Beaten and bloody at the hands of police interrogators who want him to confess to the murder of an NYPD detective, disinherited rich-kid Gideon Slade fights to proclaim his innocence. But when he finds himself staring down the barrel of an interrogator's gun, Gideon realizes that the interrogators have no intention of letting him live long enough to stand trial. A desperate escape from custody has the entire police force chasing him down with orders to shoot to kill. Gideon, however, is far from helpless. He guards secrets that the interrogators hunting him can't even begin to imagine. He can make the hunters the hunted - all he has to do is survive alone, and unarmed with every cop in the city trying to kill him. He has to survive long enough to become The Black Skull. And when he does, there will be hell to pay. With two guns blazing in the heart of a dark city in the 1930s, the Black Skull is the only hope for justice in a time and place so corrupt that heroes have to hide their faces. In a city rotten to its core, where Justice is found at the barrel of a gun, the Black Skull battles the predators the law can't - or won't - touch. Once upon a time - heroes had to wear masks.