Best of the blog 2020

This blog launched on 2/19/08.

Every February 19, I share the posts of the previous 12 months that I feel are most worth a look.

This year's roll call:

• Finger family mysteries: Bill's mothers and "sisters"
• first time lapse of the 9.5-block route Jerry Siegel ran to show Joe Shuster his idea for Superman (Cleveland, 1933)
• a stranger willing to hear me out on the Black Lives Matter movement
• first official credit for various DC superheroes
• quirky daily activities for families during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders (or anytime)
• RIP Henry Grimes (jazz pioneer and one of the people profiled in my book Vanished: True Stories of the Missing)
• oral history of 1990s drama My So-Called Life
• interview with the actress who co-starred in director Steven Spielberg's first commercial release, the short film Amblin' (1968)
• RIP Emily Manasch (Bill Finger's half-sister, who died in 2018)