So whenever I can talk about this, I will." "I will always be talking about it … There are still Batman fans who don't know. If he had to break it down into numbers, he says, Batman is 98 percent Finger and 1 percent Kane, with the other percent coming "from the ether." Most everything we know or can name about the Batman character, Nobleman says, came from Finger. What he discovered is that the fans of the comic book were interested in the backstory and in seeing Finger get his just due. "We want to support giving this guy the credit he never got in his life."Īnd to Nobleman, Finger's new co-creator credit still isn't credit enough. "The first time that I went to Comic-Con for the book … I did not know what to expect," Nobleman told television critics Saturday. Which is fine, says Nobleman, with the character's most devoted fans. "Without Bill Finger," Nobleman says in the film, "there is no Batman." DC Comics and DC Entertainment apparently agree: After a series of negotiations with the late Finger's estate, they now list Finger as Batman's co-creator. In his book, Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman, and his May Hulu documentary, Batman & Bill, Marc Tyler Nobleman insists that Kane could not have created the character without substantial help from Bill Finger, a writer who never got the credit Nobleman thinks he deserved. Many fans of the Batman comic books know that Bob Kane created the character - but that may not be the end of the story. PASADENA, Calif. - Did Batman have two dads?
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