Batman's Back - 20/20 Segment Summer of Batman 1989 Documentary (1 of 2) 

Wow. Lucky

It is scary, heroic, mysterious, and sad. What better way to describe Batman.

Batman (1989). Perhaps you've heard of it?

Smh HCShannon.

Your wish is half granted.

Bob Kane co-created Batman. I cringe that Bill Finger isn't mentioned. You can say a lot of horrible things about Kane, and most of them would probably be true. But let's not pretend Bob Kane had absolutely nothing to do with Batman. He came up with the name. He actually drew Detective Comics #27 and was pretty much the editor of Batman from there on out.

I think it was pretty much the name of the character and the premise of a rich guy who becomes a masked avenger at night that are the only contributions to the character. And a lot of early art of course. But almost everything else is Bill Finger and to a slightly lesser extent Jerry Robinson. There's slight disputes over who created the Joker but I think it's safe to say it was Robinson. I'm not telling you anything you don't know I'm just kind of commiserating with you like,sucks doesn't it? I find it weird that with Batman it's the writer who is often forgotten but with Spider-Man it's the artist. It kind of shows what the strong points of each company were at the time,Marvel(timely?) always emphasized writing over art. Though they had Kirby so what do I know?

I find it even stranger that he's taking credit for creating the Joker in this interview, considering he didn't come up with that character.

yeah that was finger and jack... something or other lol the name escapes me and im to lazy to google lol

Adam, you are right that he drew, but his idea was originally called birdman and he had a red costume, then finger changed it to batman, came up with all the names, bruce's origin, and most of the early versions were him as well. kane was a great sales man but when he pitched it he got the credit. at the time that was common and not thought of as bad. but as time went on and the other early creators were telling people about there teams kane just passively mentioned fingers name and said "Im the creator of batman". there is a great pod cast kevin smith does called fatman on batman. there is a ton of great interviews and they did a whole episode on finger and why things went the way they did. he wasn't totally innocent either. he never spoke up for him self

Yes at the scoring session, conducting the orchestra for the film.