Bill Finger

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1914 age 0

   Born

2. 1974 age 59

   Died

3. 1989 age 59

   CreditBatmanscreenwriter

4. 1993 age 59

   CreditBatman: Mask of the Phantasmscreenwriter

5. 1997 age 59

   CreditBatman & Robinscreenwriter

6. 2004 age 59

   CreditCatwomanscreenwriter

7. 2008 age 59

   CreditThe Dark Knightscreenwriter

• BMBenjamin Melniker5 titles
• BKBob Kane4 titles
• MUMichael Uslan3 titles
• NKNicky Katt2 titles
• MGMichael Gough2 titles
• PHPat Hingle2 titles
• HZHans Zimmer1 title
• AFAnne Fletcher1 title
• BBBruce Berman1 title
• RMRalf Moeller1 title

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• ...[Bob Kane] had an idea for a character called "Batman", and he'd like me to see the drawings. I went over to Kane's, and he had drawn a character who looked very much like Superman with kind of ... reddish tights, I believe, with boots ... no gloves, no gauntlets ... with a small domino mask, swinging on a rope. He had two stiff wings that were sticking out, looking like bat wings. And under it was a big sign ... BATMAN.

  Bill Finger, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Bruce Wayne's first name came from Robert Bruce, the Scottish patriot. Wayne, being a playboy, was a man of gentry. I searched for a name that would suggest colonialism. I tried Adams, Hancock ... then I thought of Mad Anthony Wayne.

  Bill Finger, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I knew many homosexuals but I certainly didn’t think of Batman in those terms. I thought of it in terms of … Frank Merriwell and Dick Merriwell, his half-brother, who was the kid he was taking care of. … In America we always talk about the Western hero and the pioneer kind of man—the Davy Crockett types—as being loners. They’re never really. They always have a sidekick. … Certainly there’s no homosexual relationship. It’s just part of the American syndrome. … It was just that the author realized that you’ve gotta have somebody to talk to. Sherlock Holmes had Watson—were they homosexuals? Baloney. You just can’t have your hero walking around thinking aloud all the time. He’d be ready for the men in white coats after a time. So we created a junior Watson and that’s all [Robin] was.

  Bill Finger, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Robin was an outgrowth of a conversation I had with Bob. As I said, Batman was a combination of Fairbanks and Sherlock Holmes. Holmes had his Watson. The thing that bothered me was that Batman didn't have anyone to talk to, and it got a little tiresome always having him thinking. I found that as I went along Batman needed a Watson to talk to. That's how Robin came to be. Bob called me over and said he was going to put a boy in the strip to identify with Batman. I thought it was a great idea"

  Bill Finger, CC BY-SA 4.0