Bill Finger finally shown some love

[Yoc]

I just read this on AV Club -
DC Entertainment to finally give credit to influential Batman writer Bill Finger

Only a few decades late but it's better than a Bat-Mite in the eye.

-Yoc

[mopee167]

A credit for Bill Finger is long overdue. But, if he were alive today, I'm not at all sure he would recognize the current iteration of Batman as the character he helped create.

[erwin-k]

Long, long, long overdue.

Tho frankly I've liked the character less & less since the Frank Miller version began to get traction.

[Mr. Izaj]

 Although Bill Finger began getting recognition for his contributions to Batman and to comics in general as early as 1970 (thanks in large part to Jim Steranko), it wasn't until recent years that his contributions to Batman and to comics were fully acknowledged. First with DC Comics' acknowledging his work as one of the Fifty Who Made DC Great. Then with the reprinting of - and getting credit for - many of his Golden Age DC stories in various DC Comics Archives (and a few of his Timely contributions in the Marvel Masterworks as well). Not to mention the posthumous awards he has received - the inductions in the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame and the Will Eisner Hall of Fame - and the establishment of the Bill Finger Award honoring lifetime achievement for writers in comics.

 But much of this recognition is in the comic industry and among comics fans. But outside the industry and comics fandom, Bill Finger is not well known to John Q. Public at large. With DC Entertainment acknowledging Finger's contribution the creation of Batman and his comic book work with the second season of Gotham and the forthcoming Batman Vs. Superman; the Dawn of Justice, Bill Finger will finally get the public recognition he deserves.

 I should also add in addition to his contributions to the creation of Batman and many of the supporting characters and villains, he co-created two other notable superheroes for DC, the original Green Lantern (with Martin Nodell) and Wildcat (with Irwin Hasen). In addition, he wrote the first of the two All-Winners Squad stories and a Seven Soldiers of Victory story among other contributions to comics in general.

[JonTheScanner]

Although Bill Finger began getting recognition for his contributions to Batman and to comics in general as early as 1970 (thanks in large part to Jim Steranko), it wasn't until recent years that his contributions to Batman and to comics were fully acknowledged.

'Twas before that. Jerry Bails wrote an article "A Finger in Every Plot" for the Sept '65issue of Capa alpha.  And these opinions here, and I believe probably elsewhere, got a response from Bob Kane himself published in an issue of Batmania.  He "debunked" all the "rumors" that he didn't produce most Batman stories single-handedly.  So I think it must have been pretty well believed by fans by the mid-sixties.

[bcholmes]

I enjoyed Marc Tylor Nobleman and Ty Templeton's book, Bill, the Boy Wonder. It has a fairly in-depth (and unapologetically pro-Finger) analysis of Finger's role.

One of the things I found most interesting about the book is how Templeton was able to draw a bunch of images of Bill Finger, when only a small number of photos of his remain. Nobleman managed to unearth a few more than were known about before his research, but he's not a very commonly-photographed guy. Because of that, most of the time people try to include a picture of Finger in a blog entry or web article, they usually use Ty's drawings of him.

BCing you