Batman: The Long Halloween Special #1

A quarter-century after the original series, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale return to Gotham for this one-shot special — and Tim Sale's cover signals exactly the mood you'd hope for: Batman swoops headlong over the city on a grapple line, cape spread wide against a smoldering orange sky, with a massive carved jack-o'-lantern looming behind him like a harbinger of dread. The atmosphere is pure autumnal menace, Gotham's towering architecture lit in Halloween amber as the Dark Knight descends into whatever "Nightmares" await below.