This is NOT Bill

https://www.newsfromme.com/2021/04/12/the-fickle-finger-of-fate/?fbclid=IwAR0gBTB0tuEdw6_4rK03BN0JR106ZzMpJICCE3MaD-fCcVNFzJaHpxwqs3g

Most often, it's a photo of Robert Kanigher, who wrote Wonder Woman for about eight million years and who edited and often wrote DC's war comics for a very long time. When Kanigher received a posthumous Bill Finger Award

 

 

Happy 82nd anniversary to the Batman !

On March 30, 1939, Bill Finger and Bob Kane debuted “The Bat-Man” in the pages of Detective Comics #27 with a cover date of May 1939. Happy 82nd anniversary to the Batman.

 

Happy Birthday Bill Finger!

 Celebrate Bill's birthday by reading some of your favorite Batman comics.

Happy Anniversary Batman

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg84EEwHFfh/
Batman is celebrating his 79th year! Today March 30th
Check out the link for more details!

The Secret Behind Creating The Batman

http://nypost.com/2017/05/04/the-dark-secret-behind-the-creation-of-batman/

Bob Kane (above) who got all the credit.

Bill Finger 

A new documentary makes the compelling case that Bob Kane, the Caped Crusader’s acknowledged father, unjustly hogged all the credit at the expense of his collaborator, a little-known writer named Bill Finger.
“Batman & Bill,” debuting Saturday on Hulu, follows author Marc Tyler Nobleman’s obsessive quest to learn more about the mysterious Finger. Nobleman’s research was poured into the 2012 book “Bill the Boy Wonder: the Secret Co-Creator of Batman.”

Noblemania: Bill Finger: The Secret Documentary......

Noblemania: Bill Finger: The Secret Documentary on the Secret ...: * not the official title When it comes to Bill Finger, nothing comes easy. The following news has been eight years in the revealing....

A dawn of justice for Bill Finger

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/a-dawn-of-justice-for-batmans-overlooked-co-creator-bill-finger/article29273628/

 

For the first time in a movie about the Dark Knight, Bill Finger will finally get the recognition he deserves for bringing the character to life.

“It’s unprecedented in the 80-year history of the superhero that they amend the credit line of an A-list character,” says Marc Tyler Nobleman, author of Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman, a Finger biography. “If anyone deserves justice, it’s the guy who created our biggest crusader for justice.”

 

Panel from Bill the Wonder Boy: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman
(Ty Templeton/Charlesbridge Publishing)

Happy B-Day Bill

Hey Gothamites! History of the Batman wants to wish American comic book writer and Batman co-creator Bill Finger a...
Posted by History of The Batman on Monday, 8 February 2016

Batman fans asked to save real Gotham's building

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-34779151

 

It may not look as grand as Wayne Manor, but villagers hope Batman fans might be able to help them save a community building in the real Gotham.

The building in the Nottinghamshire village - historically connected to the fictional Gotham City - closed amid financial problems and is up for sale.
Campaigners are raising money to buy it and hope Batman fans will aid them.
"We all need a superhero around occasionally, don't we?," said John Anderson, who is leading fundraising

 

 

• Villagers in Gotham used to have a reputation for madness, and stories of their supposedly foolish acts were collected in various books including The Merie Tales of the Mad Men of Gotam, published in 1565.
• The American author Washington Irving became aware of the tales and repeatedly referred to Manhattan as Gotham when writing, in 1807, in the Salmagundi papers, a satirical periodical mocking New Yorkers.
• Gotham then became a popular nickname for New York City and is still used today, in shop names and notably at the Gotham Center for New York City History.
• Batman's setting in Detective Comics was initially referred to as an unnamed "teeming metropolis" and later explicitly identified as "New York".
• However, writer Bill Finger said he changed the name to Gotham City after looking through a phone book and seeing the name Gotham Jewelers.

 

Noblemania: Jubilation in response to Bill Finger credit annou...

A follow up from this post.

It's always a nice feeling when someone you admire answers your tweet/post.

Noblemania: Jubilation in response to Bill Finger credit annou...: On 9/18/15, DC Entertainment made the unprecedented announcement that, after 76 years in the shadows, Bill Finger will now be officially credit.

 

Noblemania: Insulting Bill Finger early (1946) and posthumously

Noblemania: Insulting Bill Finger early (1946) and posthumousl...:
The calculated campaign to bury Bill Finger’s role in Batman began earlier than some realize...and, in a particularly egregious manner, continued after his death.

More Joker History

Gwynplaine’s (Conrad Veidt) fixed grin and disturbing clown-like appearance was a key inspiration for comic book talents writer Bill Finger and artist Bob Kane in creating Batman’s greatest enemy, The Joker.

Taken from the 1928 film The Man Who Laughs.

 

 

#BillFinger credited for the FIRST TIME

Noblemania: Bill Finger credited on a comic book cover for the...:

Bill Finger credited on a comic book cover for the FIRST. TIME. EVER. 

Bill Finger, Michael Uslan, and the inspiration for #Gotham

Noblemania: Bill Finger, Michael Uslan, and the inspiration fo...: The clever Michael Uslan (producer of every movie with Batman in it since 1989) had a brainstorm to hunt for a fun — and pivotal — piece of...cultural history. 

Bill Finger named Batman's city after seeing a phone book listing for "Gotham Jewelers," and Michael found a February 1938 ad for the company in a digital newspaper archive. Here's another, from June, from the same Yonkers, NY paper:

what if there was no #BillFinger

From www.tytempleton.com

 



#Batman History and #comic history too!

http://dialbforblog.com/archives/389/

Here's a great website for all your Bat-History buffs and really for comic history types too! 

BATMAN -- that international champion of justice, that dreaded scourge of evil -- was created by a garment worker and a shoe salesman named, respectively, Robert Kahn and Bill Finger (both pictured). And it all started in the Bronx!

The Secret Co-Creator of Batman

Marc Tyler Nobleman is a writer who spends his time researching behind-the-scenes tales. His latest book is "Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman."

Kane to Nolan

http://geektyrant.com/news/2012/8/16/from-kane-to-nolan-seventy-years-of-batman-infographic.html