Since today’s normally taken up by the celebration of a parental birthday, there’s no real time to do a new episode review (I did update the schedule page), but a bit of Halloween content is appropos:
Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale are practically joined at the hip in terms of their contribution to Batman Lore, most famously via The Long Halloween, the miniseries which played a large role in the development of Chris Nolan’s Batman movies. However, before that series, Loeb and Sale produced three well-received Batman Halloween specials which are collected in Batman: Haunted Knight.
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Story D. O’Flaherty & T. Ruegger
Teleplay G. Wolf & T. Ruegger
Directed by B. Kirkland
Original Airdate: November 4th, 1992
DVD: Batman, TAS, Volume One
Summary: When a series of bombings reminds Bruce Wayne of a childhood memory, he is forced to locate the star of his favourite television show and enlist his help to save Gotham’s landmarks.
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Written by Stan Berkowitz
Story by Dwayne McDuffie
Directed by Butch Lukic
Originally Aired: April 7 & 14, 2002
DVD: Justice League, Season One
Summary: A renegade amazon’s plan to unleash a plague knocks the male members of the Justice League out of action, forcing Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl to stop her on their own.
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Written by Hilary J. Bader
Directed by Curt Geda
Original Airdate: October 17, 1998
DVD: Batman: TAS, Volume 4
Summary: When Live Wire escapes while being transported through Gotham City and hooks up with Harley and Ivy, Batgirl needs metahuman help in the form of Supergirl in order to deal with the trio.
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Written by Michael Reaves, Brynne Stephens
Directed by Dan Riba
Original Airdate: November 12, 1994
DVD: Batman: TAS, Volume 3 (it’s positioned as the last episode of the set, but Batman: Animated lists it as episode 78 and I assume that book’s right)
Summary: A restless Barbara Gordon plays hooky from a late-night study session to take a swing as Batgirl, only to be drawn into a caper involving Catwoman.
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Shoo! Go away! I’m restricted to a laptop with a wonky shift key all weekend (and Monoprice is slow as ever in shipping a new flexiboard up to Canada), so typing a full review would be… problematic. But feel free to leave comments about what you think could be done better with these; I know I flubbed Brave and the Bold’s review, but that’s such a weird episode structurally that I couldn’t do much about it.
Oh, fine, there’s another Fleischer short after the jump… plus a Superman animated surprise from an even more obscure source.
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Story by Rich Fogel and Paul Dini
Teleplay by Dwayne McDuffie
Directed by Dan Riba
Originally Aired: March 10 & 17, 2002
DVD: Justice League, Season One
Summary: In the DCAU equivalent of a buddy cop movie, Flash and Green Lantern battle against a mentally-enhanced gorilla who wants to destroy his technologically-advanced home city.
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Written by Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer
Directed by Curt Geda
Original Airdate – September 27th, 1997
DVD: Superman: The Animated Series, Volume Two
Summary: A space rescue mission leads Superman to recover a childhood pet of Lois’ who was sent on a space mission. However, the monkey’s survival has come at a potnetially disastrous cost.
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Written By: Rich Fogel
Directed By: Toshihiko Masuda
Original Airdate September 13th, 1997
DVD: Superman: The Animated Series, Volume Two
Summary : When Superman agrees to race The Flash around the world for charity, a pair of inventors scheme to use the race to their own advantage by creating a device that controls the weather.
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Written by Stan Berkowitz
Directed by Butch Lukic
Original Airdates: February 24th & March 3rd, 2002
DVD: Justice League, Season One
Summary: A space accident causes J’onn and Superman to be captured and forced to fight in a gladiatorial arena for the pleasure of their captor, Mongul. If you were paying attention to films that won Academy Awards around the time this aired, all of this should seem pretty familiar.
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