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In 1992, Eclipse Enterprises produced a trading card series called "Famous Comic Book Creators." Bill Finger was included—his firs...

In November, the coffee table book 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking by Paul Levitz came out. © Jeremiah Wilson I...

In the recently distributed winter 2010 issue of The Key Reporter , which is the national publication of Phi Beta Kappa, which is the premie...

A school in Houston planted a tree in 1984, but didn't use any soil or water. And it's indoors. They painted a trunk on a main wall ...

Some superheroes vanish—and I don' t just mean ones with the power of invisibility. For a large project, I'm looking for four actors...

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...

Not long ago (up until the 1800s, to be precise), some people did not "believe" in giant squid. Sailors swore they saw such creatu...

A recent Groupon offer included a short feature called “The Groupon Guide to: Medieval Weaponry.” From that title alone I should have been c...

On 11/17/10, I made my first visit to Stillmeadow Elementary in Stamford, Connecticut. I was told that teachers there had been using my cart...

A student (4th grade, I believe) from a Houston school I presented at friend requested me afterward. I told him I appreciate that but do not...

The Cypress-Fairbanks school district in Houston holds an annual contest that gets kids excited about reading, and got me excited, too: Name...

Batman was not the second DC superhero (after Superman) or the first non-powered superhero or the first masked superhero or even the first n...

When researching a book, I keep track of literally every person I talk to in my quest for information. So as I document my subject, I must s...

A big focus of my school presentations is the importance of persistence in the face of rejection. After one presentation, the principal wrot...

Montowese Elementary, North Haven, Connecticut: Note: This is not a ranking but rather a list in order of discovery.

Donna Bowman Bratton kindly interviewed me about Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman and nonfiction in general.

Early Batman artist/ambassador of comics Jerry Robinson on Bill : “Very soft, kind. Naïve, as most of us were. Not outgoing. Reserved but ve...

Fourteen years ago today, on 11/21/96, I did my first book signing at a bookstore, for The Felix Activity Book . (My first book signing eve...

The non-comics professional writing Bill did included scripts for radio, television (both drama and animation), low-budget science fiction m...

Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman has been nominated for a 2010-2011 Prairie Pasque Award (grades 3-5) , which is run through the Sou...

Bill Finger is best (un)known for co-creating Batman, but he contributed lasting elements to the Superman mythos as well. Though kryptonite,...

After my kickoff school visit of the year, a Connecticut paper ran two photos, which the school was most kind to scan and email:

From 2001 to 2010, I had the honor of volunteering for an enriching New York City program called Authors Read Aloud (part of an organi...

Because of Batman’s physical prowess, Bill sometimes jokingly called him "Acro-Batman." In at least one instance (see Batman: Th...

At Simply Donna, I enjoyed a post focusing on authors' notes in books for young people, which, now that I think about it, is a blog topi...