This timeline keeps Halloween 1 & 2 in tact and disregards 3, 4, 5, and 6.

Gordon goes home to his wife and says that he has to keep fighting for the good of Gotham, despite what it has cost.

Instead they together set fire to the warehouse and destroy the money. Later, Gordon and Batman discuss what Dent might have meant with his final statement, since Alberto has confessed to all the Holiday murders. Gordon needs to hear it from Dent himself.

When Batman appears, the three discuss the lengths they will go to bring the Roman down. At the last possible moment he grabs the Joker and leaps to the nearby clock atop a skyscraper. Gordon has come to the conclusion, based on his discovery that Dent possessed a .22, that the D.A. Dent brushes himself off and curtly walks away. Batman and Gordon are baffled by the turn of events that have befallen Dent. Barbara tells Gilda that business is a taboo subject that evening, but in the kitchen, Dent is discussing his recent discovery about Bruce Wayne with Gordon. DC, 1996 Series Series Timeline . Falcone is enraged at Batman, accusing him of knowing that Dent was Holiday but standing aside while he killed, because criminals were the only victims. But his actions have not gone unnoticed, and the Roman's goons come and give him a beating, warning him to lay off for his own sake. Dent enters the living room to find the Gordons there to celebrate New Year's with them, but the D.A. Bruce is eager to leave and pursue his regular night activities, until he meets up with Selina Kyle. Meanwhile Harvey Dent, District Attorney of Gotham City, has been in the basement parking garage of the Roman's home, copying down the license plate numbers of various cars. Daniel subsequently resigns from his position and Bruce steps in. Bruce listens in on the conversation from the hallway until he is discovered by Alberto Falcone, the "good son" who shows Bruce the door and eyes him menacingly as he goes. It is June in Gotham City, and Johnny Viti, nephew of Carmine "The Roman" Falcone, is getting married on the hottest day of the year.

Dent cheerfully returns home to help his wife Gilda give out candy to trick-or-treaters. Although Selina asks Bruce if he has further plans for the evening, Bruce claims he is tired and they part company. Instead, her death is an accident caused by Catwoman. Soon, Bruce is in a meeting of the board of Gotham City Bank, very vocally protesting the position of the other board members in favor of accepting the Falcones' money.

Batman arrives just as the Joker is taking off and hitches onto the plane. But as he is rummaging through his mail, a bomb hidden inside a package goes off and blows the Dent house sky high, with Harvey and Gilda barely surviving. Dent contemplates stealing some of it, but Batman puts a curb on such thoughts. Batman postulates that, since Two-Face killed the Roman on Halloween, he was the second killer. Batman, Gordon and Dent discuss the murder when Batman sees Catwoman lurking nearby. Catwoman's information leads Batman and Dent to a warehouse on Gotham Harbor, where they discover that the Roman has stockpiled over twenty million dollars. Batman: The Long Halloween is a 13-issue American comic book limited series written by Jeph Loeb with art by Tim Sale.It was originally published by DC Comics in 1996 and 1997. Falcone hires "The Irish", a gang of hitmen, to get revenge on Dent, who has been promoted to district attorney. On Falcone's yacht in Gotham Harbor, the Roman is talking with Maroni during the New Year's party he is hosting. To that end, the Roman has used his influence on several members of the bank's board of directors, including bank president Richard Daniel, to persuade them to accept his family's business. is Holiday. Luckily, Bruce and Selina soon arrive on their way home for the evening, and help him to his feet. Then while Carmine is talking with Carla, she points out his tendency to surround himself with enemies. And high above the city, just as the clock strikes midnight, Batman pummels the Joker and aims the plane toward the harbor.

The Long Halloween is heavily influenced by film noir and films such as The Godfather. Maroni says that the Holiday killings have been bad for business and that they should put aside their differences to put an end to it. It is also the origin of Two-Face, adding along to the …

The Riddler explains that Falcone hired him to find out who Holiday was but kicked him out when the solutions he gave were less than satisfactory.