Quiet as it’s kept, The Long Halloween is one of the best self-contained Batman storylines of all time. Its reign was brief, but the series has gone on to inform the Batman mythos in countless ways — especially in live-action adaptations. Both Christopher Nolan and Matt Reeves have cherry-picked from The Long Halloween when building out their respective versions of Gotham, with Nolan’s The Dark Knight lifting its origin story for Two-Face (aka Harvey Dent), and Reeves bringing Batman back to his roots as a shrewd detective.
Apart from the presence of a serial murderer, or Selina Kyle’s (Zoë Kravitz) relationship with Carmine Falcone (John Turturro), however, The Batman keeps its other ties to Halloween pretty minimal — but that might change with its upcoming sequel, The Batman Part II. Reeves seems to be following in Nolan’s footsteps by introducing Harvey Dent to his Epic Crime Saga: Sebastian Stan will next step into the shoes of Gotham’s District Attorney, while another Marvel alum, Scarlett Johansson, has been tapped to play Dent’s wife Gilda.
