The Many Hands of Bill Finger
Moderated by Alex Grand, panelists Athena Finger, Bill Field, Lenny Schwartz and Mark Evanier. As I came in Mark was discussing meeting Bob Kane, he would also spoke about his meeting Bill Finger once. Athena spoke of Bill co-creating of Batman, the panel also went into Finger co-creating Green Lantern, Wildcat, working for Marvel on the All Winners Squad. Evanier said that Bill worked for all of the companies and did comics in all genres. They then talked about Bill’s co-writing partner Charles Sinclair and their work outside of comics. Athena talked about meeting Charles and told the story of Charles discovering Bill had died. They went over Nick Carter Detective Stories, the various TV show credits like Foreign Intrigue which had a Joker esk character in it, the Web, 77 Sunset, Why We Fight, spaghetti Western and Sci-Fi movies like The Green Slime, Lorenzo Semple Jr. and The 1966 Batman TV show, getting Bill’s name on first in the credits and how Sinclair got a color TV so that Bill could see the episode, how Bill began using William for his first name on movies and how he hated his real first name Milton.
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