Who Created The Dark Knight Detective?

[CBR News]

ROBOT 6's Tom Bondurant looks at the tricky argument of how to properly credit Bob Kane and Bill Finger when discussing the creation of Batman, especially when viewed from the perspective of today's creators' rights debate.


Full article here.

[RohanRiderX]

ya know what, yes bob gets the legal credit, but if your a comic reading batman fan, you know that bill finger was there too and really i feel like thats what matters people remember him for it

[Libaax]

ya know what, yes bob gets the legal credit, but if your a comic reading batman fan, you know that bill finger was there too and really i feel like thats what matters people remember him for it

Yeah the legal credit is meaningless if us fans remember Bill Finger was also a creator of Batman, deserve his credit with the fans. So he wont be forgotten for what he did with Batman.

[Lorendiac]

This reminds me of something . . .

Some time ago, back when DC still hosted its own discussion boards on its own website, I saw a fan assert that Bob Kane was the original artist, and the original writer, of dozens of Golden Age Batman stories.

I asked where he had gotten that idea. I believe I also mentioned that, as far as I know from what I've read, Bob Kane has never claimed to have written any Batman scripts in his entire life!

Other people chimed in while that thread lasted. None of them had ever heard of Bob Kane claiming to be a veteran comic book writer, either!

My best guess was that the guy who made that claim ("Bob was the original artist AND writer of Batman's old stories!") had either been badly misled by the "created by Bob Kane" credit in some of his Batman comic books, or else was parroting the words of someone else who, himself, had been badly misled by that. But just because Bob had negotiated to get such a credit is not the same thing as Bob running around telling people: "I used to write AND draw lots of Batman stories, single-handed, in the good old days!"

[spider-drummer]

from what i remember hearing from a batman podcast i listen to Bob Kane and Bill Finger Co-created Batman. but the name Batman (or at that time called The Bat-Man) and the design was all mostly Finger. with Bob Kane after DC coming to him wanting to make his hero called Wing-Man, and was going be the opposite of superman with Blonde Hair, Red Tights, and a Blue Cape. When Bill Finger came into the picture (who was a fan of film noir heroes like The Shadow and The phantom) asked Kane to make his costume Gray and black and give him a cowl instead of a "Robin" like mask. with think i remember hearing that Bob Kane came up with bat ear on the cowl looking at a Nat Geo magazine and the Batman logo on the chest.

[Vidocq]

from what i remember hearing from a batman podcast i listen to Bob Kane and Bill Finger Co-created Batman. but the name Batman (or at that time called The Bat-Man) and the design was all mostly Finger. with Bob Kane after DC coming to him wanting to make his hero called Wing-Man, and was going be the opposite of superman with Blonde Hair, Red Tights, and a Blue Cape. When Bill Finger came into the picture (who was a fan of film noir heroes like The Shadow and The phantom) asked Kane to make his costume Gray and black and give him a cowl instead of a "Robin" like mask. with think i remember hearing that Bob Kane came up with bat ear on the cowl looking at a Nat Geo magazine and the Batman logo on the chest.

If I remember correctly, Bob Kane came up with ''Batman'' and was adamant to make it like Zorro (Rich guy transforms into a hero) and Bill Finger created the name ''Bruce Wayne'' and the grey-blue look etc. He pretty much created or co-created everything after that. The Dead parents origin was apparently a collaboritve effort, if you believe Bob Kane.