Set during Batman's first year as Batman, the story is an adaptation of The Long Halloween, along with the Joker's Red Hood origin from The Killing Joke.
As Harvey Dent and Jim Gordon attempt to take down the Red Hood Gang and the man they suspect to be the Red Hood, Bruce Wayne meets a woman named Talia. When the Holiday Killer begins to kill suspected members of the Red Hood Gang, Batman, Gordon, and Dent search for the dangerous killer.
