The clever Michael Uslan
(producer of every movie with Batman in it since 1989) had a brainstorm to hunt for a fun—and pivotal—piece of cultural history.
Bill Finger named Batman’s city after seeing a phone book listing for “Gotham Jewelers,” and Michael found a February 1938 ad for the company in a digital newspaper archive. Here’s another, from June, from the same Yonkers, NY paper:
Bill Finger named Batman’s city after seeing a phone book listing for “Gotham Jewelers,” and Michael found a February 1938 ad for the company in a digital newspaper archive. Here’s another, from June, from the same Yonkers, NY paper:
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