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''[[The Long Halloween]]'' is a [[Batman]] mini-series that ran from 1996 to 1997, produced by the creative team of [[Jeph Loeb]] and Tim Sale. The mini-series came out of the duo's semi-regular yearly Batman Halloween Specials that they did for DC Comics.

The mini-series was extremely popular, in large part because it came out at the time that DC was overtly whoring out the main Batman books with cross-overs after cross-overs, meaning that fans were happy to have a compelling and well-written Batman book to read that didn't require them to buy four books and spin-off books to understand. It had a great deal of impact on later Batman books, most notably its exploration of the idea of the crime-fighting alliance between Harvey Dent<ref>whoseWhose pre-Two-Face self had not received much focus prior to this series</ref>, Batman, and Commissioner Gordon, as well as the subtext of the conflict between traditional organized crime and the up-and-coming supervillains. This was also a major influence on Nolan's ''Batman'' films: ''[[The Dark Knight Saga|The Dark Knight]]'' copies the alliance between Batman, Gordon, and Dent straight from here, and homages this series in a number of other scenes--even the slogan "I believe in Harvey Dent" came from here.