Issue Description

All Hallows Eve has come 'round again...and the Dark Knight of Gotham City has a midnight appointment with terror when he faces the twisted genius of the Mad Hatter! Teenager Barbara Gordon has recently moved in with her uncle, Gotham City Police Captain Jim Gordon. But a Halloween night quarrel leads her to run away...and Barbara's horror is just beginning when she falls into the clutches of the Mad Hatter, one of the most disturbing villains in Batman's rogues gallery. Faced with one of the worst nightmares of his life, Jim Gordon's only hope of recovering his niece rests with Batman. But terrors of the past as well as the present haunt the Dark Knight. That may cost Barbara dearly at the hands of the Mad Hatter and the grotesque workings of his damaged mind, raising fear and human drama to even greater heights!

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special (1993)

Publisher

DC Comics

Volume Description

A series of annual Halloween one-shots by writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale as part of the Legends of the Dark Knight series. Like the main series, these were set during the early parts of Batman's career.

The three specials are titled "Choices" ( released in 1993), "Madness" (released in 1994) and "Ghosts" (released in 1995). The first special, "Choices", features the Scarecrow as Batman chases him across Gotham on a Halloween night. The second special, titled "Madness", is set early in Batman's career and a young Barbara Gordon is kidnapped by the Mad Hater as he plans to make her one of his Alices. The last special, based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Bruce is visited by three spirits on Halloween, in the form of Poison Ivy (Halloweens Past), The Joker (Halloweens Present), and a spirit version of Batman (Halloweens Future).

These specials served as the inspiration, along with editor Archie Goodwin, for Loeb and Sale to go on to create the now classic trilogy of Batman: The Long Halloween, Batman: Dark Victory and Catwoman: When in Rome.

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