@xwraith said:
@jaken7 said:
@xwraith said:
Sad but true fact: DC is legally prevented from giving Bill Finger credit for creating Batman.
Yup. Kane's last dig at a man who was in a grave at the time (if I'm recalling my dates correctly).
You do. Kane outlived Finger by 24 years (he died in 1998).
Check this sh%t out.
"Bill was disheartened by the lack of major accomplishments in his career. He felt that he had not used his creative potential to its fullest and that success had passed him by."
- Bob Kane
"It seemed to me that Bill Finger has given out the impression that he and not myself created the 'Batman, as well as Robin and all the other leading villains and characters. This statement is fraudulent and entirely untrue.
The trouble with being a 'ghost' writer or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without 'credit'. However, if one wants the 'credit', then one has to cease being a 'ghost' or follower and become a leader or innovator"
- Bob Kane, 1965
What a pompous, narcissistic, egotistical, delusional, lying asshat.
At least his conscience started to get the better of him in later years.
"In those days it was like, one artist and he had his name over it [the comic strip] — the policy of DC in the comic books was, if you can't write it, obtain other writers, but their names would never appear on the comic book in the finished version. So Bill never asked me for it [the byline] and I never volunteered — I guess my ego at that time. And I felt badly, really, when he [Finger] died."
- Bob Kane, 1989
Here's Jerry Robinson's (who also worked with Kane and Finger and had no small part in creating Batman himself) view on it.
"Bob made him more insecure, because while he slaved working on Batman, he wasn't sharing in any of the glory or the money that Bob began to make, which is why... [he was] going to leave [Kane's employ]. ... [Kane] should have credited Bill as co-creator, because I know; I was there. ... That was one thing I would never forgive Bob for, was not to take care of Bill or recognize his vital role in the creation of Batman. As with Siegel and Shuster, it should have been the same, the same co-creator credit in the strip, writer and artist."
- Jerry Robinson, 2005
I know I've seen all those quotes before, but I had mostly forgotten them. Puts things in perspective, doesn't it?
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