair the most sinister yet. It's up The Shadow and his band of allies to stop the end of the world.