Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1044 - Bill Finger to get credit for Batman
Hi Mom,
Still in catch up mode and pulling from deep in the archives to grab unposted material.
This one gets a bit funky since I am just copying formatting off sites not designed to translate and I can't be bothered to re-format buy digging into the HTML.
But I am always happy to see writers and artists get their due -- ahem JACK KIRBY, ahem JIM STARLIN -- so this item has been on the back burner for some time.
HUZZAH!
FROM - http://io9.gizmodo.com/dc-comics-finally-gives-batman-co-creator-bill-finger-a-1586729662
DC Comics Finally Gives Batman Co-Creator Bill Finger A Cover Credit
You know, DC Comics is so often in the news for doing something weird, bad, or outrageously inappropriate, but I'm happy to applaud them when they do something right — like give Batman co-creator Bill Finger a long overdue cover credit on a Batman comic.
Bill Finger, as not even all comic fans know, helped Bob Kane create Batman in that Bob Kane drew a red-suited superhero with a domino mask that bears no resemble to the character we know today and named him Bat-Man while Finger added every single other aspect of the character that we know, including his real costume, his origin, his setting, his lack of superpowers, the Batmobile, the Joker, and more. He also wrote or ghost-wrote all the Batman comics that Kane supposedly did back in the '30s and '40s.
But you can finally see Finger's name on the cover of DC's 75th anniversary edition of Detective Comics #27, which will contain classic material from the 1939 issue and content from the recent New 52 Detective Comics #27, and will be given out free on July 23. This is the first time Finger has ever received a Batman cover credit, and it's taken a full 75 years.
The most insane part? Legally, Finger can't be credited as co-creating Batman — Bob Kane forced DC to sign a contract basically naming him the sole creator in perpetuity (which also meant that Finger never saw a dime from any of Batman's movies, toys, merchandise, etc.). How did Kane force DC to do this when so many comic creators have gotten nothing? He lied about his age, claiming that he signed his first contract with DC when he was a minor. DC wanted the lawsuit to just go away, and caved on the new one.
So even if DC Comics wanted to credit Finger, they can't. The only reason Finger's on this Detective Comics #27 special edition cover is because he was the comic's writer.
So this is beyond overdue, but it's still a sad reminder of a man who gave us 90% of arguably the greatest superhero of all time, and the struggle to give him recognition that continues to this day. If you want to know more about what a terrible, terrible person Bob Kane was, you're not going to do better than this Comics Alliance article on the subject by renown Batman-ologist Chris Sims.
[Via Comics Alliance]
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FROM - http://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-how-awful-batman-would-be-without-the-existence-1507373880
Here's how awful Batman
would be without the
existence of Bill Finger
You might not know the name Bill
Finger. He helped Bob Kane create Batman,
and when I say "helped" I
mean "basically created every aspect of Batman we know
while Bob Kane took
the credit." Artist Ty Templeton made the above cartoon to
show what
Batman would be like without Finger's work, and it's decidedly
not Bat-tastic.
Finger
not only created the Batman costume we're all familiar with, but Robin, the
Batmobile, the Batcave, the Joker, most of Batman's best-known villains, and
more. But despite doing all the heavy-lifting, Finger never gets any official
credit for his work in coming up with pretty much everything but the name of
comic's most arguably popular character. (In the comic industry, when someone
is screwed out of getting appropriate credit for their work, it's called
"getting the Finger.")
Templeton
drew the strip in support of author Marc Tyler Nobleman's
campaign to
have Google honor Finger with a Doodle on February 6th, the 100-year
anniversary of his birth. If you basically like any aspect of Batman, it might
be worth your time to send an email to proposals@google.com to
let them know you agree. And if you're on the fence, make sure you read all of
Templeton's comic here, to learn exactly how much influence Finger had on the
Caped Crusader... thankfully.
[Via Comic Book Resources]
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FROM -
http://io9.gizmodo.com/new-documentary-explores-mystery-behind-batmans-secret-1794577827
New Documentary Explores Mystery Behind Batman's Secret Co-Creator
If there’s one name that is synonymous with Batman, it’s Bob Kane. As the series’ original creator, he’s long been seen as the genius behind the Dark Knight. One documentary is shining a Bat Signal on the other man behind Bruce Wayne.
Batman and Bill is all about Bill Finger, a man long (un)credited as the co-creator of Batman and many of its key characters. Accounts of what happened differ, but the biography that inspired the documentary claims Finger was responsible for 98-percent of the creative work, which was based on Kane’s original character concept. However, Kane took credit for the entire operation.
The story of Bill Finger isn’t unknown nowadays, but for decades it was somewhat of an open secret in Hollywood. Finger died in 1974, and his family spent years fighting for DC to acknowledge his key contribution to the Batman story. Finally, in 2015, DC started crediting him as co-creator on some Batman covers, as well as for Batman TV and film projects. He’s also been inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame, and the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. Batman and Bill debuts on Hulu May 6. You can watch the first trailer below.
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Reflect and connect.
Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.
I miss you so very much, Mom.
Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.
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NEW (written 1708.27) NOTE on time: I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of your death, Mom, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of your death, Mom. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom.
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