Batman & Bill Page #2

Synopsis: Documentary about the uncredited co-creator of Batman, Bill Finger.
 
IMDB:
8.2
Year:
2017
93 min
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a research project,

you can't possibly know how much

or how little

you're going to find.

In this case, I was going

into the Batman book

knowing that there were secrets

that hadn't been

widely discussed,

but I had no way to know it

was a lot more than that.

So this story, for me,

was uncovering a

big superhero secret

that should have been

blown wide decades ago.

(car horn honks)

In New York in 1965,

was the first

official Comic Con,

and the reason that

this is considered

the first official Comic Con

is because it was the first time

that professionals showed up,

not just fans in

a hotel basement

with some back issues.

This was historic,

this was a big deal.

They didn't know it at the time,

but it was a big deal.

There were 200 of us

at that Comic Con.

And this place was so sketchy.

And we got there,

and my mother freaked

when she saw where we were.

There was literally

a guy drunk, unconscious

on the floor in the lobby,

and roaches on the walls,

and she just said,

"We're out of here,

we're leaving."

The hotel itself,

a few months later,

actually, much of it collapsed.

Luckily, it didn't do so

while we were in there,

but none of us was

particularly surprised

to hear that the Broadway

Central had collapsed.

My mom finally said,

"Okay, we'll stay,

and you can go up to this

comic book convention,

but don't touch anything."

And as we went through the bar,

we saw Otto Binder

sitting there at the bar

with another guy drinking.

And we go in and we sit

down on the stools.

And he goes, "What are

you boys drinking?"

We ordered our Cokes.

And Otto turns to me and Bob,

he said, "Boys, how

would you like to meet

the creator of Batman?"

And, like, our jaws dropped,

our eyes had to be wide open,

and we figured we were

going to meet Bob Kane,

which was the only

name we ever saw

on a comic book, it

was always in a box

with a big "O" for Bob.

And Otto said, "Fellas,

meet Bill Finger."

So in 1965 at this Comic Con,

in this dingy hotel in New York,

Bill Finger made what

is probably his first

and maybe his only

public appearance,

and he appeared on a panel

with three other

comics' creators.

At this panel,

Bill was introduced

by the moderator whose

name was Jerry Bails.

And perhaps we'll hear some...

Jerry was the fan,

who in 1964 or so,

figured out that it could not be

just this one guy, Bob Kane,

writing and drawing

every Batman story every month.

So Jerry did some

detective work of his own.

He wrote letters

to DC Comics saying,

"Who's really doing all this?"

And in those days, companies

would write you back

with a personal letter.

And the name that he saw

more than any other

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