Tim Sale was an American comic artist best known for his long collaboration with writer Jeph Loeb on a series of colour-themed superhero graphic novels — Batman: The Long Halloween, Batman: Dark Victory, Daredevil: Yellow, Spider-Man: Blue and Hulk: Gray. Sale’s stylised, heavily shadowed compositions owed a particular debt to Alex Toth and Bernie Krigstein; his work on The Long Halloween was a major visual reference for Christopher Nolan’s Batman films.