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The following contents were (unless otherwise noted) written by Jeph Loeb and illustrated by Tim Sale.

 

 

DC Comics

Marvel Comics

Other

1991

 

Challengers of the Unknown (second series) #1-8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1993

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Batman:  Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special

 

 

1994

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uncanny X-Men Annual #18:

back-up story

 

 

Batman:  Madness – a Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special

 

 

1995

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cable (second series) #23:

eight pages of art

 

 

 

Wolverine / Gambit:  Victims #1-4

 

 

Batman:  Ghosts – a Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special

The Savage Hulk:

eleven-page story

 

1996

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Batman:  The Long Halloween #1-13

 

 

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1998

 

 

 

 

 

Superman for All Seasons #1-4

 

 

 

 

 

1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vampirella #1:

back-up story

 

Batman:  Dark Victory #0-13

 

 

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Daredevil:  Yellow #1-6

 

 

 

 

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Spider-Man:  Blue #1-6

 

 

 

 

2003

 

 

 

 

the short story “The Same Thing Happens Every Night” in JSA:  All-Stars #2

 

 

 

the short story “When Clark Met Bruce” in Superman / Batman Secret Files 2003

Hulk:  Gray #1-6

 

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Challengers of the Unknown (second series) #1-8

1991’s eight-issue Challengers of the Unknown mini-series, while an early collaboration of Loeb and Sale, nonetheless had merit.  It was not, however, a great success.  For completion’s sake, the two also collaborated about this time on the entry for the Challengers in Who’s Who (second series) #1; this series of files on DC Universe characters was in magazine-size loose-leaf format on glossy paper, with each entry being a single folio (or one page, both front and back).

Batman

·         Batman:  Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Specials

This eighty-page special was cover-dated December 1993.

This 48-page special was cover-dated November 1994.

The precise title and details of this special are unknown to me at present.

These three Halloween Specials were collected as Batman:  Haunted Knight, the team’s first trade paperback, published to coincide with the launch of Batman:  The Long Halloween.

For more information, see The Continuity Pages:  Batman > Year One Era.

·         Batman:  The Long Halloween #1-13

Following the success of the Halloween specials, DC offered Loeb and Sale this 13-issue mini-series, the length being a great rarity at the time.  What’s more, the first and thirteenth issues were prestige format, 48-page episodes, not only adding to the series’s length but mixing the format of the series, another great rarity.  Taking place during Batman’s first and second years, the story would revive many of the mafia characters from Frank Miller’s Batman:  Year One.  The first and last issues would take place on Halloween, separated by a year; intervening issues would occur on Holidays during that year’s time, as a killer who killed on holidays struck again and again.  The series was published along a similar schedule, from October 1996 to October 1997.  A trade paperback collection followed about a year later and a hardcover was published subsequently (a sure sign of success).  This is probably Loeb and Sale’s best collaboration:  the concluding sequences, in particular, are absolutely masterful, on par with the best of any medium, not only containing a surprise ending but devastatingly good narration and imagery.

For more information, see The Continuity Pages:  Batman > Year One Era.

·         Batman:  Dark Victory #0-13

This sequel to Batman:  The Long Halloween continued immediately following that mini-series.  It was preceded by a short story in #0, published as a supplement to Wizard (the comics-related magazine) #97.  Like its predecessor, #1 and #13 were 48-page prestige format issues.  This was the second Loeb-Sale collaboration to be collected first as a hardcover (following Superman for All Seasons).

For more information, see The Continuity Pages:  Batman > Year One Era.

X-Men

·         Uncanny X-Men Annual #18

Loeb and Sale collaborated on a back-up story in this 1994 annual.

·         Cable (second series) #23

Loeb wrote this issue of the Cable ongoing series.  Entitled “Family Secrets” and cover-dated September 1995, Tim Sale illustrated eight pages of Jeph Loeb’s script.  Other artists included Ian Churchill (who also provided the cover art), Mark Buckingham, and Scott Hanna.

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