Bill Finger

Milton Bill Finger February 8 1914 January 18 1974 was an American comic strip comic book film and television writer who was the cocreator with Bob Kane of the DC Comics character Batman Despite making major sometimes signature contributions as an innovative writer visionary mythosworld builder and illustration architect Finger and other creators of his era was often relegated to ghostwriter status on many comicsincluding Batman and the original Green Lantern Alan Scott While Kane privately admitted in a 1980s audio interview with his autobiographer that Finger was responsible for 5075 of all the creativity in Batman for decades he publicly denied Finger had been anything more than a subcontractor executing Kanes ideas As a result Finger died in obscurity and poverty while the Batman brand and Kane amassed international fame and wealth In the 2000s Finger biographer Marc Tyler Noblemans research uncovered previously unknown heirs At the urging of Nobleman the online comics fan community and others Fingers granddaughter revived the fight to restore his lost legacy which continued for years In 2015 DC Comicss parent company conditionally agreed to recognize Fingers intellectual property claim as cocreator of the Batman characters and mythos officially adding his name going forward to the created by credit line Kane had gotten contractually guaranteed in 1939 Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Finger licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia