Bill Finger

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1914-02-08

Deathday 1974-01-18 (59 years old)

Place of Birth Denver, Colorado, USA

Bill Finger

Biography

Milton "Bill" Finger (February 8, 1914 – January 18, 1974) was an American comic strip, comic book, film and television writer who was the co-creator (with Bob Kane) of the DC Comics character Batman. Despite making major (sometimes, signature) contributions as an innovative writer, visionary mythos/world builder and illustration architect, Finger (and other creators of his era) was often relegated to ghostwriter status on many comics—including 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 "50–75% of all the creativity in Batman," for decades he publicly denied Finger had been anything more than a subcontractor executing Kane's 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 Nobleman's research uncovered previously unknown heirs. At the urging of Nobleman, the online comics fan community and others, Finger's granddaughter revived the fight to restore his lost legacy, which continued for years. In 2015, DC Comics's parent company conditionally agreed to recognize Finger's intellectual property claim as co-creator 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 CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Writer

Bat-Family

as Characters

Lanterns

as Comic Book

Dynamic Duo

as Characters

2026
The Batman - Part II

as Characters

2024
Joker: Folie à Deux

as Characters

2024
The Penguin

as Characters

2024
2023
2023
Merry Little Batman

as Characters

2023
2023
The Flash

as Characters

2023
Gotham Knights

as Characters

2022
2022
The Batman

as Characters

2022
Batwheels

as Characters

2021
2020
2019
Reign of the Supermen

as Characters

2019
Joker

as Characters

2019
Batwoman

as Characters

2018
Batman Ninja

as Characters

2018
The Death of Superman

as Characters

2018
Titans

as Characters

2017
The Lego Batman Movie

as Characters

2017
2017
Justice League

as Characters

2017
Batman vs. Two-Face

as Characters

2017
Justice League Dark

as Characters

2016
2013
Teen Titans Go!

as Characters

2010
Young Justice

as Characters

1968
The Green Slime

as Writer

1967
Snow Devils

as Screenplay

1966
Batman

as Writer

1965
Alyas Batman at Robin

as Characters

Crew

2022
Peacemaker

as Thanks

2021
Superman & Lois

as Thanks

2020
DC's Stargirl

as Thanks

Creator

1999
Batman Beyond

as Creator

Actor

2017
Batman & Bill

as Self (archive footage)