On October 12, 1966, the ABC television network premiered the first part of The Watchmaker's Crimes , Chapter 45 of the hit Batman series starring Adam West . In one of his rooms for customer viewing in New York, Bill Finger held his tears to see his name on the screen next to his friend and also screenwriter Charles Sinclair . It was the first time he saw his signature on something related to Batman despite being his co-creator.
He would never see her in a comic, despite writing the hero for 25 years, bringing his dark essence , the murder of his parents, the city of Gotham, the batcave and the batmobile and characters such as Robin, Commissioner Gordon, Catwoman, Two Faces , the Scarecrow, Enigma or The Penguin.
Finger was able to watch the episode on a color television thanks to the contacts of his friend Sinclair, who was also his neighbor in New York and who refused to let his colleague watch the episode on the tiny black and white television in his apartment. Precisely in front of her Finger would die eight years later, on January 18, 1974, alone and ruined. He was 59 years old and his body was buried in a mass grave , destined for eternal oblivion. Or that was what everyone believed.
The writer Marc Tyler Nobleman (Conneticutt, 1972) refused to accept that it was impossible for Finger's merit to be recognized in the creation of one of the great fictional figures of the twentieth century. Nor was he entirely sure that there was that contract that, according to DC Comics, owner of Batman, gave the authorship of the character "in perpetuity" to Bob Kane , that boy smarter than hunger who, according to the official version, sold the character to the publishing house in 1939 after devising it in just one weekend to rebuild the success of Superman.
"Everyone in the comic book industry knew the importance of Bill Finger in Batman's story. It wasn't that people doubted that, but that nobody took the time to try to change the fact that Finger never received credit. that he deserved . People said 'it would be right for him to be recognized', but then he didn't fight and fight to change that. But I'm not like that, "Tyler Nobleman, protagonist of the documentary Batman and Bill , explains to THE WORLD. broadcast on Saturday at 18.05 hours exclusively the TCM channel coinciding with the Batman Day that commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Dark Knight worldwide.
Bill Finger was born in 1914, and never had luck in life. He suffered the Spanish flu, scarlet fever and, in his teens, the crack of 29. He wanted to be a writer, but he spent his time selling shoes. He didn't know anyone who could give him a chance to show his talent ... until he met a cartoonist Bob Kane at a party. Shy, prone to get carried away by the situation, Finger agreed to help Kane in the creation of Batman. Subsequently, he also made no mistake to appear as black in the adventures of the character. All the stories of Batman were signed by Bob Kane although these were from dozens of authors such as Jerry Robinson , Dick Sprang or Sheldon Moldoff .
Bob Kane died in 1998, a millionaire and recognized . In his autobiography, published during the batmanía caused by the premiere of Tim Burton's film in 1989, he recognized that his "friend" should have had more credit, that perhaps his name should appear with his. But he did nothing. No one did anything.
That's why Tyler Nobleman decided to turn it into his crusade. He first published a book, Bill The Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator Of Batman (2012). Then he started a campaign to get Finger to be credited as co-creator. But for that he needed an heir. He searched and searched and found Fred, Finger's son. But he had died in 1992. The road seemed to end there. "But then I met Athena," he explains. Finger's lost granddaughter.
In a world of superheroes fighting for good, no one had stirred against the injustice that Bill suffered. But Nobleman's campaign has a happy ending. David beat Goliath and DC Comics , belonging to the WarnerMedia conglomerate, agreed that in the movie Batman vs. Superman: the dawn of justice and in all future appearances of the Crusader of the Cloak in any medium, comics included, the legend: Batman It is a creation of Bob Kane with Bill Finger .
"I am very happy that justice has been done. I started this in 2006, so it has been about 13 years of my life . The childhood of my two children has grown in parallel. I am very proud and happy for me, for the Finger family and for the fans, because they have found that also in real life, if the right thing is done, there is a reward. "
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