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This one…is gonna cause a stir. Maybe.
You all know who Bob Kane is right? Credited with creating Batman. Ring a bell?
Yeah , well screw that guy.
I’d be more terse but there might be kids reading and I wanna set the story straight. Bob Kane drew a guy with a cape. Bill Finger added everything else to make him Batman. To include his rogues gallery and supporting characters and story. Bob Kane stole it all. That’s right, he STOLE it. Out-right.
I’m going to point you to a documentary available on Hulu to watch, it’s called Batman & Bill and you can watch it here.
Go ahead and watch it.
I’ll wait.
For a little history, here we go…Batman is a superhero comic book published by DC Comics. The character was created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, and debuted in the 27th issue of the comic book Detective Comics on March 30, 1939. He is one of the most recognized superheroes on the planet.
The title, for the documentary, is a play on words for Bob Kane’s farce of a biography Batman & Me. Probably because Bob was a known liar and art thief. It is very well known throughout the comics world that Bob did not draw his own stuff. He hired other people to do it, then signed it to claim ownership. I remember hearing a story from Will Eisner where he would actively try to avoid Kane at the San Diego Comicon because Will simply couldn’t stand his arrogance.
As you can see from watching the documentary, there is ample evidence that came to light in the publishing of Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-creator of Batman by Marc Tyler Nobleman. This is the book that opened the floodgates of evidence from all over, industry professionals and artists, that Bob Kane was not the sole creator of Batman, but it was, in fact, Bill Finger that created most of what we know about the Bruce Wayne/Batman mythos. This prompted Don Argos to create the documentary which explores the creation of the Batman, how Bob Kane was accepted as the sole creator, and how Bill Finger was never credited for his work despite creating much of the Batman mythos. To further prove it, in 2015, DC Entertainment and the family of Bill Finger reached an agreement that recognizes Finger’s contributions to the Batman family and now receives on-screen credit for the co-creation of Batman in DC films and television projects.
Now, this comes from my perspective as an artist and creator but that just couldn’t happen to me. I would have had Bob Kane’s head on a platter (so-to-speak) because that is probably the most egregious thing you can do to a fellow creative person. For 75 years, to completely cut them out of any rights and money (SOMUCHMONEY!) attributed to something I had a massive part of creating…c’mon. That’s just wrong on every level. That’s straight evil.
If it were up to me, Bob Kane would be stripped from the history books and replaced by Bill Finger throughout Batman’s publishing and onscreen history.
