Milton "Bill" Finger was an American comic strip, comic book, film and television writer who was the co-creator of the DC Comics character Batman.
25 Facts About Bill Finger
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At the urging of Nobleman, the online comics fan community and others, Bill Finger's granddaughter revived the fight to restore his lost legacy, which continued for years.
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Bill Finger was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1914 to an Ashkenazi Jewish family.
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Bill Finger's father, Louis Finger, was born in Austria-Hungary in 1890 and emigrated to the US in 1907.
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Bill Finger's stepmother Tessie was born in 1892 in New York City.
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The family moved to The Bronx, New York City, where during the Great Depression Louis Bill Finger was forced to close his tailor shop.
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Bill Finger graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in The Bronx in 1933.
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An aspiring writer and a part-time shoe salesman, Bill Finger joined Bob Kane's nascent studio in 1938 after having met Kane, a fellow DeWitt Clinton alumnus, at a party.
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Bill Finger had two stiff wings that were sticking out, looking like bat wings.
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Bill Finger offered such suggestions as giving the character a cowl instead of the domino mask, a cape instead of wings, adding gloves, and removing the red sections from the original costume.
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Bill Finger later said his suggestions were influenced by Lee Falk's popular The Phantom, a syndicated newspaper comic strip character with which Kane was familiar, and that he devised the name Bruce Wayne for the character's secret identity.
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Batman proved a breakout hit, and Bill Finger went on to write many of the early Batman stories, including making major contributions to the Joker character.
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Bill Finger wrote the debut issue of Batman's self-titled comic book series which introduced the Joker and the Catwoman.
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Bill Finger was one of the writers of the syndicated Batman comic strip from 1943 to 1946.
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Bill Finger wrote for other companies, including Fawcett Comics, Quality Comics and Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics.
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Bill Finger brought in a playing card, which we used for a couple of issues for him [the Joker] to use as his playing card.
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In that first meeting when I showed them that sketch of the Joker, Bill Finger said it reminded him of Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs.
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Bill Finger can be credited and Bob himself, we all played a role in it.
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Bill Finger finished that first script from my outline of the persona and what should happen in the first story.
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Bill Finger wrote the script of that, so he really was co-creator, and Bob and I did the visuals, so Bob was.
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Bill Finger said he created the villain as a caricature of the aristocratic type, because "stuffy English gentlemen" reminded him of emperor penguins.
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Additionally, Bill Finger did receive credit for his work for National's sister company, All-American Publications, during that time.
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In September 2015, DC Entertainment announced Bill Finger would receive credit on the 2016 superhero film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and the second season of Gotham, following a deal between the Bill Finger family and DC.
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Bill Finger was posthumously inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1999.
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Bill Finger had suffered three heart attacks, in 1963,1970 and 1973.