When Bill Finger, uncredited co-creator of Batman, died in 1974, it went unrecognized in the mainstream media. But the same year, DC Comics ran two memorials in lesser-seen publications, serving as the only obituaries Bill got. I’ve shown them before and here they are again:
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written by E. Nelson Bridwell
written by Carmine Infantino
Batman #259 (12/74)
Batman in the Seventies (1999)
It’s not from a DC publication but rather from the program of the 1974 New York Comicon.
My “obituary” for Bill Finger is out in July, and it’s a long-overdue tribute to a man whose cultural impact is, without hyperbole, astronomical.
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I've got a copy of the "Famous First Edition: Batman #1." I'll have to dig it out to re-read the Bill Finger tribute.
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