Before I began researching Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman, it was not known among comics people that Bill Finger had married a second time (after divorcing Portia).
I found his second wife, Lyn Simmons, in June 2006. She had three children. One is named Steve.
Oddly, Lyn had only one photo of Bill—and not a good one.
Steve, however, had a great one. Only he didn’t know where it was. That was July 2006. He found it…in March 2007.
But it was worth the wait.
The photo is included in the author’s note of Bill the Boy Wonder. It was probably the clearest (and certainly the quirkiest) of the eleven “new” photos I found.
Adding to this excitement, three coincidences surrounded Steve:
I found his second wife, Lyn Simmons, in June 2006. She had three children. One is named Steve.
Steve, however, had a great one. Only he didn’t know where it was. That was July 2006. He found it…in March 2007.
But it was worth the wait.
The photo is included in the author’s note of Bill the Boy Wonder. It was probably the clearest (and certainly the quirkiest) of the eleven “new” photos I found.
Adding to this excitement, three coincidences surrounded Steve:
- Lyn (who was living in California at the time) had been visiting on the East Coast (where I live) and had flown home the day I found her.
- I lived in Connecticut at the time…specifically, as it turned out, in the same town as Steve. In other words, the best photo of Bill Finger I uncovered during a many-month search was five minutes from me the entire time.
- Steve was a businessman, but he had published several children’s books…with Charlesbridge, the publisher who would go on to acquire Bill the Boy Wonder in 2010.
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