Product Description

The award-winning team of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale re-visit the dark world of Batman: The Long Halloween for all-new tricks and treats. Someone, it seems, has picked up where the killer known as Holiday left off. Key figures in the police force are being targetted. Who is the Hangman? Batman must solve the mystery before someone close to him becomes the next victim! As Gotham completes its journey from a city run by organised crime to one run by lawless freaks, so the Dark Knight completes his transformation into the city's greatest defender. Set during Batman's early days as a crimefighter, Dark Victory features villains such as the Joker, Poison Ivy and Mr Freeze, and introduces Robin!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #72418 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-27
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 392 pages

Crime Time, Barry FOrshaw, May 2002
....Dark Victory makes a very convinving case that Sale and Loeb are one of the best teams working in the genre.

About the Author
Jeph Loeb is a screenwriter/producer whose comic credits include Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight. He is currently writing The Fantastic Four and Daredevil: Yellow. Tim Sale is the acclaimed artist of Batman: Haunted Knight. He is currently drawing Daredevil: Yellow.

Customer Reviews

Another great graphic novel
In this sequel to Batman: The Long Halloween, a new District Attorney has plans to clean up Gotham, and her plans include cleaning up Batman. But, someone is playing Hangman, and with each new game, someone in the police department gets hanged. As if things aren't bad enough, a mass breakout from Arkham puts a lot of super-villains on the street (including Two-Face, Joker, Solomon Grundy, Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, and Penguin).

This is another great graphic novel, and a worthy sequel to The Long Halloween. I thought the story was nice and gripping (just like a Batman story should be!), while the illustrations were wonderfully done, making the whole read that much better. I enjoyed the Catwoman character once again, and thought that the author did a great job with the Robin character. I highly recommend this book to any, and every, Batman fan!

stunning sequel to Long Halloween
The Long Halloween was a stunning trade paperback, and this sequel is the same. Unfortunately, a bit too much the same!
Basically someone is killing the mob family leaders one by one, on different holidays, leaving a clue each time in the form of a hangman game. Batman tries to unravel
the clues but then the killings start targeting cops too.
The story is very similar to TLH, but that isn't such a bad thing, as it is a great story, with Batman, Catwoman and Gordon all desperately trying to unravel the
mystery of the killer. The artwork is dark and gothic, exactly as Batman should be. Tying in the debut of Dick Grayson as Robin is a great move, especially as he
plays a minor role which proves important without overshadowing the main story. Definitely recommended.
There are rumours that the author and artist will do a follow up to cover Catwoman's journey to Italy.

A haunting look at the early life of the Batman
Dark Victory is set in the not too distant future from where The Long Halloween finished, and continues the story of early life of the Batman, his struggles with himself, and the Gotham City that made him. Weaving a tale around the Falcone crime family, Jeph Loeb sucessfully intertwines the story of the orphaned child that was Bruce Wayne to the avenging angel/demon that is Bruce Wayne, with the simple tie that bound Thomas Wayne with Carmine "the Roman" Falcone in The Long Halloween. In the course of the story Bruce Wayne must confront his past in order to make sense of his future, and it is within the pages of this beautifully illustrated book we see the first glimmer of that future. All the expected cast of "freaks" appear in this story although their own separate nightmares are not revealed here. For any one who likes their Batman stories to be of a dark nature then this book won't disappoint you.