Batman: Haunted Knight

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Batman: Haunted Knight
Publisher DC Comics
Publication date 1996
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Title(s) Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special #1 (1993)
Batman: Madness - A Legends Of The Dark Knight Halloween Special (1994)
Batman: Ghosts - A Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special (1995)
Main character(s) Batman
The Scarecrow
Mad Hatter
The Penguin
Barbara Gordon
ISBN ISBN 1-56389-273-1
Creative team
Writer(s) Jeph Loeb
Artist(s) Tim Sale

Batman: Haunted Knight is an anthology trade paperback published by DC Comics in 1996. It reprinted three one shot specials from the previous three years. Each of the stories were written by Jeph Loeb and featured art by Tim Sale.

Plot

During the story "Fears", Batman is hunting down and trying to capture Scarecrow. As the title suggests, fear plays a large part in the story, with Batman nearly dying of fear while trapped in a large, poisonous, thorn maze.

"Madness" tells the story of James Gordon's daughter, Barbara, being kidnapped by Mad Hatter and forced to be in a twisted tea party with other kidnapped children. Batman and Gordon finally save Barbara and bring down Mad Hatter.

"Ghosts" is basically a Batman universe version of A Christmas Carol, with Bruce's father taking the place of Marley, and the three spirits being Poison Ivy, Joker, and a Grim Reaper figure who turns out to be Batman's ghost. The message from the spirits is that Bruce should not let Batman take over his entire life.

Time of Events

Little is known of when Haunted Knight takes place in the Loeb/Sale Batman series:

  • During the story "Madness", the villain Two-Face is referenced in the line "Joker. Scarecrow. Two-Face. Each has their own private madness that drives them.", however, Two-Face did not exist in the Loeb/Sale series until the end of the Batman: The Long Halloween, so this story cannot precede it.
  • Catwoman, who was in Rome for six months (Catwoman: When in Rome) following the events of the Long Halloween (from Valentine's Day to Thanksgiving in Batman: Dark Victory), but had returned by the end of Dark Victory, is absent, and Jim Gordon still has the rank of Captain in the Gotham City Police Department, even though he was promoted to Commissioner by the beginning of Dark Victory.
  • The stories "Fears" and "Ghosts" especially, as they involve Batman's home life, are not likely to take place after Dark Victory, because they make no reference to Robin, who had debuted at the end of Dark Victory. However, all three stories take place on different Halloweens.

References

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