Batman & Bill Page #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
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
"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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