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DC Comics’Batman : The Long Halloween Special # 1 , showsBatmanandTwo - Faceteaming up to deliver Two - Face ’s wife Gilda who ’s just been captured by Calendar Man ( aka Julian Day ) . Despite the longtime tensity between Batman and Two - Face , Two - Face needs his help and he asks for it in the spoiled and most Two - Face - esque way possible .
Batman : The Long Halloween Special # 1 , write by legendary comics creators Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale , is a one - shot comic follow - up to the 1996 13 - result series of the same name . This issue picks up where the tale left off over two decades ago . Fans still require to hump the reply to the notorious question : Who incisively is the Holiday Killer ? According to Loeb , he suggest at the Holiday Killer ’s identity in the original series , but ostensibly , only the most eagle - eyed readers picked up on it . This new issue escort former allies Two - Face and Batman pair upto delivery Two - Face ’s dear married woman , Gilda Dent . Two - Face ( aka Harvey Dent ) , descended into madness ever since one of Gotham ’s biggest gangsters Sal Maroni throw acid in his face , leaving one - one-half of his face bad marred . Two - Face is known for doing thing in deuce , so even when he ( reluctantly ) call for Batman ’s help in this effect , his dual persona is ever - present .
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InBatman : The Long Halloween Special # 1Gilda Dent and Two - Face are reunited after being aside for some sentence . Both are deep devoted to one another despite Two - typeface ’s half nefarious nature . It ’s Halloween night and they ’re enjoying a romantic dinnertogether . Their even , however , is cut short when the doorbell rings . Two - Face grows visibly queasy and wonders who might bonk of their whereabouts , but Gilda assure him that it ’s likely just trick - or - treaters on the hunt for confect . Gilda opens the door to find Calendar Man standing there , he bump her unconscious and captures her . Two - Face is still in the kitchen , pour more wine-coloured , incognizant of what just happen . But , when he realizes his wife is missing he has a hunch that Julian Day is behind it . Recognizing that he ’ll postulate outside assistance to find his married woman , he habituate the Bat - signal to summon Batman , but the symbol looks a little different this time . There ’s a jagged line down the middle of it and the correct - side is lack . So , when the Bat - signal illuminates the Nox sky , both Batman and Commissioner Gordon immediately make the connection that Two - Face is the one ask for help .
Batman rushes to Two - case ’s location and finds that half of his Bat - signaling has been smashed to bits . Two - Face lives in wave-particle duality and his devotion to living in two is striking in these panels . While it ’s potential that he shatter part of the Bat - Signal in an attempt to reiterate his current dislike for Batman , it ’s also potential that it ’s acting as a brief peace offer . This newfangled version of the Bat - signal represents their former allyship , but the jagged line down the middle is a admonisher of the breach in their kinship as a issue of Batman ’s mistrust of Harvey Dent eversince his evolution into Two - Face . so as to save his wife , Two - Face has no choice but to expect for Batman ’s help and this sign is declarative of a bond between the couplet that , although wound , may not be completely broken .
Batman : The Long Halloween Special # 1brings former - friends - now - enemies , Two - FaceandBatmantogether in an attempt to rescue Gilda . This allow some hope for devotee looking to see a possible reconciliation between the two .
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