Jeph Loeb always planned to be creating the final chapter in Batman's Long Halloween saga alongside Tim Sale, Loeb's friend of decades and the artist who co-created the original Long Halloween, its sequel Dark Victory, and 2021's Long Halloween revival one-shot, which Loeb and Sale told Newsarama at the time was just the lead-in to the story that has now become Batman: The Last Halloween.
But Sale passed away suddenly in 2022, leaving behind a legacy as an artistic visionary with an instantly recognizable style, and just a few unfinished pages for the story he and Loeb had planned on telling. And with Sale's death, Loeb also thought the story would die with him.
