Batman: The Long Halloween | Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale

Batman: The Long Halloween | Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale | Gangsters, more gangsters, and Batman

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	Batman: The Long Halloween Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale DC Comics, 1999 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 136 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Harvey Dent, Tragic Character

This is probably one of the first stories that really showed Harvey Dent as a tragic figure in the Batman universe rather than some demented villain with a duel identity issue. The Long Halloween probably did the best of showing the relationship of Batman, Jim Gordon, and Gotham's DA Dent. That is of course until The Dark Knight came in theaters. However you can see where pieces of this story inspired the feature film.

Gangsters, more gangsters, and Batman

What drew me to this book is that the all the characters were portrayed the way they were meant to be portrayed none of that fancy computer animation manga type artwork that I got sick of. The story was a classic detective story in which Batman looks for a Holiday Killer dubbed "Holiday" who is killing off gangsters on holidays. It is truly a detective story genre and as like previous reviewers mentioned it has the whole "Rogue Gallery" cast throughout the story and if your not a true die hard batman collector like myself the story is interesting because the killer is not who you expect at the end and yes there are gangsters and shootings. The origin tale of Two Face is intertwined in the story as well so that is an added bonus for many.

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Halloween is now my favorite holiday

This was my first graphic novel and I have to say that it was awesome! The story is great and Tim Sale's art is just as great. Every chapter gets more and more interesting as the book progresses. It's just really good.

The Birth of Two-Face

Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale penned a dark, noirish tale that sent the Dark Knight on a year-long crusade to stop the mob killing done by a villain known as Holiday. It features appearances by the most infamous characters in Batman's Rogues Gallery (Joker, Penquin, Riddler, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, and Mad Hatter, as well as the unfamiliar to me Calendar Man). Catwoman appears to be connected to the killings in a big way. What drew me to the book (it WAS first published periodically beginning in 1995) was the portrayal of Harvey Dent. The rise and fall of the DA was surely the basis for the character's portrayal in the movie The Dark Knight.

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Trick or treat

Jeph Loeb's and Tim Sale's maxiseries about the origins of Two-Face and Batman's attempts to solve the identity of a mystery of serial killer named "Holiday," who kills people affiliated with a Gotham City crime family on the year's major holidays, was something of a revelation when it was brought off in 1996-97. Loeb and Sale had successfully added to the story and mood begun in Frank Miller's and Dave Mazzuchelli's wonderful BATMAN: YEAR ONE, but had somehow also managed to bring in the more colorful members of Batman's rogues gallery (the Joker, the Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, the Mad Hatter--even Solomon Grundy) into this very noirish and moody world, and somehow they all fit right in. The result is not only one of the most beloved Batman graphic novels ever, but it was also a major influence on Christopher Nolan's extremely successful 2008 movie THE DARK KNIGHT. (There's even a later fine sequel in Loeb's and Sale's later graphic novel BATMAN: DARK VICTORY.) Pay attention here particularly to Sale's moody compositions and to the stunning use of muted color: this is really film noir translated to the medium of comics in a manner even more successful than Frank Miller's over-the-top SIN CITY works.

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