HALLELUJAH!
About damn time.
Yeah, Batman is who he is because Finger was involved with his development. This credit is long overdue.
Rumors say Finger might be getting credit in comics as well
Wasn't Kane's credit contractually mandated? Seriously, Bob Kane is, like, the only Golden Age creator who actually managed to negotiate a deal to his own advantage. Now we just need to give Jerry Robinson his due credit for Robin and the Joker.
It's because he threw Siegel and Shuster to the wolves to get a better contract for himself. He is literally like a comic book villain.
Seriously, Bob Kane is, like, the only Golden Age creator who actually managed to negotiate a deal to his own advantage.
No, not really. Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit, got a rather good deal of ownership over his creations around that same period.
edited 22nd Sep '15 6:07:49 PM by NapoleonDeCheese
I know Kane made pretty good use of the studio system, by which he provided DC with Batman material until his retirement in the '60's (which made way for Carmine Infantino, and then Neal Adams and Denny O'Neil). All that stuff signed "By Bob Kane" and really done by Dick Sprang, Jerry Robinson, Sheldon Moldoff, etc. It's the way that kind of studio works, of course (and still does, to a greater or lesser degree, to this day; Garfield, for instance, hasn't been drawn by Jim Davis for years) but the fact that those guys were uncredited for so long leaves a bad taste in the mouth...even if it was entirely legal and they agreed to it.
...I'm surprised this thread hasn't broken 100. Batman's just as popular as Spider Man.
edited 23rd Sep '15 7:56:58 AM by Soble
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!
I just recently read through Grant Morrisons Batman run for the first time this past month, and I'm about ton read through it again. I have to say, while I was ambivalent about the few things I had heard about it beforehand, I ended up largely loving it. Not that it didn't have its weak points, but the good parts were soooo good.
edited 28th Sep '15 6:25:15 PM by GrandmasterKiramidHead
Anyone reading the new Eternal series? Cass has finally been reintroduced.
CASS CASS CASS CASS
the most adorable batgirl of them all
ophelia, you're breaking my heart
Now we just need a League of Batgirls comic book, starring Barbara, Cassandra, Stephanie, and Harper Row (who I know isn't a Batgirl, but still deserves to be a part of the League of Batgirls).
I would rather it just be steph Cass and harper. Babs can continue kissing every male in the batfamily.
...she's kissed Dick Grayson and? Who else? I have no idea what the hell you are talking about.
Also: who the fuck cares who she kisses?
edited 26th Oct '15 4:14:33 PM by alliterator
Luke Fox. And I don't care I just find it funny that they made a big deal out of her being with luke and then the next month she is kissing dick.
I just don't want her on a book with the other bat females because I feel she would take all the focus and leave harper, cass, and steph in the lurch.
As with Dick Grayson being Robin, the general public, if they know anything at all about Batgirl, likely think of Batgirl as being Barbara Gordon. That's usually going to be the identity they default to when translating the character to other media.
wow that was a really badly written dick is the newest batgirl issue. it's almost like I was reading pre-flashpoint dick grayson. the one who had sex with barbara right after he found out she was paralyzed and then invited her to his and starfire's wedding the next morning. like why did they make dick such a dick? did they think it would make us ship babs/luke more? oh well at least grayson is written better in like 5 others books a month.
they don't but it's a carryover from the 30's.
I don't see why they didn't update his name with the reboot.
Then again... "Rick Grayson?" ...somehow sounds even weirder. I'll have to sleep on this.
because its ingrained in our culture that it's bruce wayne and his young ward dick grayson. you could have richard grayson but its kinda a mouthful for a younger guy and ricky is just.... no.
