Jerry Bails’s 1965 article was not the first time the creation of Batman was addressed in print. Almost twenty years earlier, in Real Fact Comics #5 (1946), DC had published a different telling—except it was a preposterous fake.
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According to that story, Bob first drew Batman with the help of a (suitably muscular) friend modeling a now-familiar costume . . . made by Bob’s mother.
You can imagine what Bill Finger thought of this: the same as you.
Only more venomously.
1/22/17 addendum: I inadvertently covered this again, in slightly more detail.
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You can imagine what Bill Finger thought of this: the same as you.
Only more venomously.
1/22/17 addendum: I inadvertently covered this again, in slightly more detail.
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