By: Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale Publisher: DC Comics Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: DC Comics Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 192 Publication Date: September 01, 1996 Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: September 01, 1996
Product Description: In the city of the demented villains, Halloween brings out the worst of the lot. This edition collects three of Batman's Halloween adventures in which he takes on some of the most fearsome and twisted foes--The Scarecrow, The Mad Hatter, and The Penguin. Graphic novel format. Available in September.
Really cool, Origins I liked this graphic novel a lot mainly for the origins it gives on Batman. It's three short stories in one.Batman fights three different villains in each of them and it shows how much of Bruce's life being Batman really takes up. The strain it puts on him, both mentally and physically, and how much he cares for his family's memory and Gotham City
Classic Loeb & Sale!! If you're looking for a straight up classic Batman book without being bogged down by continuity this is a great read. Good stuff.
Good but not their best Good book with amazing visuals. This was the first Loeb/Sale graphic novel I purchased and really got me back into comic books in general. One thing that might turn readers off is that it isn't a flowing story but rather broken up individual stories. The first deals with Batman/Bruce battling Scarecrow and his fear toxin, the second has Barbara Gordon kidnapped by Mad Hatter, and the third is a play off of Dicken's Christmas Carol centered on Bruce. Another turn off is that Joker is hardly featured. This serves as a good intro to Loeb and Sale's styles but since it is a one-shot, I would pick up The Long Halloween first and then come back to this later.
The Macabre Tricks of Despicable Villains A trio of tales with Halloween as the backdrop places Batman/Bruce Wayne in incredible peril....and by the final story, perhaps no way out of a truly ghoulish nightmare.
With Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale at the helm, the stories - Fears, Madness, Ghosts - each pound away at certain emotions in anticipation that the Dark Knight may crack under the pressure. In Fears, the bizarre mind of Scarecrow is juxtaposed with the wonderful relationship between Wayne and Jillian. Madness is a disturbing look into the twisted revenge of the Mad Hatter, who is kidnapping young children, with one victim being police Captain Jim Gordon's adopted daughter, Barbara. Ghosts reaches into the darkness of the soul, as Batman is "visited" by apparitions that seem all too real.
There are no treats for Batman/Wayne, but the reader does not need to wait for October to dive into the bag of tricks by these classic bad guys.
Not as good as the other Sale/Loeb its really good but not as good as the other two books Loeb/sale did together the its goes very deep into the mind of bruce wayne and shows us a bit more of human side to batman, buuuuut the ghost of Christmas past thing going on in the last section is a bit strange for a batman
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