This is a really strong image of Batman in action.
I've already read all of these stories repeatedly, and own them all in their original, serially-published format, but as I wanted to take a look at the "Madmen Across The Water" story from Showcase '94, I borrowed the trade for the library the other day and, as long as I had it, thought it might be worth re-reading some of those stories and discussing them here for anyone who wasn't an active Batman consumer in the early '90s, and/or love Time Sale but haven't got around to this trade yet (It does feature some pretty great work the artist and a few shorter works of particular note, but Long Halloween and Dark Victory, despite some of their plot flaws and logical shortcomings, remain Sale's must-read Batman work).Īs an added bonus, each story has an individual introduction by Sale, and it's so thorough that it contains his runs as the cover artist for Detective Comics and Batgirl (Correct me if I'm wrong when I reach the end of this post, but I'm pretty sure this is everything Batman-related that Sale's done that hasn't been collected elsewhere, with the exception of covers from the line-wide 2001 "Last Laugh" crossover story). This, then, is everything else, including Sale's earliest work on the character and rare examples of his work on the modern Batman, rather than the solo "Dark Knight" era Batman, so we get to see him draw the likes of Robin Tim Drake, Bane, Mr. The Long Halloween/ Dark Victory sorta spin-off, Catwoman: When In Rome, has also been collected. His two long-form, "Year One" era mysteries with writer Jeph Loeb- The Long Halloween and Dark Victory-are both available in various collected forms, and the trio of Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween specials that lead up to those-1993's Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special #1, 1994's Madness and 1995's Ghosts-have all been compiled into Batman: Haunted Knight. Despite the somewhat awkward title, this collection is a pretty valuable one, compiling all of the odds and ends of artist Tim Sale's work on the Batman character that aren't already available in standalone graphic novels.
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